nlada.org/News/News_Lawyers/Lawyers_Profiling Lawyers Making a Difference What these attorneys did was above and beyond the call of duty. And its a true example that dedicated lawyers can make a difference in the pursuit of justice for the welfare of the total community. - Jorge Godoy, Public Defender, Cumberland County, New Jersey Racial profiling, now a national scandal, was first established as a bona fide legal issue by three public defenders who spotted a trend in their caseloads. Throughout the 1980s, the New Jersey State Public Defenders Office saw a frustrating trend: a large number of African-Americans and Hispanics were being arrested on the southern third of the New Jersey Turnpike, in the area patrolled by the Moorestown Station of the state police. In 1990, Fred Last, Wayne Natale and Jeff Wintner, three senior attorneys in the Gloucester County Regional Office of the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender launched a full-throttle investigation, which resulted in a landmark decision establishing that police were illegally involved in racial profiling. As a result of their work and a later high-profile case, the racial profiling issue exploded into the national limelight
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 18:00:38 +0000
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