Criminal Defense

Cash-Strapped

USA Today | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Civil Court, Legal Services, Criminal Defense, Poverty, Budget Cuts, Criminal Justice System, Economic Disparities, Criminal Justice, Legal Aid, Black Voices News

JACKSON, Miss. – Programs that provide free legal aid to the poor are laying off employees, cutting services and increasingly turning away people wh...

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Mob Mentality

Andrea Lyon | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Criminal Defense, Death Penalty, Criminal Justice, Caylee Anthony, Casey Anthony, Casey Anthony Trial, Crime News
Andrea Lyon

What is troubling is the public's fascination with the Casey Anthony case, the need to make her a villain, and how the media have helped feed the mob mentality.

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Radley Balko

A Letter Of Thanks From Cory Maye

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 09.01.2011

Read More: Criminal Defense, Death Row, Mississippi, Drug War, Criminal Justice System, Cory Maye, Racism, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Politics News

Cory Maye, the man sentenced to death in 2004 for shooting and killing a police officer during a during a botched drug raid in 2001, agreed to a plea ...

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Gov. Barbour Must Free Scott Sisters Serving Life for 11 Dollar Robbery

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Incarceration, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Criminal Defense, Criminal Justice, Drugs, Gladys and Jamie Scott, War on Drugs, Politics News
Anthony Papa

For those like the Scott sisters who have fallen through the cracks of the cruel criminal justice system, their only hope to regain their freedom is through public pressure on elected officials.

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Supreme Court Ruling Speaks of a New Kind of Public Defense

Robin Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, US Supreme Court, Criminal Justice, Public Defender, Criminal Defense, Immigrants, Deportation, New York News
Robin Steinberg

In a single bold stroke last week, the Supreme Court redefined what criminal defense should be.

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