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Kangaroo tribunals and student discipline.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

In addition to criminal defense, I do student discipline defense. The two legal defense areas go well together, sometimes with student disciplinary matters relating to pending or potential criminal charges, and involving the fight for fair proceedings and fair treatment.  My zeal for fighting for criminal defendants and students goes as far back as the age of nine, when a fourth grade teacher -- not even my teacher -- stopped me in the hall, and asked: "Why were you playing last Wednesday at the apartments across the street?" I asked why she was accusing me. "Because someone reported a brown-haired boy in a blue coat doing that." I replied: "You have just described half the boys in the school. Have a nice day." Four years later, I talked a teacher into reversing a detention he ordered over my talking with a friend while he was trying to teach class...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 15, 2009 (boomark / email).