Remarks on the State of Public Defense – by LA’s Public Defender
By Ricardo Garcia Editor’s note: the following are the comments delivered by Ricardo Garcia at the ARC…
By Ricardo Garcia Editor’s note: the following are the comments delivered by Ricardo Garcia at the ARC…
Special to the Vanguard Harrisburg, PA – The ACLU of Pennsylvania on Thursday announced they are suing…
Riverside is the only CA county to completely disregard public records requests related to indigent defense Special…
This week on Everyday Injustice we feature legendary attorney Stephen Bright and James Kwak who just released…
This week on Everyday Injustice features Jon B. Gould, the Dean of UC Irvine school of Social…
In Everyday Injustice’s second installment with Marc Bookman, we discuss the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation—a non-profit…
Four out of five criminal defendants can’t afford a lawyer, but in many places, the system promised…
by Jeffrey Deskovic – Contrasts In Justice Between Rich And Poor – “Looking back” will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as well as across the country and not simply applicable to NY.
In February of 2019, longtime legendary public defender Jeff Adachi died. Taking over the position as the…
By Vaidya Gullapalli Fifteen years ago, people arrested and charged in Hampden County, Massachusetts, but unable to…
It was one of the shortcomings of his 2016 campaign, but it is a shortcoming no more…
By Kamala Harris As a former prosecutor and attorney general of California, I saw our legal system…
By Kanya Bennett and Ezekiel Edwards On May 8, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) elevated the crisis of…
By Jason D. Williamson Innocent unless proven guilty… These words are the bedrock of our criminal justice…
The protests and police shootings in Ferguson and Staten Island have focused on the disproportionate black and…