Tues 1.06.09| Test Cases

Abbe Smith, Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

How many incompetently represented people get convicted, or even executed? In the volume We Dissent, Abbe Smith describes what's happened to poor people's access to effective legal representation. And Michael Risher of the ACLU talks about federal rules, to take effect Friday, that direct the collection and databanking of DNA samples from innocent people.

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