International
Apr. 8, 2008
Mexican Lawyers Train at Southwestern for Open Trials
Renee Licona Vazquez, left, and Juan Manuel are students in a Los Angeles trial advocacy program that educates attorneys who will return to Mexico to teach the next generation.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
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LOS ANGELES - In the American legal tradition, the concept of "a day in court" is so ingrained that the phrase itself has become a cliche.
In Mexico, though, where most criminal cases are decided behind closed doors based on written summaries of evidence, the notion of an open trial remai...
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