No money, no justice: do public defenders deserve scorn, or bigger budgets?
Reason › Vol. 39 Nbr. 7, December 2007
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Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office - Book review
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No money, no justice: do public defenders deserve scorn, or bigger budgets?
Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office, by Kevin Davis, New York: Atria Books, 308 pages, $25
ADVANCED DNA testing has compelled America to confront some uncomfortable truths about its criminal justice system. In 2000 Illinois Gov. Jim Ryan imposed a moratorium on executions in his state after DNA tests exonerated 13 death row inmates, several of whom had come perilously close to their execution dates. In March 2007, the noted defense attorney Barry Scheck's Innocence Project, which uses DNA testing to identify the wrongfully convicted, marked its 200th exonerat...See the full content of this document
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