Personal Introduction

-- By JocelynCazares - 29 Jan 2015

From law school I gain the tools, and knowledge I need to pursue my dream. Through the knowledge, practice, and skills I develop in law school I will be able to finally enter the realm of law and criminal justice. Specifically, I seek to become a public defender and to provide a legal voice to those in my life who have been taken advantage of by those with greater access to the law due to money. Furthermore, law school will provide me the necessary social capital to then assist in the attack of many systematically unjust legal frameworks.

I hope you will enjoy making Robinson's acquaintance and that we will be talking about him, and your professional aspirations, in class on Friday. The overwhelming majority of a public defender's clients are guilty, and you job will be the negotiation of their guilty pleas whether they are or not. Will that bother you?