Public Defenseless
By Hunter Parnell
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Anyone paying attention can tell you that our criminal legal system is perpetuating cruelty and harm, but the complexity of the legal world overwhelms most people simply trying to get through another day.
Public Defenseless explores the rot in the justice system and what we can do about it. Join host, Hunter Parnell, as he interviews top defense attorneys and criminal justice stakeholders from across the country as they pull apart the convoluted web of our criminal justice system.
Like so many of you, Hunter is not an attorney, simply tired of a news cycle and talking heads that offer no real solutions to the ever-growing list of problems we face. Hunter hopes that with this information, you will share his belief that ordinary people still can make a difference.
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170: The NDS Harlem Union's Fight for a Fair Contract Amidst New York's Housing Crisis w/William Botchway, Naomi Schachter, Jeremy Tinsley
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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169: How the Ever Expanding Pre-Trial Surveillance Impacts Alaska Public Defense w/Justin Racette
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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168: Alaska's Brief Moment of Criminal Justice Reform and their Turn to Tough on Crime Policies w/Mike Garvey and Megan Edge
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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BONUS: A New Database Providing Public Defenders the Latest Social Science Data for Court w/Eve Primus
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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167: Rebuilding the New York Legal Aid Society's Union Strength w/Jane Fox
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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166: How the Deck is Heavily Stacked Against Federal Public Defenders w/Colin Prince and Jay McEntire
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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165: Will a New Data Driven Approach Be the Key to the Future for Montana Public Defense w/Brett Schandelson
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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164: "Why Would You Even Ask That?" The Absurdity of America's Youth Justice System w/Iliana Pujols
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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163: Imagining Something Better than Washington's Patchwork Public Defender System w/Larry Jefferson
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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162: How the Georgia AG is using RICO to Punish Free Speech and Cop City Protesters w/Devin Franklin
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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161: The NAPD's Plan to Leverage the National Workload Study for Policy Victories w/Cydni Sanchez
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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160: Unveiling the National Public Defender Workload Standards and the Strategy to Implement Them w/Stephen Hanlon
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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159: The Communication Breakdown Eroding Trust in the Colorado Public Defender System w/Kiyomi Bolick, Mike Kubicek, and Oliver Rose Katz
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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158: What is Causing the Indiana Public Defender System to Fail w/Ashley Spolarich, Deana Martin, and Joel Schumm
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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157: The Racist History of the "Child Welfare" System w/Ieshaah Murphy
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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156: Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about It w/Jay Aronson
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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155: How the NY Legal Aid Created a Digital Forensics Unit to Push Back on the Power of Police and Prosecutors w/Jerome Greco
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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154: Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: Why the Use and Expansion of RICO is Bad w/Martin Sabelli
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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153: The Coalition Fighting to End the Trial Penalty w/Martin Sabelli and Nathan Pysno
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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152: The Political and Personal Agenda Behind Governor DeSantis' Removal of State Attorney Monique Worrell w/Andrew Darling
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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151: Without Trust Between Client and Counsel, Litigation is Limited w/Alexander Kostal
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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150: To Fix Detroit Public Defense, There Must be a Fair Contract for the Neighborhood Defender Services of Detroit w/Cait De Mott Grady, Tom Molina-Duarte, Jonathan Roberts
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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BONUS EPISODE: Another Not Guilty Podcast: Murder-ring The Prosecution's Theory w/David Moore and Hillary King
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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149: It's Time to Abolish the Legalized Theft that is Civil Forfeiture w/Dan Alban
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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148: Jury Nullification, Conscientious Acquittal, and the Fight To Regain Jury Independence w/Clark Neily
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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147: Because of its Systemic Indifference to Suffering, Oklahoma Keeps Punishing Domestic Violence Survivors w/Colleen McCarty and Leslie Briggs
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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146: The Fulton County Jail, Cop City, and the Deafening Silence of the Georgia Public Defense Council w/Devin Franklin
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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145: What Led to the Unionization of Maryland Public Defense w/Edie Fortuna and Jose Teneza
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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144: The Campaign to Close Rikers Island w/Richard Willstatter and Stan German
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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143: The Never Ending Torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at Guantanamo Bay w/Annie Morgan
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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142: The Fight for Human Rights at Guantanamo Bay w/John Baker
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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141: The Horrifying Surveillance Tech Coming to a Neighborhood Near You w/Dhruv Mehrotra
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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140: How to Use the Appellate System to Push Back on the Family Policing System w/Annick Lenoir-Peek
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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139: The Race and Class Dynamics Haunting the Connecticut Family Policing System w/Josh Michtom
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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138: The Driving Force Behind the Growth of Santa Barbara Public Defense w/Deepak Budwani
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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137: How the Civil Rights Corps is Uncovering and Challenging Prosecutorial Misconduct w/Peter Santina
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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136: If You Cannot Afford an Attorney, One Will not Be Appointed to You w/ Dr. Andrew Davies, Dr. Victoria Smiegocki, and Shelby Sirivore
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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135: While She Breathes, She Hopes for a Better Future for South Carolina Public Safety w/Cameron Blazer
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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134: The Colorado Bond Law Enriching the Bail Bond Industry w/Katie Yens
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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133: The Tech Solutions that can Propel Public Defense into the Future w/Rocky Ramirez
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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132: Autonomy to Decide: Managing an Effective Defense with a Challenging Client w/Randy Fiedler and Stacy Newman
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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131: How to Solve the Public Defender Shortage in Rural America w/Patrick Crowley, Michael Naughton and Jonathan Sacks
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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130: Poverty, Prison, and a Path to Redemption w/Champ Napier
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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129: It's Time to Value Paralegals and Social Workers as much as Attorneys w/ Latosha Watts and Taneal Behrens
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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128: Fostering the Public Voice of the Public Defender w/Kay Levine and Russell Gold
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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127: Secrets of the Killing State: How the Truth of Lethal Injection Could End the Death Penalty w/Corinna Lain
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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126: From Portland to Klamath Falls, Public Defense in Oregon is on Life Support w/Lee Wachocki and Eve Costello
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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125: You Might Go to Prison Even Though You're Innocent w/Justin Brooks
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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124: The Many Ways Alabama Denies People a Second Chance After Leaving Prison w/Stacey Fuller and Kathleen Henderson
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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123: How a Vicious Union Busting Campaign Could Cripple Louisville Public Defense w/Cat Vining and Morgan King
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May 30, 2023 |
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122: How the Municipal Public Defenders of Aurora, Colorado Fight Back Against Incompetence, Corruption, and Malpractice
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May 26, 2023 |
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121: 50 Shades of Grey Goes to Court: How to Present BDSM and Non-Monogamy in Court w/Jill Weinberg
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May 25, 2023 |
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120: The Bronx Defenders' Transformation from Scabs to Unionization w/Babatunde Aremu
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May 23, 2023 |
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119: Representing Youths is Just as Important as Representing Adults, and It's Time Public Defense Acted Like it w/Mary Ann Scali and HyeJi Kim
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May 18, 2023 |
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118: When Student Loan Payments Get Turned Back on, What Will Happen to Public Defense? w/Jane Fox and Kyle Morris
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May 16, 2023 |
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117: How the King County Public Defender Union is Becoming a Player in Washington Politics w/Elbert Aull
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May 11, 2023 |
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116: The Promise and Problems of Progressive Prosecution w/Keisha Hudson, Mano Raju and Ricardo Garcia
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May 09, 2023 |
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115: Is There a Better Way to Provide Public Defense w/James McDermott and Paul Chambers
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May 04, 2023 |
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114: How A Coalition of Prosecutors, City Attorneys, and Public Defenders Produces Better Working Conditions w/Alexandra Pray
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May 02, 2023 |
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113: A Broken Legal System, A Lack of Health Care, and How the US Keeps Puerto Rico Under its Thumb w/Diego Alcala
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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112: How Mitigation Confronts the Biases of Jurors, Judges, Prosecutors, and Public Defenders w/Victoria Rusk
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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111: A New Path for Public Safety in San Francisco w/Mano Raju
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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110: The Paper Prisons that Keep Millions of Americans From a Second Chance w/Colleen Chien and Alyssa Aguilar
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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109: What are a Lawyer's Ethical Obligations to Society? w/David Siegel
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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108: One Investigators Efforts to Revitalize Public Defense in Barron County, Wisconsin w/Felicia Tempel
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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107: Non-Capital Mitigation and the Quest to Inject Empathy into the Law w/Lindsay Bendell
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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106: How Unionization Enables Public Defenders to Get Victories in and Out of Court w/Garret Miller and Brooke Longuevan
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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105: Why it is so Difficult to Get the Innocent out of Prison w/Daniel Medwed
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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104: Unlocking the Potential of Public Defense in LA County w/Ricardo Garcia
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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103: How Public Defense is Failing in the West w/Emily Hamer
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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102: How the Delaware Law Enforcement Bill of Rights Keeps Cop Misconduct Hidden w/Kevin O'Connell, Misty Seemans, and Elliot Margules
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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101: Reflecting on Gideon v Wainwright, the Past, Present and Future of Public Defense w/Justine Olderman and Wes Caines
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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100: Do Sex Offender Registries Make Us Safer? w/David Garlock
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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99: There is no Public Defense Without Investigators w/Jon Lyon
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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98: Making the Case for the Abolition of Court Fees w/Priya Sarathy Jones
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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97: A Reason to Hope for Connecticut Public Defense w/TaShun Bowden-Lewis
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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96: How to Include the Formerly Incarcerated in Public Defense w/Anthony Graves
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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95: Why it's Time to Abolish Felony Murder Laws w/Nazgol Ghandnoosh
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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94: Where Will Maryland Public Defense Go With A New Chief Public Defender w/Natasha Dartigue
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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93: Why it is Time to Move Away from Assigned and Contract Public Defense Models w/Eve Primus
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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92: The Important Role Public Defense Played in New Jersey Bail Reform w/Joseph Krakora
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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91: If Iowa Public Defense is About to Collapse, What is Happening in Juvenile and Immigration Defense w/Rachel Antonuccio and Julia Zalenski
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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90: In Order to Review Hours of Video Evidence, Public Defenders Need New Tech w/Devshi Mehrotra
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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89: How to Pass on the Lessons from a 20+ Year Public Defender Career w/Andre Vitale
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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88: The Most Important Public Defense Victories Don't Happen in the Court Room w/Sam Allison Natale
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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87: How to Make the Case for Public Defense in a Conservative State w/Diane Lozano
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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86: The Resurrection of New York Public Defense w/Patricia Warth
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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85: The Challenges Public Defense Faces in Rural Georgia w/Michael Smith
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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84: How Anne Arundel County, MD Prosecutors Over Incarcerate the Community w/Felipe Gonzalez
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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83: The Everyday Citizens Uncovering Oklahoma Police and Prosecutor Misconduct
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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82: The Tech NonProfit Accelerating People Out of the U.S. Justice System w/Serena Chang
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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81: How to Craft Ethical Tech Solutions to the Many Issues with the Legal System w/Jason Tashea
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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80: Staff Assaults, A Decade in Solitary, and the Many Horrors of Massachusetts' Prisons w/Elizabeth Matos
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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79: What Could Yolo County Public Defenders Do if They Weren't Funded $16 Million Less than the Prosecutors? w/Tracie Olson
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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78: What's Plaguing Public Defense in Oakland County Michigan and New Hampshire? w/David Carroll
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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77: The Fallout of the Dobbs Decision on Louisiana Reproductive Healthcare w/Gwyneth O'Neill, Ellie Schilling and Michelle Erenberg
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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76: Trying to Keep Public Defense in North Dakota from Collapsing w/Travis Finck
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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75: Opioids, Addiction, and the Alabama Despair Machine w/Leah Nelson and Stacey Fuller
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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74: How Public Defenders can Take Back the Public Safety Narrative w/Emily-Galvin Almanza and Danielle Hopkins
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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73: How a Sixth Amendment Center Report Sparked Change in Utah Public Defense w/Richard Mauro
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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72: Why it is Time to End Life Sentences w/Alexandra Bailey and Nazgol Ghandnoosh
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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71: Every Public Defender Office Needs an Immigration Attorney w/Raha Jorjani
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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70: Challenging America's Punishment Bureaucracy w/Alec Karakatsanis
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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69: The Need for Holistic Family Representation w/Center for Family Representation New York
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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68: Why do we Punish People? w/Kaelen Perrochet
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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67: Managed Assigned Counsel: A Savvy Solution or a Simple Stop Gap? w/Jim Bethke
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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66: Is Incrementalism Enough to Fix the Criminal Legal System w/Jeff Blackburn
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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65: What Happened to the Prisoners Stuck in Jail During Hurricane Ian? w/Kathy Smith
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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64: How Public Defense can Win the Media Battle w/Maggie Shepard
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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63: Why do We Punish Domestic Violence Survivors? w/Alexandra Bailey
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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62: Why Does the Aurora City Council Want to Dismantle the Public Defender Office w/Doug Wilson
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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61: Uncovering the Misconduct of Police, Prosecutors, and Judges w/Johann Drolshagen
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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60: How Kansas Public Defense Got Headed in the Right Direction w/Heather Cessna
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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59: The Lawsuit Pushing to Change the Wisconsin Public Defense w/John Birdsall and Hank Schultz
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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58: Are Public Defense Unions the Key to Systemic Reform? w/Sam Allison-Natale and Bob Kolstad
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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57: Why More People and Public Defenders Need to Think and Advocate Systemically w/Olayemi Olurin
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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56: Could Veteran Treatment Courts be the Key to Unlocking Criminal Justice Reforms? with David Pelletier
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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55: Capital Representation and the Office of the Defender General w/Andrea Lyon
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Andrea Lyon on the Need for the Defender General
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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54: The Public Defense Union Pushing to Change Colorado Public Defense with The Defender's Union of Colorado
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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53: What is Causing the Crisis in Oregon Public Defense w/Chris O'Connor
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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52: The Court Fines and Fees that Fund Alabama with Adam Danneman and Leah Nelson
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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51: The Texas Capital Punishment System is Designed to Kill w/Ray Keith
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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50: The Fees Making People Pay for Their "Free" Attorney w/Marea Beeman
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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49: How did Arizona Become so Pro-Mass Incarceration and What Can be Done About it? w/Nate Wade and Katie Gipson-McLean
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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48: The Recent Victories Igniting New Hope for Missouri Public Defense w/Mary Fox
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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47: In Small-Town Georgia, A Broken Taillight Can Lead to Spiraling Debt w/Nick Barber
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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46: Fighting Gun Violence Without Using Mass Incarceration in Cook County, IL w/Sharone Mitchell
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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45: Lawyers, Social Workers, Investigators, and the Whole Team that Makes the NAPD w/Lori James-Townes
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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44: Community Outreach and Staffing Shortages in Miami Public Defense w/Carlos Martinez
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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43: The Problem with Plea Deals with Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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42: The Essential Role of Social Work and Mitigation Specialists in Public Defense with Justin Heim
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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41: Turning Public Defender Priorities into Public Policy Victories with Brad Haywood and Bryan Kennedy
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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40: How Moral Injury, Stress, and Trauma Impact Public Defense with Jenny Andrews
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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39: The Power of Public Advocacy in Alameda County Public Defense with Brendon Woods
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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38: Can the Michigan Model Pave the Way for Public Defense? with Kristen Staley
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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37: How to Train the Next Generation of Public Defense Leaders with Jeff Sherr and Heather Hall
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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36: Kentucky PD and The National Association of Public Defense with Ernie Lewis
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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35: Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Student Debt with Jane Fox and Kyle Morris
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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34: The History of Public Defense with Sara Mayuex
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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33: How Could Low Attorney Pay Cripple Massachusetts Public Defense w/Anthony Benedetti
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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32: Why Nevada Public Defense Failed and the Plan to Build it Back w/Franny Forsman
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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31: The Wrongful Conviction of Cyrus Wilson with Cyrus Wilson and Dawn Deaner
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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30: How Tennessee Fails to Protect Children Accused of Crimes w/Mark Stephens
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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29: The Role a Judge can Play in Reforming Public Defense w/Tom Boyd
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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28: Public Defense Commissions with David Kaplan and Sara Hildebrand
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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27: The Innocence of Barry Jones and the Impacts of Shinn vs Ramirez with Sylvia Lett and Andrew Sowards
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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26: Junk Science and the Makings of a Wrongful Conviction with Chris Fabricant
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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25: The Need for Mercy in the Kentucky Legal System w/Ed Monahan
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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24: How the Media Poisons Criminal Justice Discourse with Scott Hechinger
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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23: Gideon's Promise and Public Defense Culture with Jon Rapping
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May 25, 2022 |
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22: How Automation Can Help Public Defense with Rocky Ramirez and Paul Chambers
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May 18, 2022 |
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21: Public Defense Appellate Law and PD Commissions with Frances Brown
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May 11, 2022 |
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20: Representing Mothers in Tulsa, Oklahoma with Aisha McWeay
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May 04, 2022 |
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19: How Pennsylvania's Failure to Fund Public Defense Hurts Everyone w/Keisha Hudson
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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18: Data-Driven Public Defense Policy with Stephen Hanlon
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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17: Public Defenseless 202
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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16: Can Assigned Counsel Public Defense System Work? w/Tim Rensch & Bob Pesall
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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15: Was a Lawsuit Enough to Fix Missouri Public Defense? w/Anthony Rothert
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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14: West Virginia Public Defense with Dana Eddy & Stacey Fragile
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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13: How Florida Disregards the Right to Counsel w/Rex Dimmig
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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12: Why Are Virginia Public Defenders Only Paid to Work on a Case for Two Hours? w/Amari Harris
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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11: Is the Cannabis Industry Falling Short in its Fight? with Steve DeAngelo
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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10: How did Colorado Build one of the Best Public Defense Systems? w/Doug Wilson
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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09: What Can Cannabis Reform Teach us About Criminal Justice Reform with Christian Sederberg
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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08: Why Did Indiana's Public Defense System Fail? w/Larry Landis
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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07: The Power of Creating an Independent Public Defense System w/Ben Baur
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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06: How the Louisiana Public Defenders are Paid to Lose w/Derwyn Bunton & Trisha Ward
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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05: What's Causing the Crisis in Maine's Public Defense System w/Justin Andrus
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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04: Why is Public Defense Failing Nationwide? with David Carroll
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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03: Texas Public Defense with James McDermott and Scott Ehlers
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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02: Why is it Common for People to be Held for a Year With No Attorney in Mississippi? w/Andre De Gruy
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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01: Public Defense 101
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Welcome to Public Defenseless
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Dec 14, 2021 |