Amy Bach!

Lawyers sleeping during death penalty trials. 

Public defenders pleading clients guilty with only 

scant knowledge about the circumstances of the case. 

Court-appointed attorneys who assume all of their 

clients are guilty. 

Judges convicting and sentencing criminal defendants 

without a trial or plea. 

Lawyers being paid $50 per criminal case. 

Amy Bach will discuss her groundbreaking book, Ordinary 

Injustice: How America Holds Court. In this revealing indictment of 

our criminal courts, Bach moves from southern Georgia to upstate 

New York, from Mississippi to Chicago, exposing courts that 

administer assembly-line justice in the name of efficiency and strip 

poor people of their most basic constitutional protections in the 

process. 

Tuesday, November 17.  12:30-1:45.  Room 10.  Lunch provided

Co-sponsored by the Death Penalty Clinic and the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law