"A groundbreaking book . . . revealing the systemic, everyday
problems in our courts that must be addressed if justice is truly
to be served."--Doris Kearns Goodwin
Attorney and journalist Amy Bach spent eight years investigating
the widespread courtroom failures that each day upend lives across
America. What she found was an assembly-line approach to justice: a
system that rewards mediocre advocacy, bypasses due process, and
shortchanges both defendants and victims to keep the court calendar
moving.
Here is the public defender who pleads most of his clients
guilty with scant knowledge about their circumstances; the judge
who sets outrageous bail for negligible crimes; the prosecutor who
habitually declines to pursue significant cases; the court that
works together to achieve a wrongful conviction. Going beyond the
usual explanations of bad apples and meager funding, "Ordinary
Injustice" reveals a clubby legal culture of compromise, and shows
the tragic consequences that result when communities mistake the
rules that lawyers play by for the rule of law. It is time, Bach
argues, to institute a new method of checks and balances that will
make injustice visible--the first and necessary step to reform.
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