DUE PROCESS UNDER THE LAW is not the same for everyone. That was the message delivered in a public webinar this week, where public defenders spoke in support of legislation that they say would help even the scales of justice.

In the 1963 case Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that everyone has the right to a defense attorney and due process under the law, even if they have no way to pay for one.  

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.