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Podcast: Legal Listening: The Fox Rothschild LLP Podcast
Episode: The Presumption of Innocence - Episode 74
Description: Episode 74
Shattered Scales: Structural Harm in the Criminal Justice System
Is the American criminal justice system designed to find truth and justice? Or is it an apparatus created to secure convictions as efficiently as possible and penalize poverty?
Peer behind the courthouse door with former public defender Emily Galvin Almanza as she joins host Matt Adams to discuss her book, The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender's Search for Justice in America.
A Co-Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Partners for Justice, Emily dissects the harmful, everyday bureaucratic practices that play a central...