The Cases of a Criminal Defense Attorney

During his long career, Milwaukee criminal defense attorney Dean Strang has taken on many challenging cases, including that of Steven Avery that was the subject of the ten-part Netflix documentary Making a Murderer. Dean Strang tells us why pardons, commutations, and paroles have declined markedly since the 1960s and what the decline says about the effectiveness of the criminal justice system and we’ll also look at the role that politics plays in the granting of clemency and parole. It’s University of the Air with criminal defense attorney Dean Strang—next on the Ideas Network of WPR.