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May 17, 2019
Jails and cash bail are plea-generating machines
“Jails and the prosecutorial system and cash bail are plea-generating machines” is one of the most pointed, unassailable quotes from Emily Bazelon’s new book, “Charged.”
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
Emily Bazelon has had a unique and, to this writer, tremendously enviable career. She is an attorney, a staff writer for the New Yorker and New York Times Magazine, a lecturer in both law and creative non-fiction at the Yale Law School, where she is the Truman Capote fellow. There are few cutting edge areas in the law that she has not mastered. Coming from Washington -- N.Y. legal aristocracy, her grandfather was the late and very influential D.C. Circuit Judge David ...
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