Criminal
Apr. 30, 2016
Boom times for in-house conviction review
More DA offices are opening conviction review units, but transparency and bias remain concerns.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
At a seminar this month on the campus of Loyola Law School, a participant asked panelist Kenneth Lynch, assistant head deputy in charge of the Los Angeles district attorney's office's Conviction Review Unit, about the elephant in the room: How does his team avoid bias when reviewing the work of close colleagues?
The question was inevitable, but will continue to be ask...
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