Fall 2007: Criminal Defense Clinic

By Professor Patrick Metze, Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic. Originally published in the Fall 2007 Texas Tech Law Newsletter.

Inaugural clinic-director column reporting on the Defense Section students, their case mix (50 cases in two months), and recent achievements including a guest visit by Lydia Clay-Jackson.

(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 Justice Clinic
Defense Section

Just a short note to let everyone know the students in the Defense Section of the Criminal Justice Clinic are busy representing real people in real cases. In the first two months of this semester, students have handled or are handling 50 cases. Students handle all phases of representation from initial interview through appearance in Court. Of those 50 cases there have been 9 pleas of guilty and 7 dismissals.

This column is reproduced only in brief. Read the whole thing in the Fall 2007 issue at Texas Tech Law.