Criminal Injustice returns with a new season on Sept. 5, 2017. Until then, we're reposting some of our favorites. This episode originally aired June 20, 2017. 

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Being a federal judge is a lawyer’s dream job – lifetime tenure, sophisticated cases, and a good salary, too. So why did Kevin Sharp, a well-respected federal trial judge, give all this up just six years in?

Mandatory minimums are a problem for a lot of people on both sides of American courts, especially in the age of Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump.

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