The Georgia Supreme Court decided Monday to consider throwing out a criminal conviction based on “opinion testimony about cultural characteristics of an ethnic group.” The defense contends the matter has broad implications. The prosecution argues the entire appeal is misleading.

Hall County Assistant Public Defender Matthew P. Cavedon—who persuaded the high court to take the case—said the issue at stake has broad implications. He has asked the court to “hold that negative ethnic stereotypes are mere empty slanders, not signs of truth rationally based on perceptions of different ethnic groups in our society.”

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