The Judge Shuts the Date for the Next Part of Laura's Case

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After the judge shut the date for the next part of laura's case, got up to leave, i remember him turning to us and just saying, please, don't stand for me, not to day. The mother of the murder victim from the sentencing she had just witnessed went to the bathroom. She touched my very pregnant stomach and asked about what i would be having before leaving the bathroom. And i jest, it was a moment that will never, never leave me because i think sometimes when we think about justice, we assume we know what humanity looks like and who will dole it out - andto it is deserved. It almost became this warshack test in the justice

When Laura Coates decided to become a prosecutor in Washington, D.C., she was told that the job would be “human misery.” She says she remembers thinking, “If there's one person in the justice system who could do something about human misery, surely, it's the powerful prosecutor.” After four years, she quit.

Laura’s book is Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight For Fairness.

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