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NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL: Law Book Talk by Tony Mauro: Amy Bach on Ordinary Injustice
One of the most powerful and important books on the law published in 2009 is Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court, by lawyer and journalist Amy Bach. She visited courts from Mississippi to Chicago to New York, examining how everyday justice works -- or, to be precise, doesn't work…
SLATE MAGAZINE: ARTICLE NAMED THIS WEEK’S MOST INTERESTING STORIES
"All Locked Up: Did Joe Sullivan, sentenced to life at 13, have a fair trial?" by Amy Bach. The Supreme Court case Sullivan v. Florida demonstrates some of the flaws in our judicial system.
THE NATION: New Rules for Schools: Editorial By Amy Bach: October 14, 2009
ROCHESTER CITY NEWSPAPER: THE COURTS: Rochester resident puts American justice on trial
By Tim Louis Macaluso on November 25, 2009
Rochester attorney and journalist Amy Bach spent eight years researching everyday courtroom failures.
THE NATION: Back Talk: Q and A with Amy Bach
ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE: And Justice for All? By Jim Memmot
After a few years had passed, friends and family began to wonder.
"When are you going to finish your book?" they would ask Amy Bach, a lawyer and journalist living in Rochester
THE DAILY RECORD: Rochester author Amy Bach: Justice anything but ordinary
by Elizabeth Stull. A Pennsylvania defense attorney who routinely pleaded clients guilty without ever speaking with them.
DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE: LAWYER'S BOOK TELLS OF LAPSES IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM
"Everybody knows the criminal justice system is far from perfect. But journalist and lawyer Amy Bach sees it from a different perspective — injustice that is a product not of incompetence, but of the natural human instinct to go along to get along."
MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN JOURNAL SENTINEL: NEW BOOK EXAMINES COURTS' SYSTEMIC FLAWS
"A new book about justice in America should remind everyone how easily people with the best intentions can get turned around. Ordinary Injustice - How America Holds Court, should be required reading for every judge, prosecutor, defense lawyer, clerk and defendant in courthouses everywhere."
THE HUFFINGTON POST: LAPSES ARE THE NORM, NOT THE EXCEPTION WHEN IT COMES TO OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM. Written by Amy Bach
"The throwing up of hands by different state agencies is typical of the systemic problems I encountered during the eight years I spent writing Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court. Law enforcement agencies work independently of each other, and don't coordinate well as a rule. So when problems do arise, they are quick to renounce responsibility. Usually, they blame each other. Meanwhile, while this finger pointing goes on, problems remain unsolved."
THE AM LAW DAILY: ORDINARY INJUSTICE: AMERICA'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM GONE AWRY
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"Lazy or overwhelmed public defenders. Wrongful convictions. Abuse of power. Amy Bach, a former staff reporter for The American Lawyer and a Stanford law school graduate, discusses it all in her new book, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court (Henry Holt, September 2009). After spending seven years in criminal courts in Georgia, New York, Illinois, and Mississippi, she chronicles a judicial system that fails not only those most in need, but society at large."
EAST HAMPTON PRESS & THE SOUTH HAMPTON PRESS: AN AUTHOR LOOKING FOR MORE JUSTICE IN LOCAL COURT SYSTEMS
"Amy Bach is not angry, nor is she cynical, but she is determined. Her determination is focused on bringing more sanity and ... well, justice to the criminal justice system, beginning at the local level. “There are no easy fixes,” she stated. “That being said, communities have to take responsibility for their court systems. To do that, they need to have the tools. Right now, the tools just don’t exist.”"
“It takes a community of legal professionals to let a sleeping lawyer sleep.”
