Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Matthew Martens, entitled, "3 Things That Must Change about the American Justice System".

Matthew T. Martens (JD, University of North Carolina School of Law; MABS, Dallas Theological Seminary) is a trial lawyer and partner at an international law firm in Washington, DC. He has spent the bulk of his more than twenty-five-year legal career practicing criminal law both as a federal prosecutor and as a defense attorney. He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the US Supreme Court and also as a political appointee in the criminal division of the US Justice Department under Attorney General Ashcroft. His new book with Crossway is called 'Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal'.

Read the essay here.

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