Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2020, Volume 33, Number 3
Content
- Black Votes Matter
- From the Section Chair
- Masthead
- My Ancestors' Wildest Dreams
- Obtaining Information from Law Enforcement Personnel Files: a Defense Attorney's Perspective
- Preventing Discrimination in Jury Selection
- Supreme Court of California Statement on Equality
- Sweet Taste of Liberty: a True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
- Table of Contents
- The California Supreme Court, 2019-2020: Continuing Evolution of a Diverse Court
- The Greatest of the Greatest Generation
- The Guy Miles Case - Race and a Wrongful Conviction
- The Impact of Innocence: a Lawyer's Perspective
- This Land. Your Land. My Land.
- Words Matter. Perhaps Especially Ours as Lawyers.
- Editor's Foreword At a Crossroads for a Juster System
EDITOR’S FOREWORD At a Crossroads for a Juster System
By Benjamin G. Shatz
Benjamin G. Shatz, Editor-in-Chief of this journal, is a certified Specialist in Appellate Law and Co-chairs the Appellate Practice Group of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, in Los Angeles. BShatz@Manatt.com
Our nation is at a crossroads with regard to racial justice issues. Where society and the law will go next is unclear, but significant changes—long overdue—are brewing. This issue of California Litigation focuses on some of these important topics, looking forward, looking back, and examining where we are today.
Included in this issue are substantive pieces about criminal litigation, highlighting our collaboration between the Litigation Section and the Criminal Law Section. We also offer historical articles—both legal and highly personal—that we hope will provide needed context and food for thought. Articles in this issue also focus on failures of our criminal justice system. In particular we feature a pair of pieces not only about Guy Miles, who spent over 18 years incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, but also one by Mr. Miles himself. Rarely are the voices of actual parties, as opposed to lawyers, heard directly in these pages.