Sonia Sotomayor

“ After inquiring about the statistical factors of past crimes and age and how they might indicate future dangerousness in Buck's case, the prosecutor said: "You have determined that the sex factor, that a male is more violent than a female because that's just the way it is, and that the race factor, black, increases the future dangerousness for various complicated reasons; is that correct?" Id., at 160. Quijano answered, "Yes." Ibid. After additional cross-examination and testimony from a subsequent witness, the prosecutor argued to the jury in summation that ”

“ There is an over-representation of Blacks among the violent offenders." Defense Exh. 1 in No. 699684 (208th Jud. Dist., Harris Cty., Tex.) , p. 7.
page 3, slip opinion Quijano "told you that there was a probability that [Buck] would commit future acts of violence." Id., at 260. The jury returned a verdict of death.
This was not the first time that Quijano had testified in a Texas capital case, or in which the prosecution asked him questions regarding the relationship between race and future dangerousness. State prosecutors had elicited comparable testimony from Quijano in several other cases. ”