James Forman Jr — Judges — Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

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Defendants are regularly condemned to years, decades, or life in prison for minor infractions because of minimum sentencing statutes. If judges had more discretion in sentencing, then sentences could be more proportional to the crime, more specific to the individual defendant, and minimize the negative impact of minimum sentencing laws without inherently needing those laws repealed.

Opinion: The Democratic Candidates Should Tell Us Now Who They’ll Put on the Supreme Court

“There is no shortage of quality names. High on my list would be Bryan Stevenson, a career death penalty opponent, consummate Supreme Court litigator and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama. Or Michelle Alexander, former law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun, civil rights lawyer and author of the canonical “The New Jim Crow.” (Ms. Alexander is also an opinion columnist for The New York Times.) Or Sherrilyn Ifill, a voting rights expert and head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the civil rights firm founded by Thurgood Marshall in 1940.“

New York Times

March 10, 2019

JudgesPhillip ReevesMarch 10, 2019New York Times, James Forman Jr, Bryan Stevenson, Michelle Alexander, Sherrilyn IfillComment

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