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Since the beginning of this week, Davey has become a recognizable face to law students and professors alike, according to Emily D. Zimmer, Davey’s friend and a fellow first-year...
...Supreme Court justices deliberate his case, Harvard Law School (HLS) first-year Joshua D. Davey has reached near-celebrity status on campus...
...their legal rights, and law students who are given the chance to apply their legal studies to real world problems. While the program is widely acclaimed as a success, its viability was recently put in jeopardy when the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) decided to consider prohibiting all first-year and some second-year students from participation. These students make up the vast majority of PLAP participants and this decision will severely undermine the organization’s ability to provide this service...
...allowing HLS first-years to participate, the DOC will undermine PLAP’s ability to provide legal advocates for inmates—leaving the prisoners with no legal representation in these hearings. Given that these hearings can touch on controversial issues such as civil rights violations and assault charges, and considering the dubious nature of the policy change, it is possible that the DOC is using this new policy to silence prisoners and weaken their ability to assert their legal rights. While we can only hope this is not the case, no reasonable motivation for making the change...
...many of his friends and classmates are aware of the suit, Davey says. Friend Emily D. Zimmer, also a first-year at HLS, says Davey’s case gives a rare personal connection to significant national litigation...