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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 wasn't right and i vowed to, you know, to change. >> by 15 stevens was on his own. >> i've experienced most of the statistics that surround foster care. again, i've 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 kids in the child welfare system. he founded underdog dream which helps foster children with their ...

This is how Brad Stevens can win with the Celtics as he moves from head coach to President of Basketball Operations.

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. >> that's an incredible change of mind, and it shows stevens' willingness to re-examine his premise in light of the fact. what's extraordinary about that confession is he connected his growing belief that the death penalty was unconstitutional with his own youthful experience of his father being unjustly indicted in a f...

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. >> that's 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 dissents and concurrence. he filed more than any other justice during his tenure on the court. that's w...

>> 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 people's 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. >> that's exactly right. it's really interesting to contrast his view with that of chief justice roberts which he did during that interview. he has said the court's institutional...