I was in federal court the other day when a group of visiting Chinese law professors appeared, escorted by translators and Jay Pottenger of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Clinic at the Yale Law School. I wondered what they would make of a hearing about conflicts of interest in a death-penalty case. I kept thinking about the cost of a bullet.

On each lawyer’s table was a small American flag.

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