Vida B. Johnson is a criminal defense lawyer and professor of American law at Georgetown University Law Center. Johnson works in the Defense Crime and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic and Criminal Justice Clinic, and oversees lawyers in the Graduate Fellowship Program E. Barrett Prettyman. Johnson regularly writes in law and criminal procedures.
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Family and Education
Grandpa Johnson, Dr. Reverend Allen Johnson, is a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. In 1967, the Johnson family home in Laurel, Mississippi was bombed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Johnson and his family were targeted because he was an activist at the National Association for Advancement of Colored People.
Vida Johnson grew up in San Diego, California. Johnson attended the University of California at Berkeley. Johnson earned a degree in American History. Johnson went to law school at New York University Law School. Johnson went to law school seeking to become a civil rights lawyer, following in his grandfather's footsteps. After his first year of law school, Johnson worked at the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center where he worked on a class action suit on behalf of a death row in Mississippi State Penitentiary. After her second summer, she was apprenticed in San Francisco's public defender's office. During his final year at law school, he worked at the Adolescent Defense Clinic at NYU Law. After law school, Johnson is a fellow E. Barrett Prettyman at Georgetown Law. As a colleague, he represents a poor adult in the High Court of D.C. and students supervised at the Criminal Justice Clinic.
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Legal career
The Public Defender Service
After his fellowship at Georgetown Law, Johnson began working as a public defender with a trial division of the Public Defender Service for District of Columbia (PDS), where he worked for eight years. In the PDS, Johnson handles serious crimes cases. He tried many crime cases in D.C. The High Court representing the poor clients faces charges including murder, sexual assault, and armed offenses. Johnson eventually became the supervisor of the testing division and served as one of two PDS representatives to the High Court Sentencing Commission D.C.
Georgetown Law
In 2009, Johnson began working and teaching at the Young Justice Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. Johnson now works in Criminal Justice Clinic (CJC) and Criminal Defense & amp; Prisoner Advocacy Clinic (CDPAC). In his CDPAC and CJC roles, he directed the Doctor Juris students who represented the defendant facing a minor offense charge at D.C. High Court.
Johnson is also a supervisor for E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship and Stuart Stiller Post-Graduate Fellowship Program. The E. Barrett Prettyman and the Stuart Stiller Fellowship Program combine instruction at the Graduate School's Law Center with poor client representatives in the local District of Columbia courts. It trains new law graduates in both the academic and practical aspects of advocacy of the courtroom. The program aims to enhance defense defense in the criminal justice system by providing capable and well-informed counselors under careful supervision for poor defendants. This scholarship is awarded to three new law graduates who are selected to participate in a two-year program leading to LL.M. degree. In this program, Johnson oversees colleagues who deal with serious crimes and minor crimes.
Writing and Display
Johnson writes and teaches in the field of criminal law. In Application for Funds: Using Padilla, Lafler, and Frye to Increase Resources Public Defender, writes about Supreme Court case law regarding ineffective counseling assistance and on how this line of cases affects the public defender's office.
Johnson does criminal defense work because he believes there will be a criminalization of a black community that replaces Jim Crow's segregation at his grandfather's time. Johnson appeared in C-SPAN to discuss criminal defense work.
Johnson supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
Johnson signed "Second chance: More harm than good?", A letter to The Washington Post editor, along with Professor Abbe Smith and Professor Kristin Henning. The letter criticized the "Second-Chance City" series and the negative depictions of the Youth Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson, along with six other law professors, organized an open letter urging the US Senate Committee on Justice to reject the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) For the position of US Attorney General. More than 1,400 law school faculty members from 180 institutions signed letters, including 1,226 law school professors from 179 campuses in 48 states. Johnson appeared on MSNBC to discuss the letter.
Contribution to Law Reviews and Scientific Journals
- Capturing Batson: How Jurors Attack Base on Arrest Records Breaking Batson, 34 Yale L. & amp; Pol'y Rev. 387 (2016).
- Considered Fair? Voir Dire on the Fundamentals of Our Criminal Justice System, 45 Seton Hall L. Rev. 545 (2015).
- Application for Funds: Using Padilla, Lafler, and Frye to Increase Public Defender Resources, 51 American Criminal Law Review 403 (2014).
- When Government Holds Strings Purse but Not Purse: Brady, Giglio, and Crime Victim Compensation Fund, 38 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & amp; Soc. Change 491 (2014).
- Effective Help from Counsel and Guilt - The Seven Rules to Follow, 37 Champion 24 (2013).
- Words of Wisdom: Consequences of Confession, 10 Ohio St. J. Crime. L. 213 (2012).
- A Primer on Crossing an Informant, 35 The Champion 40 (2011).
References
External links
- Vida Johnson on Twitter
- Appearance in C-SPAN
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