Criminal Legal System
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and ACLU of Louisiana’s Justice Lab file criminal appeal following Louisiana man’s unlawful arrest during traffic stop
Tags Share BOSSIER CITY, LA, December 18, 2023 —Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana (ACLU-LA) have filed a criminal appeal on behalf of their client Anthony Monroe, after Mr. Monroe was convicted of battery of a police officer and resisting an officer. The appeal, filed on November…
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Pressure to shut down Louisiana detention center mounts with release of reported abuses
Tags Share Reckon Media highlights a new report co-authored by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights that documents years of abuse and torture at Winn Correctional Center in Lousiana. Staff attorney Sarah Decker comments on Winn’s history of human rights violations, including abusive use of solitary confinement. “We very frequently see ICE weaponizing solitary confinement,” she…
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Citing history of alleged abuse, groups call on ICE to end contract at former La. prison
Tags Share Speaking with Verite News, our staff attorney Sarah Decker calls on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to shut down Winn Correctional Center, a Louisiana ICE detention center with a long history of violence, abuse and negligence.
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
To understand the causes is not to permit the result. No man has the right to wantonly menace the safety and well-being of his neighbors. All citizens have the right to security in the streets of their community—in Birmingham or in Los Angeles. And it is the duty of all public officials to keep the…
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Address at the International Police Academy Commencement
Guns and bombs cannot build— cannot fill empty stomachs or educate children, cannot build homes or heal the sick. But these are the ends for which men establish and obey government; they will give their allegiance only to governments which meet these needs.
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Address Delivered to the American Bar Association, House of Delegates, San Francisco, California
Legal services, particularly defense in criminal cases, are not like houses or automobiles where those with more money can buy better products without affecting the basic functioning of society. When one defendant cannot afford a complete defense, justice is being rationed.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
In the words of the old saying, every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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Address Delivered Before the American Bar Association House of Delegates, San Francisco, California
As long as a man is handicapped before the bar of justice because of his poverty, our task as lawyers is not done.
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Speech in Chicago
Equality of justice in our courts should never depend upon the defendant’s wealth or lack of resources, but in all honesty we must admit that we have failed frequently to avoid such a result.
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Speech at the University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois
What is the price tag on equal justice under law? Has simple justice a price which we as a profession must exact? Is that what we have come to?
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Thus I was pleased as attorney general to be able to establish a new office of Criminal Justice in the department to deal with the whole spectrum of the criminal process, from arrest to rehabilitation.
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
Most of our fellow citizens do their best—and do it the modest, unspectacular, decent, natural way which is the highest form of public service. But every day in a shameful variety of ways the selfish actions of the small minority sully the honor of our na
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