SCOTUSblog on camera: David Porter part two

The complexities of redressing crime, sentencing guidelines for crack and powder cocaine, and losing a Supreme Court case on Californias three strikes law.

In this five-part series, David Porter talks about direct federal appeals,habeas corpus and being heard, changing ideas of crime, terrorism, and punishment; andthe realities of effective assistance of counsel fifty years afterGideon v. Wainwright.Mr Porter is an Assistant Federal Defender at the Office of the Federal Defender for theEastern District of California in Sacramento, California.