![]() ![]() He won a ruling holding that it is unconstitutional to sentence children to life without parole if they are 17 or younger and have not committed murder. Stevenson is a Harvard Law School graduate and has argued six cases before the Supreme Court. ![]() "The other thing that that incident did for me was just remind me that we have this attitude about people that is sometimes racially shaped - and you can't escape that simply because you go to college and get good grades, or even go to law school and get a law degree." " just reinforced what I had known all along, which is that we have a criminal justice system that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent," Stevenson tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Just Mercy Subtitle A Story of Justice and Redemption Author Bryan Stevenson ![]()
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