Reprinted from the SF Examiner, February 18, 2005
By Jeff Adachi
Last week, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants published an extensive report on the quality of legal representation for the poor in criminal cases. The report exposes an underbelly of the justice system that is rarely seen on television shows [...]
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Broken Justice
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