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...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...
...could have a first-year that hasn’t even taken Criminology 101 walk in in October and represent themselves as a law student,” Latini said. “If someone says they’re a law student, especially if they’re coming in to represent, [one] would think they were pretty versed...
...acknowledges that the new rule would make significantly less representation available for inmates. But Latini said that he hoped the schools could adjust...
...would hope that schools would be able to provide the inmates with representatives,” Latini said. “If part of their program is to assist, that would be part of their program. We can’t set their criteria for them...