OJ Simpson, a black man, was acquitted by a jury composed almost entirely of African Americans. The victims were white. Much discussion of how money buys verdicts or justice or whatever the hell happened that led a jury of supposed peers to vote not guilty.
Along the way, he memorably made plans to fetch his memorabilia by force. News of this poor decision did not stay in Vegas, but OJ did. 
Then white Casey Anthony was accused of killing her baby, and then partying down and dancing the night away etc.
A Jury must have bought the she was molested by her poor father, George. That's what that team of top lawyers was paid to do. Sure Casey was no millionaire,but the publicity that such a case would generate would be well worth the initial financial insecurity of the team of lawyers that signed on.
She famously and posthaste posthumously got a Bella Vita tattoo. She was spared having to get a prison tattoo saying "life is shit." But, is her post acquittal life beautiful?
It was likely a combination of the best that money can buy, or the most tricky and unethical that money can buy. In OJ Simpson's case limitless money and that particular jury's hard earned perspective: Judge, cops, and prosecutors were there for reasons that had little or nothing to do with heady concepts such as truth, law, or justice.
They might not have known the intricacies of why that was so, since very few of us do, but they witnessed enough to know it without a reasonable doubt. Had OJ been even upper middle class, the costs of defending against a murder charge ,would either force him to plea, or end up with a lousy private attorney, or a public defender who would suffer career setback, or worse, if the advocacy given compromised the coffers in which he drew his paycheck.
Day in and day out men go to death row because the state's resources vs. their resources are no match. Along the way, we hear little of half day trials on death penalty cases, and lawyers who fall asleep in death penalty cases. This leaves the ignorant by design public with the very wrong impression --that the system is stacked to protect the rights of the accused, and victims of crime are left out in the cold. How very wrong is that assessment, must be the subject of a future post.
We hear little of how DNA has exonerated many of these adjudged guilty, at trials,and we hear little about the steps and characters, along the way, that stacked the decks against innocent men and women, both white and African American.
Many years later , the alleged perpetrator, George Zimmerman is labeled white despite a Hispanic mother, and the alleged victim is black. Despite us all bearing witness to the suspiciously lackluster performance of the prosecution, and the impressively slick and thorough performance of the defense, the "dialogue" has been hijacked to be about gun laws or race when it should be about how the prosecution's hands were tied by the likes of an Angela Corey, and tried by the likes of Bernie De La Rionda. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/04/07/corruptocrats-more-state-attorneys-office-resignations-after-angela-corey-and-bernie-de-la-rionda-use-department-operating-funds-to-pad-their-retirement-accounts/
Also the story that is emerging about the fired IT director.
It's strikes me that the greatest enemy of black men is the corrupted legal system. The same system that provides fresh meat to grind into the highly lucrative prison industrial complex. Let's not get into the mad money made by companies that supply anger management classes, and how much profit there is in probation and parole "services."
Police quotas, and conviction rates that lead to demotion, or promotion have made African Americans an easy target. Anyone who can't afford the likes of O'mara and West are easy targets. Same for prosecutors. They are ruled by power or profit incentives --not by truth seeking or justice assuring considerations. There are exceptions, but most likely those exceptions are fired and discredited exceptions-- as long the culture of the prosecutors office is all about conviction means job advancement.
Judges don't benefit from the poor or middle class's support much cause he public rarely bother to vote for judges, but judge do count on the votes of police unions, The defense bar, and prosecutors of all kinds.
It's cliché to say, but the only color that is seen in the legal system, is green. Or, if power, prestige, perks, were to have colors, those colors too.
Illustrations @Lauren Spitzberg