Though Amy Bach's book Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court doesn't specifically mention race as a motivating factor for the everyday injustice that takes place in American courts, there are parallels to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, and Max Geier's The Color of Night. Each of these books demonstrates the continued laziness within America's court systems, as well as the continued lack ambivalence towards this issue. Bach writes that her book "examines how state criminal trial courts regularly permit basic failures of legal process," while this is also mentioned in The Color of Night, with the case of Robert Folkes, as well as The New Jim Crow, and the prejudice that former prisoners can face (Bach, P.2). There seems to be an underlying theme of the poor and minorities being …show more content…
Author Amy Bach also writes in Ordinary Injustice about the real issue within the criminal justice system is the "poor quality of defense representation throughout the nation (Bach, P.28)." She states that "there are three basic systems for providing attorneys," and that all three of these are "flawed" in some way, and "tend to come apart when underfunded, poorly staffed, or subject to the whimsy of judges and prosecutors (Bach, P.28)." Bach also mentions that "private lawyers with paying clients may not want to make time for poorly funded cases," and that with a lack of compensation, "they have little reason to work hard on a....client's behalf (Bach, P.31)." This seems like laziness when it comes to the defense of those accused of a crime; For instance, Bach mentions that in a report from 2000 by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, it was found that there was a "decline in the number of cases taken to jury trial, an increase in guilty pleas at first-appearance hearings, a decline in the filing of motions to suppress evidence, a decline in requests for expert assistance, and an increase in complaints received by the court from defendants (Bach,