Fall 2024: Criminal Defense Clinic
Fall report on the Criminal Defense Clinic with caseload statistics, 55% dismissal rate, and student attendance at a TCDLA forensic science seminar in San Antonio.
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 77 cases for 56 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, Professor Metze, and our Senior Lecturer, Dwight McDonald.
This column is reproduced only in brief. Read the whole thing in the Fall 2024 issue at Texas Tech Law.