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In March 1962, the body of 15-year-old Marlene Miller was found dumped in an irrigation ditch behind her home, a pair of scissors embedded in her throat, her shorts and underpants slit open. Within hours police arrested Booker T. Hillery Jr., a local black ranch hand already on...
Then began the sort of unremitting and tortuous legal battle that leads critics to complain that justice is never final in the U.S., while admirers say that justice is never prematurely closed off. Twice Hillery's sentence was thrown out by the California Supreme Court because of irregularities in the...
About 70 students, some of them undergraduates, give time to the project, which was founded in 1970 and gets funds for an office manager, supervising attorney, and other expenses from the Law School. Every month PLAP members represent about 25 indigent prison and jail inmates at disciplinary, classification, and parole...
Finkelstein says undergraduates are not allowed to handle disciplinary hearings, but can represent inmates at parole recission and revocation hearings. "At first [being an undergraduate] was really weird. Everyone assumes you're a law student," Finkelstein says. But she says that PLAP has allowed her to be on the board...
When the eager fans reached the center, tuxedoed U.S. marshals escorted them to an upstairs room. Playing on a giant screen were videotapes of the Redskins' 1983 Super Bowl victory. Deputy Marshal Louis McKinney, wearing top hat and tails, greeted the guests, then announced: "We have one big surprise for...