Breaking the Frame: Responding to Gang Stereotyping in Capital Cases

[...]not all gangs are the same and not all gang affiliations are the same. [...]Part II of this Article offers a study of the case of Patrick Stout, a young man convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Shelby County, Tennessee, largely due to the prejudicial effect of misleading and unexplained gang evidence.7 Part HI of this Article discusses how jurors are powerfully inclined to view the evidence in a gang-related case according to their pre-existing, biased personal frames of reference for understanding gangs and offers a potential solution to address the problem.