Access to Justice

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2023

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Could This Case Help Upend The Death Penalty In Oklahoma?

By Jack Karp

Convicted murderer Richard Glossip is set to be executed in Oklahoma next month, but doubts about his guilt and allegations of police incompetence and prosecutorial misconduct are leading some in the state to reconsider not just his case but the death penalty itself.

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Crowell & Moring Takes Murder Conviction Fight To Justices

By Andrea Keckley

Following a recent setback before a federal appeals court in their nearly 15-year fight to clear a Florida man of murder charges, a team of Crowell & Moring LLP attorneys is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to side with claims that prosecutors withheld key evidence in their client's case.

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Pro Bono Spotlight

Latham, Davis Polk Help Free Domestic Violence Survivor

By Kevin Penton

Jacqueline Smalls had two active orders of protection against her physically abusive boyfriend when she said he entered her Schenectady, New York, home in 2012. Fearing for her life, she fatally stabbed him.

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Panel Urges Legal Reformers To Include Community Groups

By Sarah Martinson

Lawyers and judges need to include consumers and community-based organizations in their design- and decision-making process for implementing legal regulatory reform, according to a panel at the Legal Services Corp.'s Innovations in Technology Conference on Friday.

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Panel Urges Landlord, Court Collaboration To Divert Evictions

By Emma Whitford

The success of any court-based program aimed at slowing down or preventing evictions depends on strategic communication with landlords and courts, in addition to tenants, according to a recent panel on eviction diversion programs across the country.

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Remote Proceedings Can Improve Justice In Rural Areas

By Sarah Martinson

Courts should embrace remote proceedings to improve access to justice in rural communities because participants don't have to drive hours to a courthouse, take time off work or arrange child care, according to a virtual panel hosted by the National Center for State Courts.

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Perspectives

War On Drugs Is Cautionary Tale For Abortion Prosecution

As state abortion bans proliferate, prosecutors have an obligation to learn from the devastating lessons of the war on drugs — which disproportionately affected communities of color — and vow not to prosecute individuals’ reproductive health care-related decisions, says Dekalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston.

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