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CT: Criminal Defense Attorney Suggests a Different Kind of Background for Supreme Court Justice

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Pattis Helps Out Senators New Haven Independent by Melinda Tuhus | May 4, 2009 A New Haven criminal defense attorney posed the first question for the potential next U.S. Supreme Court justice. Norm Pattis posed the question not at a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing, but during the closing panel Saturday of a conference called Tools for Ending the Drug War. The event was sponsored by People Against Injustice, a local criminal justice reform group, at Dwight Chapel on the Yale campus. ?Here?s my proposal,? Pattis said. ?When the U.S. Senate vets the next appointee for the U.S. Supreme Court [to replace Justice David Souter, who?s retiring], do not confirm any person who cannot answer in the affirmative the following question: ?Have you ever represented a human being in turmoil who made less than the median family income in this country?? ?If you look at everyone whose name is being circulated, there?s probably not a single person who could answer that question in the affirmative...continue to full post

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