Criminal Defense Clinic
Fall 2023: Visiting Professor of Law Julie Cramer and Clinical Teaching Fellow Colleen Cullen
Students enrolled in the semester-long Criminal Defense Clinic represent low-income clients charged with a wide variety of misdemeanor crimes and municipal ordinance violations, including assault, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, theft and many others. Students learn and apply lawyering skills such as interviewing, client counseling, fact investigation, legal research and writing, oral advocacy, negotiation and trial preparation. Students also appear regularly in court for arraignments, pretrial conferences, motions hearings and trial. Through both classes and cases, students have numerous opportunities to explore systemic problems such as racial and economic bias, law enforcement accountability and access to justice.
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