Legal Listening: The Fox Rothschild Llp Podcast

Episode Ten: The Unpopular Client: Protecting Their Presumption of Innocence Jennifer Sellitti, Director of Training and Communications at the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, joins podcast host and Co-Chair of Fox Rothschild’s White-Collar Criminal Defense and Regulatory Compliance Practice Matthew Adams for a thought-provoking discussion on how the “presumption of innocence” construct factors into each stage of the criminal justice process, from pre-trial publicity to sentencing. Their conversation also covers the importance of empathy to a defense attorney, the impact of systemic racism and bias on criminal proceedings and their hopes for the future of this field of law.