Raffle Tickets!

There is still time to purchase tickets for our annual raffle: $20 each or 3 for $50.  Raffle ticket purchases should include contact information (in case you win!) and will be acknowledged with an email receipt showing your purchased raffle tickets. You need not be present to win. The grand prize...
October 9, 2015

Annual Luncheon

Our Annual Luncheon is in a month! We will be honoring the achievements of the Access to Community Treatment Court and the career dedication to the public interest of Miner Barnhill & Galland PC. Please use the Paypal form below to purchase luncheon tickets or raffle tickets. October 16, 2015...
September 14, 2015

Ensuring the Public Defense of Indigent Defendants in Cook County

The Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, a joint group of the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and the Chicago Council of Lawyers, has released a report on whether criminal defendants in Chicago’s felony preliminary hearing courtrooms receive the public defense required by the Sixth Amendment to t...
August 19, 2015

Victory for Fair Sentencing of Children

Last month, Illinois Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Children, Restore Justice Illinois and the Bluhm Legal Clinic celebrated the passage of their House Bill 2741. The Bill eliminates mandatory life-without-parole sentences for youth under 18 at the time of the offense and requires judges to co...
August 13, 2015

Law Professor Dan Coyne Named Independent Reviewer of Burge Torture Claims

On May 6, the Chicago City Council, after years of pressure by community organizations, passed the Budget Reparations Ordinance, a $5.5 million fund to make financial amends to black Chicagoans systematically tortured by former Chicago Police Commander John Burge and his officers between 1972 and 19...
July 1, 2015