Fall 2022: Criminal Defense Clinic

By Professor Patrick Metze, Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic. Originally published in the Fall 2022 Texas Tech Law Newsletter.

Fall semester report on the Criminal Defense Clinic's caseload, student membership in TCDLA, and forensic science training trip to Ft. Worth.

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. This semester the students have handled or are handling 135 cases for 82 different clients.

Students handle all phases of representation from initial interview through appearance in Court. The responsibility of representation falls entirely on the clinic students' shoulders under the ever-watchful eyes of the Clinic Director and Clinic Fellow, Dwight McDonald.

This semester, of those 135 cases, 29 have been completed with 12 pleas of guilty and 17 dismissals for a…

This column is reproduced only in brief. Read the whole thing in the Fall 2022 issue at Texas Tech Law.