CrimDef Atty & police/prison reform junkie. Former PubDef. Alum @Columbia @BerkeleyLaw TFA. Published in WashPost, Salon, Vanity Fair. Guest on MSNBC, NBC, NPR.
Republicans in the Louisiana House advanced a bill Wednesday that would classify abortion as homicide and allow prosecutors to criminally charge patients. https://t.co/YqCFg6JHIe
L.A. County public defenders are overworked. Right now,
there are attorneys in misdemeanors who are handling nearly 400 cases. Our lawyers are handling still more cases in a given year. 1/4
If you are a DA or Judge and you’re forcing someone to be held in a cage, you should be required to do that in person, in front of a live human-being and their family, instead of zoom from the comfort of your office or living room. #Enough
Two years ago today, Elijah McClain was taken off life support. Two years without justice. Officers stopped Elijah while he was walking home, placed him in a chokehold, and paramedics injected him with ketamine. No one has been held accountable.
Elijah should still be alive.
This is a crisis! 429 people are past their speedy trial deadline. 178 people are being held in a cage past their speed trial right. Basic constitutional rights are being denied everywhere b/c of pandemic but people can go to a Giants game. #Enough#OpenTheCourts
as i watched yesterday, i kept thinking of the two young (non-white) lawyers who are facing life in prison for *vandalizing an nypd* vehicle during blm protests. prosecutors choose whose crimes to target and how to target them. https://t.co/AlVw26Mwic