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...policy change is currently under review at the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) that would prohibit all first-year and some second-year students in Harvard’s Prison Legal Assistance Program from representing prisoners in court...
...policy, known as Rule 303, has been part of the Supreme Judicial Court’s program for many years, but in the past it has not been applied to PLAP. According to DOC spokesperson Justin Latini, in the course of a routine review 18 months ago the DOC began deliberating over whether to apply the rule to Harvard Law School...
Officials at the DOC are concerned that first and second-year students do not have enough experience with law to be able to adequately represent clients. Latini said that limiting the pool of participants in PLAP mostly to third-year students would protect prisoners from inexperienced advocates...
...nice to hear Vice President Dick Cheney gloating that he has "a doc with me 24 hours a day" [VERBATIM, May 19]. It should be mighty encouraging to the U.S.'s uncounted millions of uninsured workers to know that their withholding taxes are helping pay for Cheney's round-the-clock medical care, even though these workers couldn't pry their way into their own doctor's office with a crowbar. Isn't there anything that would shame this rich-get-richer, poor-get-poorer Administration? Apparently not. GLENN HODGES Memphis, Tenn...
...doc with me 24 hours a day who watches me carefully. There's one outside there now." DICK CHENEY, Vice President, trying to allay concerns about his health, after announcing he would be Bush's running mate...