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Stevens bounced from foster home to to realize the system need some serious improvement. >> at the age of 7, i knew something wasnt right and i vowed to, you know, to change. >> by 15 stevens was on his own. >> ive experienced most of the statistics that surround foster care. again, ive been lucky enough and worked hard enough and had the right relationships in place to be able to get on the other side of foster care. >> 20 years later, stevens is a licensed social worker and an advocate for kid...

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I am now convinced that the very real risk that an innocent person may be put to death in such a case, provides a sufficient reason for ending that form of punishment. i do not recall that risk as having been mentioned by anyone during the arguments in 1976. tell me about this. >> thats an incredible change of mind, and it shows stevens willingness to re-examine his premise in light of the fact. whats extraordinary about that confession is he connected his growing belief that the death penalty w...

Penalty. >> you mentioned in a piece you wrote about him that stevens was deeply transparent about his decisions and why he held the opinions he did. >> thats another thing that he took from his experience in chicago. he was appointed to head a commission to investigate corruption. he found that a judge had actually suppressed a dissent that was going to blow the whistle on colleagues who were guilty corruption. that experience convinced him that he had an obligation always to file separate diss...

>> it was all part of stevens belief that judges had the obligation to be transparent so the public could make up their own mind. >> so he tied that to the reputation of the court and peoples faith in the court. where some might think that a strict interpretation of the law or whatever your interpretation of the law is primary. he had a sense that what people feel about the court was actually particularly important. >> thats exactly right. its really interesting to contrast his view with that of...

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Last week, awful things our cat stevens made it into the ro rock and roll hall of fame. now stevens became islam in 1978 after converting to his last name and the hall of fame praised change. who can measure the courage it took him in the late 70s to convert to islam, amitt the wave of turmoil and confusion that was end golfing the world? the ie atold la wanted rushdie dead. the hall of frame praises a