Entries tagged with “Stephen Bright”
Apr 05, 2023
BOOKS: The Fear of Too Much Justice
In their forthcoming book, “The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts,” renowned death-penalty attorney Stephen B. Bright and legal scholar James Kwak describe the many ways in which the U.S. legal system fails to uphold the constitutional rights of defendants, especially poor defendants and people of…
Policy Issues
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Feb 20, 2024
Op-Ed: Law Professor Stephen Bright Encourages SCOTUS to Review “Egregious Racial Discrimination” in Georgia Death Row Prisoner’s Case
In a February 14, 2024 op-ed published in the Washington Post, the longtime defense lawyer, former director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, and law professor Stephen Bright highlights the continued illegal exclusion of Black jurors in violation of Batson v. Kennedy (1986). The op-ed titled, “Struck from a jury for being Black? It still happens all too often,” uses the case of Georgia death-sentenced prisoner Warren King, whose petition the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to review on…