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Congrats to this year?s Gruber Justice Prize

By cdw

Congrats to Bryan Stevenson, this year’s Gruber Justice Prize winner. The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation announced it was awarding the prize to Stevenson and to the European Roma Rights Center. The two winners will split the award’s $500,000 cash prize. Stevenson is founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery and is mostly known for representing death row inmates, often during the final stages of their appeals. Stevenson said the prize will go into the budget of the Equal Justice Initiative, which he said lost a source of funding when a major donor lost money in the investments of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff. A release from the Gruber Foundation said Stevenson and his staff had been responsible “for reversals and reduced sentences in more than 75 death penalty cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).