Jin Hee Lee joined LDF’s Criminal Justice Project in July 2008.  As Senior Counsel, Ms. Lee is engaged in advocacy to address racial biases in the criminal justice system.  She is lead counsel in Brister v. Mississippi, one of the first cases in the country to have a juvenile life without parole sentence declared unconstitutional under the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Miller v. Alabama.  She is a senior member of the legal team representing plaintiffs in Davis v. City of New York, which challenges unlawful trespass stops and arrests by NYPD officers in New York City’s public housing.  She also represents death-sentenced prisoners in state and federal post-conviction proceedings in Arkansas, Alabama, and Texas, raising claims of racial discrimination, ineffective assistance of counsel, and coerced confessions.