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FOR THE DEFENSE     
August - September 2008
Vol. 23, Num. 4

Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline in Tennessee
By Sarah King
 
 

On June 27th and 28th TACDL’s Juvenile Justice Committee presented the first Tennessee juvenile defense training in ten years. With over 100 attorneys, law school professors and deans, administrators, and others in attendance, speakers presented topics ranging from brain science and special education issues to juvenile trial practices and breaking down the school to prison pipeline. TACDL was honored to host distinguished presenters such as Joe Tulman, Ronald Lospennato, and Dr. William Bernet, in addition to statewide leading practitioners.

 

Many may recognize Joe Tulman as counsel for plaintiffs in Evans v. Williams, a class action suit which led to the closing of the large institution Forest Haven, as well as being the recipient of numerous awards including the ABA’s Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award. Ron Lospennato has as well been distinguished with numerous awards and is most prominently noted for multiple class action lawsuits resulting in sweeping national disability and juvenile reform; he also serves as the Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s School to Prison Reform Project. Additionally, Dr. William Bernet is most widely recognized for his groundbreaking work in forensic psychiatry.


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News & Articles

  • Hopelessly Deadlocked
    Jury declares mistrial in Leon Houston trial
    KINGSTON, TN—A judge has declared a mistrial in the case against a Roane County man accused of killing a sheriff's deputy and his friend. Defense attorney Jim Logan told the jury that the murder victims fired the first shots and caused the shootout. Read more in MEMBERS IN THE NEWS.

  • Benjamin Hooks, Leading Jurist and Civil Rights Leader
    NEW YORK Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 31st, 1925. Memphis, like most cities in the racially segregated American South at the time, openly discriminated against African Americans in all areas of public life. Hooks' family exposed him early to what civil rights activists of his generation came to call the "Freedom Struggle." More...

  • Justices Uphold Lethal Injection in Kentucky Case

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Kentucky’s method of execution by lethal injection, rejecting the claim that officials there administered a common sequence of three drugs in a manner that posed an unconstitutional risk that a condemned inmate would suffer acute yet undetectable pain. More...

  • Court Details Opposition to Bias in Jury Selection
    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, ruling that a Louisiana prosecutor had used improper tactics to pick an all-white jury for a black defendant’s murder trial, on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man who has been on death row for 12 years. More...

  • Editorial

    The Supreme Court Fine-Tunes Pain

    The Supreme Court’s regrettable ruling upholding Kentucky’s use of lethal injection is a reminder of why government should get out of the business of executing prisoners. Rather than producing a crisp decision upholding the constitutionality of lethal injection, the court broke down into warring opinions debating the ugly question of how much unnecessary pain the state may impose. Most compelling were the dissenters, which wanted to know more about whether Kentucky was torturing inmates needlessly, and Justice John Paul Stevens’ challenge to capital punishment in all forms.

  • Prosecution, Defense Attorneys Trade Charges During Closing Arguments In Nicholson Trial
    Jury To Begin Deliberations Wednesday Morning
    Marvin Nicholson should never have been a serious suspect in the murder of a 15-year-old drug dealer, much less charged with the crime, Nicholson’s attorney told a Hamilton County Criminal Court jury Tuesday evening.

  • FBI Release Annual US Crime Report
    LAWFUEL.COM - The Legal Newswire - The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of more than 17,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention. Since 1930, the FBI has administered the UCR Program and continued to assess and monitor the nature and type of crime in the Nation. More...

  • Brief Reviews Trauma Among Youth in Juvenile Justice System
    The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice has published "Trauma Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Critical Issues and New Directions." This research and program brief provides an overview of trauma among youth in the juvenile justice system, including its scope and impact; and reviews tools, curricula and approaches for addressing trauma among justice-involved youth. Issues related to implementing trauma services within the juvenile justice system context are also discussed. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice.


Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law, Yeshiva University

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