i also want to mention she has written a book about clara fultz. if you're interested, get a copy of sharon's book and get it on amazon or get it here in the lobby. i'm now going introduce our first panel. ordinary injustice. our first panel come from all over the united states. i'm going ask them now to join me on stage.

at 15, i met a handsome union soldier named jeremiah fultz and we eloped. we moved west to greener pasttures. first to oregon. then san jose, california. it was around 1876 and i had just had my fifth child. i was working at home as a dress maker and the sheriff came to the door and took my sewing machine for a debt that my husband owed. well, i knew this was illegal. i had been reading blackstone since i was 10. so i went to the court and i pled my own case and won. then, after that, mr. fultz decided he needed to go on to greener pasttures and he left so i realized that i was going to be the court of myself and my children. so i decided now is my chance to be a lawyer. why couldn't i be a lawyer? well, it is right there in the code. you have to be of good moral character. i'm that. you have to be over 21. i'm that. and a white male. so i simply took the code, took out white male, put in person and called it the laid lawyer bill and off i went to -- the lady lawyer bill and off i went to sacramento. there i was. now i had very little money so i was able to

i also want to mention she has written a book about clara fultz. if you're interested, get a copy of sharon's book and get it on amazon or get it here in the lobby. i'm now going introduce our first panel. ordinary injustice. our first panel come from all over the united states. i'm going ask them now to join me on stage. >> as i mentioned earlier, we are going to examine how injustice occurs. and we're going to be looking at not only big injustices but small ones and how they affect not only the way in which the criminal justice system either works or doesn't work but also how it affects the lives of every day people. our first panelist is amy bach. miss bach spent eight years studying courts throughout the country and she wrote a book called "ordinary injustice." it is really an incredible book that looks at the perspective of the justice system from a contract public defender's per spivet, a prosecutor's perspective and a judge's perspective and she was able to come up with some brilliant insights about not whoonl the problems are not only what

that the government will go forward, yes, because there is someone in italy that despite all of this fultz -- all of his faults. >> if he loses, italy may face fresh elections. if that happens, bernasconi says he plans to run for office again. >> i spoke earlier to a correspondent in rome, and he began by telling us how the political situation in rome has reached this point. >> things started to go wrong for berlusconi in the spring, when he came under challenge from his former deputy, and in july, that man's supporters broke away from berlusconi's group in parliament to form their own. since then, it has gone steadily downhill and brought us to this pass. >> what is the sense there? do you think it will be a close vote? >> yes, indeed. the latest news is that the other man's supporters, who looked to be splitting, some of them had the look that they might vote for berlusconi after all, but those supporters have come together behind the last- minute appeal, and if bernasconi continues to reject that appeal this evening, vote together, and that means that the outcome tomorrow could be a dea