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.@sfchronicle looks at why Gavin Newsom hasn’t commuted any death sentences, talking to both Stanford Law's @JohnDonohueSLS and @3strikesproject's @mromano: https://stanford.io/3SwoEI8

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Stanford Law's Lucy Ricca and Professor David Freeman Engstrom from the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession write an opinion essay for ...CalMatters on how legislators shouldn't shut down ways to get Californians legal help. https://stanford.io/3P2HALq

"If you want a better government, you have to actively get yourself engaged in creating it. You try and persuade, and if you do, the country follows you." Former SLS Dean Larry Kramer, via @nytimes.
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