"For the People": Finding the Humanity in Our Criminal Legal System with Sajid Khan and Avi Singh

In this crossover episode with the cohosts of Aider and Abettor podcast, Bay Area public defenders Avi Singh and Sajid Khan join DA Boudin and Rachel to examine what it means when a prosecutor represents "the people." The group asks who are the people represented by the system at each stage and is the system really serving them? How can the system better recognize the humanity of defendants and victims? They also explore whether lawyers working in the system should find more collaboration in an adversarial system. The discussion walks through various stages of the criminal legal system (from charging, bail, plea bargains, trials, through sentencing) and reimagines all the ways in which the system should honor the humanity of the people touched by it but too often denies it. Finally, Avi leads DA Boudin, Rachel and Sajid in a "lightning round" of questions submitted by Aider and Abettor fans.

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"For the People": Finding the Humanity in Our Criminal Legal System with Sajid Khan and Avi Singh is an episode from Chasing Justice by Rachel Marshall.

This episode is 01:10:34 long.

This episode was published on Jul 21, 2020.

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