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Defending a Terror Suspect
Since the capture and arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (pictured on the left at his high school graduation in Cambridge, Massachusetts), the college sophomore charged with the Boston Marathon bombing, I...
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Closing the Widening Net: The Rights of Juveniles at Intake
Should juveniles have more, fewer, the same or different procedural rights than are accorded to adults? This question, posed by Professor Arnold Loewy for a panel at the 2013 Texas Tech Law Review...
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The Poor are Still Losing: Gideon’s Empty Promise
This past weekend I spent some time thinking about the future of indigent public defense and what role, if any, defense lawyers can play in a system beset by racism and classism. First, I read a...
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U.S. Dept. of Justice Focuses on Juvenile Justice
By Kevin Lapp, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School-Los Angeles The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has recently been focusing some significant attention on the...
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Right to Counsel in Nonpayment Hearings
In my last post, I discussed the phenomenon that I call “the new peonage,” in which criminal justice debt creates a two-tiered system of justice in our juvenile and criminal courtrooms. One of my...
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