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What's It Like Elsewhere? Defense lawyers and district attorneys react to Real Justice and offer a national perspective on challenges facing criminal justice at the state court level.
a florida perspective on public defenders

Heavy workloads? Low salaries? High turnover of public defenders in Boston's courts? Howard Babb, Jr., president of the Florida Public Defender Association says they're common issues confronting Florida's judicial circuits. Here's a letter Babb recently wrote Governor Jeb Bush in response to the governor's request that each of Florida's 20 elected Public Defenders reduce their budgets. Rabb also cites a recent newspaper article "Lawyer Turnover Causing Big Delays" highlighting how low salaries for ass't defense lawyers are "tearing up" the system.
The Situation is Not at All Atypical

E. Michael McCann, district attorney for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin outlines how the cases, the scenes, the legal tactics and strategies in "Real Justice" mirror the daily challenges in trying to make the system work.
Emergency Room Triage

The rough edges of America's urban courts are on stark display in "Real Justice" say Ronald Sullivan Jr. and Jeffrey Berman, who are with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. But while impressed with the series' access and the thought provoking questions raised, they say one aspect of urban American criminal justice is conspicuously absent.
working the system

For the uninitiated, says Ronald C. Smith, Chicago law professor and former prosecutor and defense attorney, "Real Justice" reveals enough of the system's underbelly to get you started. But he thinks the "justice factory" in America's large cities is grittier, darker and more chaotic.
a clear mirror on our society

This view of the system's underside shows clearly, says Michael Johnson, Merrimack County, N.H. DA, how the criminal justice system has inherited the obligations of America's failed institutions.

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