The Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics presents
Pursuing “Justice” in the Criminal Justice System
Co-sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center
Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 4:30-5:45 p.m.
Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Room 308 121 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549
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Edwin Raymond, Author, “An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America”
Edwin Raymond is a recently retired NYPD lieutenant, civil-rights activist and author of An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America. He is the recipient of an NAACP Courage Under Fire Award, International Documentary Association Courage Under Fire Award and IDA Doc Star of the Month. Mr. Raymond has appeared on The Trevor Noah Podcast, CNN with Anderson Cooper, Freakonomics Radio (podcast) with Stephen Dubner, NBC with Sarah Wallace, Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, ABC News, and various media outlets.
SPEAKERS
Julio Cuevas, Jr., Special Counsel, Conviction Review Unit, Kings County District Attorney’s Office
Julio Cuevas, Jr. started his career in public service at the New York County District Attorney’s Office, where he prosecuted a variety of street crimes, including drug sales, robberies, and attempted murder. He transferred to the Official Corruption Unit in 2002, was appointed Senior Investigative Counsel in 2008, and Deputy Chief in 2010. In 2014, ADA Cuevas was named Deputy Chief of the Public Corruption Unit, which combined the former Public Integrity Unit with OCU. This merger created a unit that investigated corruption by public servants and officials, who engaged in criminal conduct while on their public job. In August 2022, he joined the Kings County District Attorney’s Office Conviction Review Unit (“CRU”) as Special Counsel, where he currently investigates claims of actual and/or legal innocence, and supervises investigations conducted by other attorneys within the Unit..
Elizabeth Nevins Saunders, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, Maurice A. Deane School of Law
Elizabeth Nevins is a Clinical Professor of Law at Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law, where she directs the Criminal Justice Clinic. Prior teaching experience includes several years at New York University School of Law where she was an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering and, in 2009-10, a senior fellow for Center on Research in Crime and Justice. Professor Nevins’s recent scholarship and public advocacy focuses on the systemic injustices of misdemeanor prosecutions. She has also published research on the intersection of criminal law and mental health law. Her work has appeared in the NYU Law Review, the UC Davis Law Review, and the American Journal of Criminal Law