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Professor Vance Featured in The Washington Post & The New York Times

Professor Joyce Vance, The University of Alabama School of Law

Professor Joyce Vance was featured in articles in The Washington Post and The New York Times highlighting the Arbery case plea deal. The Washington Post article is titled Federal prosecutors saw a plea deal for Arbery’s killers as racial justice. His family thought otherwise and the New York Times article is titled How a Plea Deal in the Arbery Hate Crime Case Unraveled.


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