The Fear of Too Much Justice
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🗓️ 29 July 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In Amicus’ summer series of conversations about books that expanded our thinking about justice and the courts, beyond the churn of headlines, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by death penalty lawyer, professor and author Stephen Bright to discuss his new book, The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts.
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| 0:32.3 | Think about that a life sentence for writing a bad check for 88 dollars. |
| 0:36.7 | Didn't take the deal and he got the life sentence in the Supreme Court of Hell that and said, |
| 0:41.3 | well, that's just part of the give and take of plea bargaining. |
| 0:44.8 | Where was the give and take? |
| 0:46.4 | We see a lot of taking but we don't see much giving. |
| 0:51.2 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slates podcast about the courts and the law and the rule |
| 0:56.6 | of law. I'm Dahlia Lithwick and welcome back to our summer series of conversations about writers |
| 1:02.4 | and books and podcasts and thinkers that are shaping the way we think about justice and the court |
| 1:08.0 | system. My guest today is one of the people I admire most in the whole entire legal world. |
| 1:14.5 | Stephen B. Wright who has tried capital cases before juries in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi |
| 1:21.3 | and argued for capital cases before the US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of |
| 1:27.6 | his client in every one of those cases. Three involved race discrimination in jury selection |
| 1:34.0 | and the fourth involved the right to a mental health expert for a poor person facing the death |
| 1:39.6 | penalty. His brand new book co-authored with James Quack was published in June. It's called |
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