Criminal Clinic Defender Component Needed service. Students work in public defenders law offices, serving poor persons accused of crime and entitled to a free lawyer. Service-subject matter relation, Students learn criminal trial skills and perform the skills as part of their service. Class contemplates learning through service. Class includes paper requirement, and paper could be written with this focus.
Class requires paper relying upon experiences in placement, which is graded.
Service recipients evaluate service. The supervising attorneys must evaluate the students' work. Service develops civic education. Placement is public defender law offices, and students see criminal justice system in all its glory. Knowledge enhances service.