Feb. 15, 2000

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For the People By Jeffrey A. Lowe In a city of Dickensian extremes, nowhere is the difference between rich and poor more pronounced than in the Los Angeles criminal justice system. We have a two-tiered system of justice: one for those who have the financial resources to purchase justice and a separate and unequal system for the poor and disenfranchised. This system of justice must be changed if we truly want to afford every person regardless of wealth equal access to justice.