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S4E8: The Price of Mercy, with Emily Galvin Almanza on Public Defense, Justice, and Andromeda Diaz
Emily Galvin Almanza has spent her career reimagining what justice can look like. A former public defender and co-founder and executive director of Partners for Justice, she joins Just Justice to talk about her acclaimed book, The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender’s Search for Justice in America, and her new middle-grade novel, Andromeda Diaz and the Reasonable
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“Therein lies part of the problem as well. Good guys versus bad guys. It's a false dichotomy, a two-dimensional cartoon rather than a multidimensional, full-blown portrayal of actual people. Constructs like these minimize the humanity of the people being prosecuted. Criminal defendants become a parade of disposable people who are somehow less than human and not worthy of careful, sometimes agonizing consideration of the possibility that somewhere along the line something went terribly wrong.”
― Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened
― Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened