Aram Byer James

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Aram Byer James
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Aram James is a national advocate for discontinuing police use of tasers.
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Aram Byer James is a former Santa Clara County, CA Assistant Public Defender, police watchdog, social activist, and civil rights attorney. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] As an expert on the defense of necessity, he headed the team of attorneys defending Stanford University students and professors arrested in anti-apartheid protests in 1980’s. [13] [14] [15] He is an advocate of jury nullification, educator in the use of the Marsden Motion to fire ineffective public defenders, a critic of the prison industrial complex, and critic of police use of tasers and racial profiling. [4] [12] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

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  1. ↑ Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice: What Every American Should Know, Steven Barkan, George Bryjak, p. 202, ISBN   0763755745, ISBN   978-0763755744
  2. ↑ Palo Alto chief approves profiling, ABC News , Friday, October 31, 2008
  3. ↑ Police watchdog threatens lawsuit, Bill D'Agostino, Palo Alto Weekly , Wednesday, April 6, 2005
  4. 1 2 Taser recommendation delayed - Instead, Task Force hears from Taser-sponsored doctor, ACLU, and activist Aram James, Becky Trout, Palo Alto Weekly, March 28, 2007
  5. ↑ Public Eye: Judging the Judges , Metro Silicon Valley , 10-17-02
  6. ↑ Palo Alto police chief releases minutes of racial profiling meetings, Will Oremus, San Jose Mercury News , 02/18/2010
  7. ↑ Palo Alto may look outside department for new top cop, Will Oremus, San Jose Mercury News, 03/21/2009
  8. ↑ Poster eye-catching... when seen: Civil rights initiative, San Jose Mercury News, August 21, 1996, p. 1B
  9. ↑ Civil Disobedience and the Necessity Defense Vehicle Habitation Legal Fund, Mark Petersen-Perez, Palo Alto Free Press, May 29, 2013
  10. ↑ Palo Alto delays debate on vehicle-dwelling ban, Palo Alto Weekly, Jul 20, 2011
  11. ↑ Tales From A Trial, Raj Jayadev, Metro Silicon Valley, 1-16-2008
  12. 1 2 Tasers:Are They a Viable Option?, East Palo Alto Today, May 3, 2011
  13. ↑ 15 Stanford Protestors Jailed for Anti-Apartheid Sit-ins, San Jose Mercury News, 4-18-1986, 1B Local
  14. ↑ In re Weller (1985) 164 Cal. App. 3d 44 [210 Cal. Rptr. 130]
  15. ↑ James v. San Jose Mercury News, Inc. (1993), 17 Cal. App. 4th 1 [20 Cal. Rptr. 2d 890]
  16. ↑ Take Back Our Criminal Justice System, Use Jury Nullification, Aram James, Albert Cobarrubias Justice Project, May 8, 2012
  17. ↑ The California Public Defender: Its Origins, Evolution and Decline; Laurence A. Benner, 5 Cal. Legal Hist. 173 (2010)
  18. ↑ De-bug's role as legal watchdog grows, Tracey Kaplan, San Jose Mercury News, 4-4-2010
  19. ↑ D.A. Confidential - What the Merc's much-heralded 'Tainted Trials, Stolen Justice' series didn't say about the District Attorney's office, Vrinda Normand, San Jose Metro, 4-12-2006
  20. ↑ New Jail Plans Advance, Ryan Mcarthy, Palo Alto Daily Post , 10-5-2011
  21. ↑ Ray Samuels: A Police Chief and Leader Who Championed Rights For All, Aram James Bio, Silicon Valley Debug, 3-6-2012
  22. ↑ Police Activism in San Jose, Peter Maiden
  23. ↑ Charged Debate, Marty Levine, Pittsburgh City Paper , 11-15-2007
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