A Step Toward Equal Justice Under Law; The Case for a Defender General

The Department of Justice and the Solicitor General's office represent the United States government in criminal cases in the Supreme Court. But there is no similar office that represents criminal defendants before or in the Supreme Court. Does this absence raise an impediment to equal justice under law? A good case for a Defender General's office is made by two law professors, Daniel Epps of the Washington University School of Law and William Ortman at Wayne State University, in The Atlantic: One Change That Could Make American Criminal Justice Fairer.

Robert L. Abell
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