Profile Follows Life Of Kelly Harnett, Jailhouse Lawyer
The piece also serves as an introduction for those who may be unfamiliar with a significant but sometimes unevenly applied law in New York: the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act.
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For New York Magazine’s Intelligencer, Justine van der Leun profiled jailhouse lawyer Kelly Harnett’s journey from helping other women at the law library at Rikers and then, after she was sentenced for murder, clerking at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility’s law library, to the vacation of her murder conviction and life after her release.
The piece also serves as an introduction for those who may be unfamiliar with a significant but sometimes unevenly applied law in New York: the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, which, in 2019, established a resentencing relief pathway for victims of domestic violence whose abuse contributed to their conviction.
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