Yep, I was just exposed to such an example of this. I couple of weeks ago I went to a continuing legal education seminar that included one of the attorneys who represented Richard Scrushy in the HealthSouth fraud prosecution. The stories that were coming out during the trial suggested that Scrushy's attorneys (the lead defense attorneys were black) were pandering to the black jurors. The stories really seemed bizzare in that Scrushy is white. Then, when the verdict came back "not guilty" the press blamed the "uneducated black jurors" and the pandering. If anyone is interested in this case they can access ALL the government's evidence. Out of over 1 million documents confiscated by the government NOT ONE linked Scrushy to the fraud. During the trial, the prosecution leaked the fact that it had sent in a high-ranking corporate officer with a wire to get admissions from Scrushy on tape. When the tapes were played at trial the conversations revealed that Scrushy was oblivious to the company's books being fixed. Several of the board members were indicted and most were convicted EXCEPT for the guy who the gov't sent in to tape Scrushy. It turned out that this guy was the mastermind behind the fraud. The board members and upper management involved cooked the books to inflate the stock then sold their stock options. Scrushy never sold his. In other words, he never personally profited from the fraud. Scrushy was trying to court a buyer for his company at the time and the board and upper management were fighting him on it because they knew that the potential buyer would come in and examine the books. I found it hard to believe that Scrushy didn't know what was going on until I heard this summary of the evidence that was never reported. There are still editorials with racial overtones in Alabama papers saying that Scrushy should be retried.