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With that authority. My family paid a lawyer to fight my case and throughout my whole case this lawyer didnt investigate, he didnt go to the crime scene, he didnt subpoena witnesses. None of that. Even with the homicide inspectors knew about the crime, they knew somebody else committed the crime but due to my character and my uprising, i was the one to take the fall for it. Once you are convicted of a crime. Its almost impossible to get it reversed. How did you do that . Hope. You know in societ...

Temporary salaries and that has been resolved such that those positions have been eliminated. So, there actually is a loss of five positions thats reflected here. In terms of the work load of our office, our Largest Division which involves felony cases, we handled in this fiscal year 8,6 12 felony cases. Our average annual caseload per attorney is 196. Now, in our profession, we look to whats called the nac, American Bar Association standards. Thats the National Advisory commission. These standa...

Law school where he teaches law and criminal procedure. He was in the post katrina and new orleans center. He trained people in the film. He received an advocacy fellowship and named a Public Interest fellow by harvard law school. Next we have maurice call well. He was convicted in the Housing Project here in San Francisco. There was no physical evidence linking him to the crime yet he was still convicted based on the false testimony of a single neighbor. He was sentence to life behind bars. In ...

Right to your left here and introduce karen hooper, the author of chasing gideon and i just want to announce that she will be holding a book signing. The book came out yesterday. She will have a book signing during lunch. Next is don porter, the producer of gideons army. The clip we just saw. Don is a founder of Trilogy Films and director of gideons army. It premiered in the 2010 sundance festival. Shes an a shes on the 2012 hot shot directors emerging to watch, shes also graduated from Georgeto...

Can you tell us about your personal story . My personal story came in 1991. I was convicted of Second Degree murder of shooting into an occupied car and attempted murder. It all erupted from the area i was from. I was from the projects in San Francisco off the i forgot the highway, but i was a very interesting person of character from that projects. I was no angel but no killer. Several different individual officers that brought me to the interest of a Murder Investigation. They put me right in ...

The world everyday and you dont realize it because you are caught up in this wrath of injustice. Part of it is supporting the public defenders to advocate with stories to try to get the resources that we need and to ultimately build a movement where the voices are too loud. You cant ignore the voices saying. Remember what gideon said, this is a civil rights issue and we need to shame the country into stepping up to the plate. If anyone wants to learn more about gideons promise i have borrow broc...

Was like it was overwhelming and every time i got in contact with somebody that i thought could help me or even interest in my case there was hope. If i can write a letter to a person and they can listen and read my letter that was hope to me that maybe they can react and even write me back. So in prison, it was like, without hope in prison, and without, i wanted to say something. I jumped around. I want to say, jeff, the Public Defenders Office was something that really helped me because it was...

Interviewed. I had a lawyer, even some of the public defenders, i went with a lawyer that wasnt going to just sit down with the truth. I wanted someone who was going to get in a courtroom. I needed somebody with that authority. My family paid a lawyer to fight my case and throughout my whole case this lawyer didnt investigate, he didnt go to the crime scene, he didnt subpoena witnesses. None of that. Even with the homicide inspectors knew about the crime, they knew somebody else committed the cr...

[ applause ] linda star is the legal and cofounding in the santa clara law, law center clerk received her ph. D. She wrote and argued post conviction matters in state and federal court and supervisor in the sex crimes unit. She worked as a staff attorney in the 56 Appellate Court and now works on appeals. From a prosecutor to now an defender. Welcome. Now we have a senior partner, named one of the top trial lawyers in the united states. Hes a lion of the trial bar. I have known him for many many...

Sworn in in the white house blue room by chief Justice John Roberts. Msnbc will bring special live coverage of the moment. Normally, for a reelected president , it is the time to begin thinking of a legacy. Having to run for reelection, the president is free to pursue the agenda that will enshrine him. Among americas greats were abe lincoln and thomas jefferson. For this u. S. President , the first africanamerican ever elected to the office, the historical legacy has already been written before ...