Jake Tapper

Jake Tapper is CNN’s chief Washington correspondent and the anchor of The Lead. He is the author of The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor.

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  1. Finally, Justice

    Two years ago, I wrote an Atlantic cover story about the case of C. J. Rice, a Philadelphia teenager convicted of attempted homicide. Today, he was exonerated. C. J. Rice is now a free man.

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    a portrait of C.J. Rice outdoors
    Caroline Gutman for The Atlantic

  2. This Is Not Justice

    A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment

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    painting of handcuffed man behind prison glass wearing maroon collared shirt holding black phone receiver with silver cord to his ear, with large tears on his face including one with a portrait of a smiling woman inside
    Painting by Fulton Leroy Washington (MR WASH). Source: Malike Sidibe for The Atlantic.