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Participatory defense could involve families and communities in criminal trials

By Hicbd
Wed Aug 7 2019 9:18 am

"The strategy was really to apply community organizing principles to the criminal defense process. But this meant much more than petitioning outside courtrooms: it meant tapping into any and all human capital that could influence case outcomes – a kind of legal crowdsourcing that can re-balance the scales in a system heavily favoring district attorney’s offices."

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https://www.ashoka.org/en-US/fellow/raj-jayadev
https://acjusticeproject.org/about/purpose-and-practice/

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U.S. Criminal Justice System U.S. Prisons Public Defender Offices Criminal Trials

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