Too Poor to Receive a Fair Trial [IS]
April 12, 2013Today is the 50th Anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the 1963 Supreme Court decision that ensures that every person charged with a crime is entitled to an attorney even if he/she cannot afford one.
How does the promise of Gideon hold up a half century after the ruling?
Guests:
Roopal Patel, Fellow at the Brennan Center’s Justice Program and former attorney with the Department of Justice
Jonathan Rapping, President/Founder of the Southern Public Defender Training Center and Director of Criminal Justice Program at John Marshall Law School
Karen Houppert, Journalist and Author of Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice
Andrew Ferguson, Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia and former public defender
David Carroll, Executive Director of the Sixth Amendment Center
Avis Buchanan, Director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
Dysfunctional Washington [RC]
April 12, 2013The cherry blossoms are blooming and Washington is typically dysfunctional.
Race and the Republican Party [NV]
April 10, 2013What Rand Paul’s Speech at Howard University tells us about race and the Republican Party.
Stop Institutional Child Abuse! [IS]
April 5, 2013httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MIt_2ldyjw
Survivors speak out.
To stop this abuse, call your Member of Congress at 202-225-3121 and ask them to support the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2013.
[The video periodically goes out occasionally, including at the outset of the show for two minutes. But don’t worry. More than 95% of the show is shown on video.]
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