Courtesy photo 'There Is No Better Day': Defense Lawyers Welcome Early Presidential Pardons and Commutations
"We are finally realizing that locking someone up for 30 years for selling an ounce of weed doesn't make a lot of sense, either from a retributive justice side or a restorative justice side," said Atlanta lawyer Robin Frazer Clark, a former president of the State Bar of Georgia and the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association.
April 27, 2022 at 01:25 PM
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Criminal Law
Criminal defense attorneys welcomed the news Tuesday from President Joe Biden of three pardons, including an Athens, Georgia, man, and 75 sentence commutations for people across the country.
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