S2 Ep48: Jake Bird & Inadequate Legal Representation

This week we are featuring our first ever Patron picked episode! Thank you Katy Bjorkman, you lovely Dream Maker, for this week's topic! We start by telling the story of serial killer Jake Bird, and then shift into an explanation on inadequate legal representation. We cover three facets that contribute to the issue; lack of funding, lack of ethical standards, and racial biases & discrimination. Sources http://courts.mrsc.org/supreme/031wn2d/031wn2d0777.htm https://www.historylink.org/File/7971 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Bird https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bird-jake.htm https://www.aclu.org/other/inadequate-representation https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/death-penalty-representation https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/death-penalty-representation/law-regarding-capital-representation https://innocenceproject.org/causes/inadequate-defense/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/27977409 https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/76th2011/ExhibitDocument/OpenExhibitDocument?exhibitId=17686&fileDownloadName=h041211ab501_pescetta.pdf https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/594244-its-time-for-congress-to-step-up-funding-for-the-legal-services/ https://www.aclu.org/other/race-and-death-penalty https://www.bamsl.org/?pg=LegalAid

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Hey! We are Ash and Katy, this is our podcast, Always the Last to Know! Growing up we were taught how to live in the world, everything was going fine…until literally, the entire world changed, thus making everything we had learned essentially obsolete. Needless to say, Mr. Feeny and Cory Matthews did not prepare us for social media takeovers, taxes, or making our way through an insane world where an entire generation is trauma bonded. It feels like we missed entire lessons on things so the goal is to fill in the gaps of our education- from discussions on current laws to clones, from N.A.T.O to what's hidden under melting glaciers, join us while we attempt to navigate our way through the world, figure out adulthood, and hopefully learn something new along the way!