A Trial Lawyer Answers the Most Searched Questions about the Criminal Justice System

Matt Martens Answers Questions about Criminal Justice

Matt Martens is a trial lawyer in Washington, DC who has spent most of his career in criminal law. He spent nine years as a federal prosecutor and more than ten years as a criminal defense lawyer. As a prosecutor, Martens worked on numerous capital murder cases, and as a defense attorney, he has represented an accused murderer.

In this video, Martens offers clear and candid answers to some of the most searched questions about criminal justice. Does plea bargaining undermine the criminal justice system? How do people receive multiple life sentences? Does the justice system favor the rich? He also brings clarity to questions about due process, the death penalty, qualified immunity, and many more.

Matthew T. Martens is the author of Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal.

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. Matt and his wife are members at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, and have two sons and a daughter.