{"product_id":"ordinary-injustice-how-america-holds-court-paperback","title":"Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmy Bach\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A groundbreaking book . . . revealing the systemic, everyday problems in our courts that must be addressed if justice is truly to be served.\"--Doris Kearns Goodwin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAttorney and journalist Amy Bach spent eight years investigating the widespread courtroom failures that each day upend lives across America. What she found was an assembly-line approach to justice: a system that rewards mediocre advocacy, bypasses due process, and shortchanges both defendants and victims to keep the court calendar moving. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is the public defender who pleads most of his clients guilty with scant knowledge about their circumstances; the judge who sets outrageous bail for negligible crimes; the prosecutor who habitually declines to pursue significant cases; the court that works together to achieve a wrongful conviction. Going beyond the usual explanations of bad apples and meager funding, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Injustice\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a clubby legal culture of compromise, and shows the tragic consequences that result when communities mistake the rules that lawyers play by for the rule of law. It is time, Bach argues, to institute a new method of checks and balances that will make injustice visible--the first and necessary step to reform.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Bach\u003c\/b\u003e, a member of the New York bar, has written on law for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe American Lawyer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, among other publications. For her work in progress on \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Injustice\u003c\/i\u003e, Bach received a Soros Media Fellowship, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship. She lives in Rochester, New York, where she taught legal studies at the University of Rochester.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 7.96 x 5.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47641876594947,"sku":"9780805092271","price":26.72,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/RXVmVVhRMUhSZk8rb0RpVE0xejBPdz09.webp?v=1768643582","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-ch\/products\/ordinary-injustice-how-america-holds-court-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}