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For three years, the fate of poor people accused of crimes in San Benito County lay in the hands of attorneys who barely spoke with their clients and seldom filed legal motions on their behalf. Meet the Ciummo law firm.

📸 Larry Valenzuela

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December 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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For more than a decade, the all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted.

Efforts to expose the injustice went unheard.
They Tried to Expose Louisiana Judges Who Had Systematically Ignored Prisoners' Petitions. No One Li...
The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to ex...
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November 4, 2023 at 12:04 PM