Crime and Ugly Don’t Mix
From Suzanne Fields’ column via Townhall.com:
. . . researchers asked 96 volunteers to read a transcript of a fictitious mugging case, look at a photograph of the defendant, and render a verdict. All the mock jurors got the same transcript, but half got a photograph of an “ugly” defendant and half a photograph of an “attractive” defendant. Jurors who voted “guilty” were asked to pass sentence. More jurors voted to acquit the attractive defendant than the ugly one, and even when guilty, the attractive defendant got a lighter sentence.
