Public Defender answers your questions about Criminal Justice in America

Описание: Former public defender and author of THE PRICE OF MERCY, Emily Galvin Almanza, answers 4 burning questions about public defenders, criminal justice, and what we can do to create a fairer criminal court system in America.

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ABOUT THE PRICE OF MERCY

A former public defender takes us behind the closed doors of America’s criminal courts, revealing how the institutions that claim to protect us are doing the exact opposite—and offering a blueprint for finally fixing it.

“A searing, compassionate, and utterly necessary book that pulls back the curtain with the clarity of a lawyer and the heart of someone who’s seen the criminal legal system’s devastating consequences up close.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

As Americans, we are told a rose-tinted story about our criminal courts—that these are the hallowed halls of justice, that the purpose of our legal process is to find the truth, and that those who enforce the law are both equitable and heroic. But what if the reality is purposefully obscured to hide something rotten at the system’s core?

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REFERENCES FOR SOME STATISTICS CITED IN THIS VIDEO (MORE DETAIL IS IN "THE PRICE OF MERCY"):

False confession rates among young children:

Crane, Megan, Nirider, Laura, and Steven A. Drizin. (2016). The Truth About Juvenile False Confessions. Insights on Law & Society 16(2): 10–15.

Gross, Samuel R., and Michael Shaffer. 2012. “Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2012: Report by the National Registry of Exonerations.” The National Registry of Exonerations.

Aroni Krinsky, Miriam and Norman L. Reimer. 2022. “Children deserve protections that too many aren't getting in the US justice system.” USA Today, March 8, 2022.

National Registry of Exonerations. n.d. “Age and mental status of exonerated defendants who confessed.”

Breakdown of State and/or Local Charges of incarcerated individuals:

The number of people incarcerated in federal prisons and jails (208,000) was divided by the total number of incarcerated people (1,935,000). Sawyer, Wendy and Peter Wagner. 2024.”Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2024.” Prison Policy Initiative, March 14, 2024.

Percentage of forensic scientists that work for police:

Gilbert, L. (2013). Sharpening the Tools of an Adequate Defense: Providing for the Appointment of Experts for Indigent Defendants in Child Death Cases Under Ake v. Oklahoma. San Diego Law Review, 50 (2), 469-515.

DiFonzo, J. Herbie. 2005. “The Crimes of Crime Labs.” Hofstra Law Review 34(1): 1-11. ; Groscup, J.L., Studebaker, C.A., Penrod, S.D., Huss, M.T., & O’Neil, K.M. (2002). The Effects of Daubert on the Admissibility of Expert Testimony in State and Federal Criminal Cases. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 8(4), 339-372.

Breakdown of people receiving a public defender:

Wolf Harlow, Caroline. 2000. “Defense Counsel in Criminal Cases.” Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ 179023.

Office of Justice. 2011. “Indigent Defense.”

Breakdown of people in jail and what they were accused of:

Zeng, Zhen. 2023. “Jail Inmates in 2022-Statistical Tables.” Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ 307086.

Breakdown of convicted that plead guilty:

Schwartzapfel, Beth, VanSickle, Abbie and Annaliese Griffin. 2020. “The Truth About Trials.” The Marshall Project, November 4, 2020.

United States Sentencing Commission. 2018. 2018 Annual Report and Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics.

Gramlich, John. 2023. “Fewer than 1% of federal criminal defendants were acquitted in 2022.” Pew Research Center, June 14, 2023.

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