Fall 2009: Criminal Defense Clinic

By Professor Patrick Metze, Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic. Originally published in the Fall 2009 Texas Tech Law Newsletter.

Mid-year Criminal Defense Clinic report describing 79 cases for 68 clients across three counties, the Plano trial advocacy boot camp, mentor roster, and pro bono hours commitment.

(Note: extracted from a multi-column PDF; columns are interleaved line-by-line in the source text.)

From the Desk of Patrick S. Metze
Director, Criminal Defense Clinic

Just a short note to let everyone know the students in the Criminal Defense Clinic are, as always, busy representing real people in real cases in real time. Since the beginning of this semester, through November 20th, students have handled or are handling 79 cases for 68 different clients. Of those 79 cases, students have already taken on 4 felony charges and 75 misdemeanors in three different counties.

This column is reproduced only in brief. Read the whole thing in the Fall 2009 issue at Texas Tech Law.