A defense attorney emphasizes to a jury that her client works full-time, supports his family, and enjoys leisure-time hobbies. A
lthough none of this information is relevant to the trial, it is designed to make the defendant appear to be a typical member of the local community. The lawyer is most clearly attempting to take advantage of:
When we want to make our case or make a decision but we don't have enough resources available to us or enough information we take a short cut and we use our pre-existing information to make judgements.
The representativeness heuristic is when we make estimations based on the likelihood that the current event can relate to our pre-existing infomation.
For example this defense attorney uses what he already knows about his client to make assumptions that represent what he doesn't know for sure about him. A defense attorney emphasizes to a jury that her client works full-time, supports his family, and enjoys leisure-time hobbies. Using this existing information the attorney has then concluded that this means his client is a typical member of the community ; which may not be true but he used what was available information to try and convince the case in his client's favor.
These codes would restrain the rights of the African Americans who were recently freed from slavery. The idea was to create a false sense of liberty and equal rights, but in the practices that we saw it was the African Americans working with low wages and no rights to support their lives. The Black Codes were a response to the Civil War that resulted in several political and economical issues for the South.
