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A Shaming By Stephen Bright

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

You know Stephen Bright? He's head of the Southern Center for Human Rights, and a few other things. He was invited to speak this year at the Civil/Criminal Lawyers luncheon at the Florida Bar Meeting. I don't think the civil lawyers, or the prosecutors or judges there knew what was about to happen.He spoke as if he was amongst friends, or that he didn't care if he wasn't.He said he almost never gets relief for his death penalty clients when he is before elected judges. He said, out loud, in front of a few elected judges, that this is because elected judges are thinking not about the next case, but the next election.He said the indigent defense system in this country is a disgrace, and that judges and prosecutors not only watch it happen, but use it to their advantage...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).