Criminal Court Logjam*

Leonard Downie, Jr., won the American Bar Association Gavel Award and the Library Bell Award of the Federal Bar Association for a 1966 series of articles on the Court of General Sessions in Washington, D.C. In addition to his book, Justice Denied (New York, Praeger, 1971), from which this article is taken, he was one of three principal contributors to the book Ten Blocks from, the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Biots of 1968 (New York: Praeger, 1968).