In August, the EJS legal team traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, the birthplace of the civil rights movement, where we met with death penalty litigators from around the country to identify strategies to overturn McCleskey v. Kemp, a 1987 Supreme Court case in which a habeas petitioner presented statistical evidence showing grave disparities in the impositionContinueContinue reading “EJS Meets with Leading Death Penalty Litigators in Montgomery, Ala.”
Author Archives: Keith Kamisugi
Allison Elgart Joins EJS as Supervising Attorney
The Equal Justice Society welcomes Allison Elgart as our new Supervising Attorney, effective October 4. Allison was formerly an associate in the San Francisco office of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP where she primarily focused on consumer protection and employment class action litigation. “We are delighted that Allison is joining us here at EJS,”ContinueContinue reading “Allison Elgart Joins EJS as Supervising Attorney”
The Death Penalty and North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act
By Abby Bar-Lev On August 11, 2009, North Carolina Governor Perdue took an affirmative step in providing racial justice advocates a tool to ferret out racial bias in the criminal justice by signing the North Carolina Racial Justice Act. The Racial Justice Act, the product of a concerted effort by legislators and racial justice advocates, provides defendants in capital casesContinueContinue reading “The Death Penalty and North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act”