Burdening the Least of Us: "Race-conscious" Ethics in Criminal Defense

Texas Law Review

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1999, Pages

  Smith, Abbe ^a  

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References (7)

1. Anthony V. Alfieri, Race Trials, 76 TEXAS L. REV. 1293, 1301 (1998).
2. See Anthony V. Alfieri, Lynching Ethics: Toward a Theory of Racialized Defenses, 95 MICH. L. REV. 1063, 1068 (1997) [hereinafter Alfieri, Lynching Ethics] ("To the extent that it assumes a theory-driven posture toward sociolegal practice, [my] approach will doubtless stir protest. . . . [S]ome may condemn the approach for privileging abstract theoretical design over contextualized reflection.").
3. See Alfieri, Race Trials, supra note 1, at 1301 ("[F]or advocates, results denote the measure of success, not aesthetics.").
4. Anthony V. Alfieri, Defending Racial Violence, 95 COLUM. L. REV. 1301, 1340 (1995) (suggesting that practitioners should consider civic responsibilities and societal needs, as well as the needs of individual clients).
5. Id. at 1307. Alfieri defines his proposed "ethic of race-conscious responsibility" as "an alternative community-centered obligation" that includes a duty to "contribute] to the shape of a client's social identity" in addition to the client's "legal identity." Id. Alfieri's notion of race-consciousness "demands a transformation of the liberal regime of colorblind criminal defense practice from the perspective of race." Alfieri, Lynching Ethics, supra note 2, at 1091.
6. ANNIE HALL (United Artists 1977).
7. Id.