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50 分钟Wes Clark reads a telling line in a police report about how Rutherford County’s juvenile justice system really works. He and his law partner Mark Downton realize they have a massive class action on their hands. From Serial Productions and The New York Times in partnership with ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio, “The Kids of Rutherford County” is reported and hosted by Meribah Knight, a Peabody-award winning reporter based in the South.
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The two attorneys, Wes Clark and Mark Downton, were feeling pretty good.
They'd just gotten a 15 year old kid out of solitary confinement and that felt like a big victory against Judge Davenport.
They'd also decided to team up for real form a firm of their own called Doughton Clark.
It had no real office, no business cards, but it did have one very specific goal.
The goal was to get out.
Here's Mark to not be juvenile court.
Lawyers anymore because it was too much.
Time for too little money and they needed the money.
While the work at juvenile court was steady, the pay was low.
As far as attorneys go, court appointed cases were capped at 50 bucks an hour.
Wes had law school loans and was still living at his mother in law's house.
Mark was a little more flush than thanks to a side gig doing document review for higher paid lawyers.