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BOSTON COLLEGE
LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE
SUMMER 2014
BC.EDU/BCLAWMAGAZINE
JUSTICE
Lost in Lockup
Professor Advocates
for Reform in
Juvenile Detention
PROFILE
Obama’s Genius
Strategist
David Simas 95 Wows
the White House
GREAT CASE
Pleading
the Ninth
Students Make Their
Case in Californias
Circuit Court
GUILTY
UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT
DENNIS MAHER’S 19-YEAR FIGHT FOR EXONERATION
BC Law Magazine
JUVENILE
JUSTICE
WHEN KIDS DO TIME,
NOBODY WINS.
TROUBLED JUVENILES
MAY NOT HAVE A
VOICE, BUT PROFES-
SOR FRANCINE
SHERMAN ’80 DOES.
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Photograph by RICHARD ROSS
SUMMER 2014
VOLUME 22 / NUMBER 2
Features
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BC Law Magazine
SUMMER 2014 VOLUME 22 / NUMBER 2 Features
IN LIMINE Foremost Welcome to the New BC Law
CORRESPONDENCE SUMMER 2014 VOLUME 22
BEHIND THE COLUMNS Foremost
Campus News and Events of Note IN BRIEF 6 CANDID
DOCKET In Brief Conversat
“Our students learned a great deal about the trea
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DOCKET Candid “It’s not about what you know, bu
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123456 from him,” says Miller, who left the l
DOCKET Brainstorm Q+A WI
Dean Vincent Rougeau recently sat down with Daral
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to support me. Otherwise, this experi- ence would
DOCKET Faculty Scholarship Novel Theory Gets
“One of my mentors told me when I began as a law
DOCKET Evidence Where in theWorld? BC
FACULTY DISPATCHES Professor Renee Jones, whose
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1. David Curtin ’85, Dean Clifford Larsen
When Dennis Maher realized he was being held on s
I’VE thanks to the innocence project, exoneration
the innocence project IMAGINE THEIR CONVERS
Aliza Kaplan recalls that a big door opened at th
the innocence project reason to believe that I
He did. Down there were two big boxes from the Lo
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GREAT CASES “Good morning. May it please
Professor Hong US from Mexico as a mi- coa
GREAT CASES
“Professor Hong told us, ‘Your knees will be sh
CELL SHOCKED When kids do time, nobody wins. With
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Juvenile Justice
court-involved girls, she and her husband were al
Juvenile Justice trauma, the re
FINDING THEIR PASSION Two grads turn clinical exp
Juvenile Justice
Summer 2014 BC LAW MAGAZINE 43
meet the u n f l a p p a b l e, david unrelenting
GREAT CASES
PHOTOGRAPH BY PETE SOUZA/WHITE HOUSE STAFF
“there’s a big part of successful politicking
operation. He was the traffic cop.” Simas said he
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