Behind Chapter 1

In Episode 1: we discuss the penfriend project and go behind the subject of standards of proof and the question of evidence in cases taken against an accused.  We also discuss letter writing and take a backward look at history and some of the outstanding people who were known for their letter writing – whose  letters have provided a valuable memoirs of  their experiences at different times in their history.  One such mentioned is Countess Markievicz whose collection of ‘Prison Letters’ gives us a sense of her life as a political prisoner after the 1916 Uprising in Ireland.   We also look at the fictional character of Atticus Finch who was the lawyer in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” who, in 1933-1935,  defended black people, who were wrongly accused of crimes in the deep south of the United States in an environment where black people got the brunt end of justice and all other aspects of civil and human rights.