New York Daily News: Judicial bias crimes in New Jersey: Rapes excused, seemingly on the basis of race

When I read about the recent appellate ruling in the case of a drunken 16-year-old boy who had forced himself onto an intoxicated 16-year-old girl in a basement in New Jersey, it brought me back to my years as a public defender. I was one of the original eight attorneys who opened the Bronx Defenders back in 1997. My clients were poor African Americans and Latinos who couldn’t afford an attorney, so I was appointed to their cases.