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"From Error Toward Quality: A Federal Role in Support of Criminal Process"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of the latest issue brief from the folks at the American Constitution Society dealing with criminal justice matters.  This issue brief can be accessed here, where this overview can also be found: ACS is pleased to distribute ?From Error Toward Quality: A Federal Role in Support of Criminal Process,?, an Issue Brief by James M. Doyle.  Mr. Doyle is a lawyer in private practice with the Boston law firm of Carney & Bassil and the former head of the Public Defender Division of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, which is the statewide public defender agency. Mr. Doyle begins his Issue Brief by observing that ?[c]ontemporary medicine is experiencing a vibrant quality reform movement born in the aftermath of horrific reports of fatal medical errors...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).