Julian Jefferson, a staff attorney in the New Hampshire Public Defenders' office, has represented victims of racism and experienced it firsthand. “I am a Black man,” he said in his testimony before the Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community and Transparency. “I have lived in New Hampshire since 2008. I have been working in the criminal justice system since 2011. I can tell you that racism exists in this state and in our criminal justice system.” Jefferson, who also served on the commission, described a litany of racially charged personal experiences and client prosecutions he’s had to defend. “I have defended three different clients in cases where police used excessive force and then turned around, with the complicity of prosecutors, to overcharge cases. Thankfully for those clients, the citizens that served on their juries saw the excessive use of force for what it was,” he testified.