Jean Maclean Snyder is an attorney who litigates civil and criminal cases involving human rights issues such as the treatment of mentally ill prisoners and the improper use of force by prison guards.  Recently, she obtained a “not guilty” verdict in the retrial of a man who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1986 by a judge who secretly took bribes to fix cases.  Now in private practice, Ms. Snyder formerly was trial counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.