New Mexico defense attorney and Driscoll Award recipient.

“I was a prosecutor but I saw the light. Two inmates were charged with exactly the same thing to exactly the same person at exactly the same time. One received the death penalty from a jury, and the other one did not. I told myself the death penalty could not be fair if two people who did exactly the same thing got different results.”

“It’s not fair. Poor people are charged with the death penalty and rich people aren’t. People of color get charged with the death penalty and white people don’t. And so I just dedicated myself to do as much as I could to keep people from suffering institutionalized first-degree murder.”

“In those days we treated each other like himan beings. And nowadays, it seems like the defense lawyers and the prosecutors, they drink so much of the Kool-Aid, they wouldn’t even talk to each other if they’re out in the same bar, ten feet away. There is no interaction there, and I think there has to be to reach justice and get fair outcomes in cases.”