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Congratulations to Bryan Stevenson

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"Montgomery attorney wins Gruber Justice Prize," is Bob Johnson's AP report, via the Montgomery Advertiser.Montgomery attorney Bryan Stevenson was named Wednesday a winner of the 2009 Gruber Justice Prize for his longtime work representing death row inmates, indigent defendants and juveniles.The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation announced it was awarding the prize to Stevenson and to the European Roma Rights Center. The two winners will split the award's $500,000 cash prize.Stevenson is founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery and is mostly known for representing death row inmates, often during the final stages of their appeals.Stevenson said the prize will go into the budget of the Equal Justice Initiative, which he said lost a source of funding when a major donor lost money in the investments of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 11, 2009 (boomark / email).