An Analysis
Was it an accident or a murder? Was it suicide or negligent homicide? Should a man who first claimed that a man he killed committed suicide be allowed to get off easy by pleading guilty on a lesser charge that could result in him being a free man in three years?
That’s the decision that 4th District Judge Marcus Hunter will have to make next week when he has to decide 19-year-old Andre D. Lewis’s future.
At the core of African-Americans’ issue is whether murders committed by blacks against other blacks, especially those not “connected,” are prosecuted w…