All Episodes

515 | How Public Defense is Failing in Rural California w/Rio Scharf and Josh Schwartz

514 | How the Prison System fails to Offer Second Chances w/Jesse Crosson

513 | How to Teach Kids to Think like a Public Defender w/Emily Galvin Almanza

512 | How Public Advocacy Secured Missouri Public Defenders Pay Parity and Much More w/Matthew Crowell and Jet McDonald

511 | God Forgives, Brothers Don't: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood w/Jasper Craven

510 | What are a Defense Lawyer's Ethical Obligations When They Use A.I.? w/Mason Clark

509 | How to Create Workload Standards for Public Defenders w/Malia Brink

508 | Will Underfunding Push the Defenders Association of Philadelphia to Stop Accepting New Cases? w/Keisha Hudson

507 | Robin "Rocky" Myers was Wrongfully Convicted of Murder. Was his Defense Lawyer in the Ku Klux Klan? w/Leah Nelson

506 | Pink Crime: How to Fight the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity w/Valena Beety

505 | Will Automation Make it Harder to Keep Junk Science out of Court? w/Lisa Waters

504 | By Helping Victims and Perpetrators, Domestic Violence can Be Solved Without Relying on the Criminal Legal System w/Liz Ortenburger

503 | Why is the NDS Union on Strike? UPDATE THEY WON!! w/Ashley Munger, Katherine Shamsie, and Samantha Rudelich

502 | How a Not Guilty Verdict in a Homicide Case Shows the Promise of Idaho's Statewide Public Defense System w/Eric Fredericksen and Doug Nelson

501 | Why Public Defenders Need the Insights and Expertise of Formerly Incarcerated People in Their Offices w/Jennifer Jennison and Sammy Provencio

500 | Public Defense is Underfunded, but by How Much? Putting a Conservative Number on the Cost of the Right to Counsel w/Ben Polk

499 | When Delays in the Appointment of Counsel Violate the Constitution w/Eve Primus

498 | How the Allegheny County Public Defender is Getting their Clients Out of Custody and into Care w/Alena Chulick

497 | How Did the Tribal Defenders Office of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Build a Model Holistic Defender Service w/Ann Miller, Susette Billedeaux, and Josh Cahoon

496 | Why the Lawyers Handling 80% of Massachusetts's Public Defender Cases Stopped Taking New Cases Part 2 w/Shira Diner

495 | Will a Severe Budget Deficit in Santa Clara County Require the Public Defender to Stop Taking New Cases? w/Damon Silver

494 | Why did the Spokane County Public Defenders Sue the County Over New Workload Requirements? w/Colin Charbonneau and Victoria Blumhorst

493 | Two Oregon Public Defenders Sued the Oregon Public Defense Commission and Won. Now What? w/Shannon Wilson and Stacey Lowe

492 | How Will Pennsylvania Respond to its Supreme Court Striking Down Mandatory LWOP for Felony Murder Convictions? w/Nia Holston and Sean Damon

491 | The Hidden Punishments in Pre-Trial Detention That Disproportionately Impact LGBTQ People w/Deborah Lolai

490 | How the Civil Rights Corps Secured a Massive Victory in the Fight Against Cash Bail w/Salil Dudani and Carson White

489 | Why did a 35 Year Career Prosecutor Walk Away from the DOJ Under the Second Trump Administration? w/John Haried

488 | How Public Defenders Can Fight for Our Clients and for Funding by Engaging with the Media w/Maggie Shepard and Bob McGovern

487 | Iowa Public Defender Secured a Major Victory for Workload Controls, but will New Tough on Crime Policies Send the System into a Crisis? w/Eric Tindal

486 | How to Ensure Local Governments Cannot Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement w/Alex Kornya

485 | Will Utah Force Homeless People to Move to a Camp Outside of Salt Lake City? w/Nate Crippes

484 | How the Hamilton County, Ohio Public Defenders are Holding Police and Prosecutors Accountable w/Angela Chang and Sean Vicente

483 | How Progressive Politics can Abolish ICE and Build a More Humane Immigration System w/Senator Julie Gonzales

482 | How the Colorado State Public Defender's Policy on Workloads Might Violate a Lawyer's Ethical Obligations w/Jim Castle

481 | Was a Former Colorado Public Defender Fired for Raising Concerns over his Workload? Part 2 w/Travis Weiner

480 | Did the Colorado Public Defender Retaliate Against Me for My Speech on the Podcast?

479 | What Data Tells Us About the Public Defender Well Being Crisis Part 2 w/Jenny Andrews, Matthew Thiese, and Sara McCarthy

478 | The Effect of Public Defender and Support Staff Caseloads on Incarceration Outcomes for Felony Defendants w/Aaron Gottlieb and Melissa Mahabir

477 | What Data Tells Us About the Public Defender Well Being Crisis Part 1 w/Jenny Andrews and Jon Jachimowicz

476 | What Can Public Defender Organizations Do to Help People With Their Student Debt? w/Jane Fox and Alexi Shalom

475 | Why is Cook County's State Attorney Fighting to Keep Exonerated People From Getting Certificates of Their Innocence w/Dan Hinkel

474 | The Lawyer Who Will Take on Corporations and Corrupt Government as Colorado's Attorney General w/David Seligman

473 | Public Defenders Should Tell the Courts and Their Clients How Many Cases they Have w/John Gross

472 | Can Former Public Defenders Improve the Bench in Multnomah County, Oregon? w/Kristine Almquist, Joe Hagedorn, Peter Klym, Joanna Perini-Abott, Chris Behre

471 | The Science of Second Chances w/Jennifer Doleac

470 | Why did the Marion County Public Defenders Decide to Unionize Their Office w/Lucy Frick and Tim Smith

469 | How Tennessee's Mass Incarceration Policies are Making the State less Safe w/Dawn Deaner

468 | How the New Jersey Public Defenders are Integrating AI into their Work w/Jennifer Sellitti

467 | How Coroners Keep How People Die While in Police Custody Hidden from the Public w/Terence Keel

466 | The Lawsuit Challenging How Missouri Treats People with Mental Illness Being Held Pre-Trial w/Maureen Hanlon and Anita Tabb

465 | The Fines and Fees Justice Center's Campaigns to Break the Invisible Shackles of Court Fees and Fines w/Dylan Hayre and Emily King

464 | The Public Defender Hoping to Bring a New Generation of Leadership to Congress w/Vichal Kumar

463 | How the Defenders Association of Philadelphia is Resisting Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda w/Lilah Thompson and Maria Thomson

462 | How Restorative Justice Could Transform What Public Safety Looks Like w/Amanda Carrasco

461 | How to Empower Social Workers in Public Defender Offices w/Kay Edwards

460 | How California's Failure to Fund Public Defense is Hurting Everyone w/Tracie Olson

459 | What will Happen if Washington State does not Figure Out How to Fund Public Defense at the State Level? w/Matt Sanders

458 | How Public Defense is Sold to the Lowest Bidder in Rural California w/Anat Rubin

457 | How Washington Built One of the Best Family Defense Teams in the Country w/Brett Ballew and Tonia McClanahan

456 | How Public Defenders can Help Stop Family Separations w/Mary Anne Mendenhall

455 | What Can be Done to Slow the Spread of Mass Surveillance? w/Jay Stanley

454 | The Public Defender Running to get Ritchie Torres Out of Congress w/Dalourny Nemorin

453 | How America's Mass Surveillance State is Making it More Likely that Your Data Will be Used Against You w/Andrew Ferguson

452 | With a Budget Shortfall Looming, What Comes Next for Maine Public Defense w/Frayla Tarpinian

451 | How the Tough on Crime Lobby Influences Colorado Criminal Justice Policy w/Kyle Giddings and Rebecca Wallace

450 | How Has New York's Bail Reform Laws Impacted Public Safety? w/Rene Ropac

449 | How the People of Minneapolis Organized to Resist ICE, CBP, and DHS w/Brandon Garcia, Maggie Bott, and Bob Kolstad

448 | How the History of the New York Police Department Reveals the Essential Problems with Policing w/Matthew Guariglia

447 | Why did an Oregon Public Defender Sue the Oregon Public Defense Commission? Part 2 w/Stacey Lowe

446 | Why did an Oregon Public Defender Sue the Oregon Public Defense Commission? Part 1 w/Shannon Wilson and Stephen Hanlon

445 | How We Can Improve Public Safety with Mercy and Compassion w/Emily Galvin Almanza

444 | What Can Help Fix the Public Defense Crisis in Rural California? w/Luke Brownfield

443 | Will San Joaquin County Public Defenders be the Next Office to Stop Taking New Cases? w/Judyanne Vallado

442 | How Alameda County Public Defense is Dealing w/Increased Workloads and ICE at the Courthouse w/Brendon Woods

441 | With Dems in Control, Will Virginia Finally Pass More Progressive Criminal Justice Policies? w/Rob Poggenklass and Bryan Kennedy

440 | How Public Defenders Can Build Political Coalitions that Support Criminal Justice Policy Reforms w/Stephen Saloom

439 | The Lawsuit Challenging Louisiana's use of Slave Labor on Angola's Infamous "Farm Line" w/Samantha Pourciau

438 | How to Build Emotional Intelligence Skills in Public Defense w/Ali Bloomquist and Cherise Fanno Burdeen PhD

437 | The Cruelty is the Point: Immigration Detention Expansion Under the Trump Administration w/Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

436 | The New York Laws that Could Chip Away at the State's Mass Incarceration Policies w/Thomas Gant

435 | How Alaska is Punishing American Samoans for Believing They Had the Right to Vote w/Alex Burness

434 | Why is a San Francisco Judge Threatening to hold the Public Defender in Contempt? w/Mano Raju

433 | How Pre-Trial Mitigation Can Save People From Incarceration w/Max Miner

432 | How the Denver Municipal Public Defenders Interrupt the Punishment of Poverty w/Alex Flood and Dan Fitzgerald

431 | Lessons Learned from Public Defender Offices Trying to Implement Workload Standards w/Jessie Lenhardt

430 | How Las Vegas Casinos Got a Special Court that Allows them to Punish Poverty on the Las Vegas Strip w/Dallas Anselmo and Olivia Miller

2025 Wrap Up

429 | How Technology Can Improve Public Defense in and out of the Courtroom w/Mohammed Al Rawi and Ryan Wolfe

428 | How Will New Leadership Handle Missouri Public Defender's Low Pay and the State's Mental Health Resource Crisis w/Matthew Crowell

427 | What Happened to Public Defense in Stanislaus County After They Started Talking About Not Taking New Cases? w/Jennifer Jennison

426 | The Conservative Arkansas County Trying to Stop a Prison Being Built Next Door w/Lauren Gill

*AUDIO FIXED* 425 | How Ramsey County Prosecutors and Public Defenders are Collaborating to Improve the Legal System w/John Choi and Greg Egan

424 | If You Cannot Afford an Attorney, None Will Be Appointed to You w/Andrew Davies and Shelby Sirivore

423 | How the Los Angeles Public Defender is Revolutionizing the Representation of People with Neurocognitive Disorders w/Noah Cox

422 | What Does it Take to Undo California's Legacy of Mass Incarceration? w/Danielle Harris

421 | How the Law Makes it So Easy for Prosecutors to Withhold Evidence w/Justin Murray

420 | Did the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Defender Services Flagrantly try to Union Bust? w/Heather Stoloff and Andie Markowitz

419 | Why did The CJA Panel in New Mexico Stop Accepting New Cases? w/Ryan Villa

418 | The Organization Trying to Help More than 195,000 Afghan Allies Find Safety w/Shawn VanDiver

417 | How a Jailhouse Lawyer Challenged Louisiana's Mass Incarceration from Inside Angola Prison w/Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull

416 | How Louisiana Built the Project of Mass Incarceration w/Nick Weldon and Eric Seiferth

415 | How the Detroit Justice Center is Helping People Eliminate Their Court Fines and Fees w/Nancy A. Parker and Rubina Mustafa

414 | How California Built a Database to Track Police Misconduct w/Katey Rusch

413 | How New Mexico Joined in On the Fight to End Harmful Court Fines and Fees w/Joanna Weiss

412 | How Pre-Trial Services Can Reduce Incarceration w/David Bennett

411 | How Private Criminal Defense Lawyers Are Trying to Solve Colorado's Rural Attorney Shortage Crisis w/Kristin Ladd, Mesa Anderson, and Blue Daniels

410 | How to Meet the Needs of Incarcerated Women w/Emily Salisbury

409 | How Will Maryland Public Defense Handle It's Workload Crisis and a Slate of New Criminal Law Policies w/Natasha Dartigue

408 | How Georgia's New "Tough on Crime" Laws Could Make Communities Even Less Safe w/Blake Feldman

407 | How Hennepin County has Expanded the Right to Counsel to Civil Legal Issues w/ Jeanette Boerner, Jessica Ryan and Terrance Hendricks

406 | How the Cook County Prosecutor Has Made it Harder for the Wrongfully Convicted to Find Justice w/Dan Hinkel

405 | How The Miami Public Defenders Got Their Workloads Under Control w/Carlos Martinez

404 | How Enforcing Workload Standards Changed the Culture and the Future of Montana Public Defense

403 | Is this the Start of Public Defense Expanding in Mississippi? w/Andre de Gruy

402 | Defense Lawyering in the Progressive Prosecution Era w/Jenny Roberts

401 | Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back w/Joshua Clark Davis

400 | Why the Lawyers Handling 80% of Massachusetts's Public Defender Cases Stopped Taking New Cases w/Shira Diner

399 | Unequal Scales: California's Investment Disparity Between Prosecution and Public Defense w/Caneel Fraser and Tatyana Kaplan

398 | How Public Defenders can Combat Copaganda w/Alec Karakatsanis

397 | The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories that Define Them w/John J Lennon

396 | What Will it Take to Revive the Jury? w/Will Snowden

395 | A New Partners for Justice Toolkit to Help Public Defenders w/Vichal Kumar

394 | What Can Data Tell us About New York's Discovery Reform? w/Michael Rempel and Anna Stenkamp

393 | Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement w/Christopher Blackwell

392 | Can Public Defenders Become a Greater Check on the Three Branches of Government? w/Chesa Boudin and Eric Fish

391 | Debating The Problems and Promises of the Public Defender National Workload Study Part 2 w/Bob Boruchowitz

390 | Debating the Problems and Promises of the Public Defender National Workload Study Part 1 w/John Gross

389 | How Cook County Public Defenders are Preparing for Trump Deploying the National Guard to Chicago w/Sharone Mitchell Jr. and Sharlyn Grace

388 | How Public Defenders Can Make it Easier to Win More Courtroom Arguments w/Eve Primus

387 | The Junk "Science" Cops Use to Stop, Frisk, and Search People w/Amanda Savage

386 | Why Have the Private Defense Lawyers who Take 40% of Federal Public Defense Cases Stopped Getting Paid? w/Renae Alt-Summers and Mekka Jeffers-Nelson

385 | How a Public Defender Fought for a Better Legal System in the Utah State Legislature w/Grant Miller

384 | How Texas is Trying to Improve Access to Family Defense Attorneys w/Crystal Leff-Piñon

383 | How Can Texas Solve its Shortage of Rural Public Defender Crisis? w/Scott Ehlers

382 | What Stopped North Dakota Public Defenders from Refusing New Cases? w/Travis Fink

381 | With a Shortage of Lawyers and Too Many Cases, Will New Mexico Public Defenders Need to Stop Taking New Cases? w/Ben Baur

380 | How Washington is Helping People Who Have been Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity w/Tim Ray Johnson, Dennis Calhoun, and Amanda Ulrich

379 | How Washington is Trying to Recruit and Keep Lawyers in Rural Parts of the State w/ Nat Jacob, Elizabeth Mustin, Rachel Cortez

378 | Why is Oklahoma Going to Execute a Man who Didn't Kill Anyone? w/Amanda Bass Castro Alves

377 | How Was a Man Convicted of Murder When He Wasn't in the State When the Crime Occurred? w/Erica Nichols Cook

376 | How a Law School Clinic is Trying to Prevent Gun Violence Through Litigation w/Megan Walsh and Anthony Benz

375 | The Law Clinic Helping Public Defenders Fight Back Against New Police Technology w/Megan Graham

374 | How were Incarcerated People Impacted by the NY Correctional Officers' Illegal Wild Cat Strike? w/Emily Napier Singletary and Derek Singletary

373 | How a Public Defender Investigator Unsolved a Murder w/Anat Rubin

372 | The Community Organizers Helping Detroit Reach its Lowest Crime Rate in 60 Years w/Dujuan "Zoe" Kennedy

371 | The Cruelty Kids Face at the Intersection of Criminal and Immigration Law w/Claire Valentin and Hayley Upshaw

370 | How Public Defenders Can Make a Difference in Immigration Defense w/Ali Saidi

369 | Why California Has and Needs its Immigration Sanctuary Laws w/Angela Chan

368 | The Fight to Abolish the Death Penalty in Delaware w/Kevin O'Connell

367 | After a Rocky Start, What Does the Future Hold for Idaho's New State Public Defender System w/Eric Fredericksen

366 | How Public Defenders Can Create Equitable Public Safety Policies w/Hans Menos and Rob Kenter

365 | How San Francisco Public Defenders Used the Racial Justice Act to Combat Implicit Racial Bias in the Legal System w/Sujung Kim and Lilah Wolf

364 | How Cops Mess Up the Investigation Child Sex Assault Cases w/Christina Sally and Chris Bertram

363 | Why is the LA County DA Bringing Back Death Penalty Prosecutions? w/Ricardo Garcia

362 | Is Illinois Taking the First Step to Establish State Wide Public Defense? w/Elisabeth Pollock and Stephanie Kollmann

361 | How a New Bail Law and Immigration Enforcement is Impacting Public Defense in Charleston, South Carolina w/Cameron Blazer

360 | Is There a Better Way to Teach Criminal Law Part II w/Andrew Crespo

359 | Is There a Better Way to Teach Criminal Law? Part I w/Alice Ristroph

358 | Why has the San Francisco Public Defender Stopped Taking New Cases One Day a Week? w/Mano Raju

357 | Why are Minnesota Public Defenders Trying to Form an Independent Union? w/Bob Kolstad, Maggie Bott, Olivia Henstein

356 | How the Chief Public Defender of Louisiana is Retaliating Against Public Defenders who Oppose his Power Grab w/Jim Boren

355 | How Missouri Public Defenders are Leading the Nation In Statewide Holistic Defender Services w/Missouri Public Defenders

354 | With so Many Good Things Happening in Massachusetts, When Will Public Defenders Finally Get They Pay Raises they Deserve? w/Anthony Benedetti

353 | After 18 Years in Prison, How One Man is Still Fighting to Prove his Innocence w/Ivery Dorsey

352 | How Public Defense in Harris County Texas Evolved from a Contract System to a Holistic One w/Alex Bunin

351 | How Flat-Fee Contracts Undermine the Right to Counsel in California w/Josh Schwartz

350 | The Tech Company Helping Public Defenders Track and Exploit Police Misconduct w/Julie Ciccolini

349 | The ACLU Lawsuit Helping to Radically Reimagine Public Defense in Maine w/Zachary Heiden, Carol Garvan, and Eve Primus

RE-RELEASE: Secrets of the Killing State: How the Truth of Lethal Injection Could End the Death Penalty w/Corinna Lain

348 | How Prosecutors, Cops, and an ICE Agent Conspired to Kidnap a Man in the Middle of his Trial w/Murat Erkan

347 | How Participatory Defense has and can help Minnesota Public Defenders w/Damon Drake

346 | The Revival of Public Defense in Santa Cruz County California w/Heather Rogers and Caitlin Becker

345 | Will Governor Jeff Landry's Push to Execute More People get an Innocent Man Killed? w/Piper French

344 | When Public Defenders Support Community Organizing, Community will Organize to Support Public Defense w/Heather Lewis

343 | How the Neglect and Indifference of the Jefferson County Jail Killed a 76 Year Old Man Suffering from Parkinson's and Dementia w/Darold Killmer and Maddie Lips

342 | What was Revealed about the Death Penalty When a Man on Death Row Volunteered to be Executed? w/Gianna Toboni

341 | Why did a Judge Stop a Defense Lawyer from Showing the Jury the Complaining Witness's Habit of Fabricating Evidence w/Blake Weiner

340 | The Amendment to Louisiana's Constitution that is Trying to Make it Easier to Send Kids to Angola Prison w/Kristen Rome

339 | Did One Woman Coerce her Foster Kids into Wrongfully Accusing their Family of Sexual Abuse? w/Amy Parker

338 | How Trump is Using the Alien Enemies Act to Destroy Due Process Protections w/Nayna Gupta

337 | How Does Silicon Valley De-Bug San Mateo Hope to Improve Public Defense and the Criminal Legal System w/Ana Ramirez Zarate and Lourdes Best

336 | How the San Mateo Private Defender Program is Trying to Earn Back the Community's Trust w/Lisa Maguire and Harpreet Samra

335 | How Sec Def Austin Interfered with the 9/11 and U.S.S. Cole Case Plea Deals w/Allison Miller and Katie Carmon

334 | Was a Former Colorado Public Defender Fired for Raising Concerns over his Workload? w/Travis Weiner

333 | How The American Eugenics Movement Helped Create Habitual Offender Laws w/Daniel Loehr

332 | The Coalition Fighting to Save New York's Discovery Laws w/Amanda Jack and Kalle Condliffe

331 | How the Far West Texas Public Defenders Uncovered a Pattern of Discovery Violations in El Paso w/James McDermott and Paul Chambers

330 | The Fight to Reform Oklahoma's Failure to Protect Laws w/Alexandra Bailey and Cindy Nguyen

329 | Prosecutorial Reform and the Myth of Individualized Enforcement w/Justin Murray

328 | How the Laken Riley Act Could Get Innocent People Sent to Guantanamo Bay w/Ann Block and Nithya Nathan-Pineau

327 | Should we Have Universal Public Defense w/Alexis Hoag-Fordjour

326 | How Cuyahoga County Jail Keeps Prisoners from their Family and Records their Conversations w/Nikki Baszynski

325 | Is Kansas Public Defense on the Verge of a Crisis? w/Heather Cessna

324 | The Fight to End Youth Shackling and Limit Mass Surveillance in Virginia w/Rob Poggenklass and Bryan Kennedy

323 | How One Inconsistent Eye Witness Led to the Wrongful Conviction of Ivery Dorsey w/Kerrie Liang

322 | The Impact of and the Resistance to Mass Deportation Policies w/Hans Meyer and Holly Lucas

321 | How Virginia Prison Officials Lied About Red Onion Prisoner Lighting Themselves on Fire w/Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

320 | Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons w/Brittany Friedman

319 | How a Petty Theft Could get you 180 Days in Jail in Rifle Municipal Court w/Scott Troxell

318 | How to Fight and Abolish the Death Penalty Outside of the Courtroom w/Abraham Bonowitz

317 | How Pueblo Municipal Court Used Contempt of Court to Send People to Jail for Years w/Keri Williams

316 | The Everyday Cruelty in Westminster Municipal Court w/Alison Gordon

315 | How People Are Denied the Right to Counsel in Grand Junction Municipal Court w/Tristan Gorman and Rebecca Wallace

314 | The Policies Making Colorado More "Tough on Crime" w/Tristan Gorman and Rebecca Wallace

BONUS: Discussion/Debate w/a Former Cop about The Killing of Roger Fortson, The Execution of Marcellus Williams and The Citation of a Homeless Pregnant Woman in KY

2024 Wrap Up, Top 10 Episodes of 2024, and What is Next for the Show

313 | How Marsy's Law is Undermining the Criminal Legal System w/Ráchael Powers

312 | How to Create More Opportunities to Fight the Government's Case Pre-Trial w/Chesa Boudin and Eric Fish

311 | How the Supreme Court Injected Chaos and Confusion into the Second Amendment w/Jacob Charles

310 | How the Junk Science Shaken Baby Syndrome Infected the Criminal Legal System w/Dr. Julie Mack and Randy Papetti

309 | The Problems and Promise of Public Defense in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania w/Rob Perkins and Dan Eichinger

308 | How the Fear of Too Much Justice Keeps Our Legal System Cruel w/Stephen Bright

307 | Why Are Prisoners at Virginia's Red Onion Prison Severely Burning Themselves? w/Phil Wilayto

306 | Why it's Nearly Impossible to Hold the Government Accountable for Violating your Rights w/Joanna Schwartz

305 | How Prosecutors Might get Rewarded for Messing Up the Harvey Weinstein Case w/Amanda Jack

304 | One Step Forward and Two Steps Back Mississippi Public Defense w/Andre de Gruy

303 | How A.I. Can Help Public Defenders Challenge Police and Prosecutors Part 2 w/Prabhas Pokharel

302 | How A.I. is Helping Police and Prosecutors Surveil, Arrest, and Incarcerate People w/Andrew Ferguson

301 | How A.I. Can Help Public Defenders Challenge Police and Prosecutors Part 1 w/IV Ashton

300 | How Mitigation is Helping Veterans Escape the Criminal Legal System w/Nancy Farrell and Dee Miller

299 | How NAPD is Fostering a National Forum for Public Defense Innovations w/Jeff Sherr

298 |What the History of ULCA's Police Department Tells Us About the Issues with Campus Police w/Andrew Guerrero

297 | The Successes and Failings of Plea Bargaining in Europe w/Rebecca Shaeffer

296 | How South Dakota is Fixing its Public Defense Crisis w/Aditi Goel

295 | What Can be Learned About Plea Bargaining from Japan's Failed Plea Experiment w/Lucian Dervan

294 | A Judicial Candidate Speaks Out Against Retaliation by a High Ranking Member of Oregon Public Defense w/Rachel Philips

293 | Does Bail Reform Impact Crime Rates? w/Ames Grawert

292 | How Participatory Defense Gets the Community Involved in the Courtroom w/Raj Jayadev

291 | How the Innocence Project of New Orleans is Fighting to Keep the Innocent out of Prison w/Jee Park

290 | How Louisiana's Governor is Reviving the "Super Predator" Myth to Police, Prosecute and Jail Young People w/Hannah Van De Car

289 | The Horrible Direction Louisiana Public Defense is Headed Under its New Leadership w/Derwyn Bunton

288 | The Problems and Potential for Utah's Patchwork Youth Defense System w/Pam Vickrey

287 | How California Law Enforcement Agencies are Keeping Police Misconduct Hidden w/Katey Rusch

286 | The Courts Giving Young People the Specialized Resources they Need to Succeed w/Paul Bowen and Jacqueline van Wormer

285 | How the Civil Legal System Makes it Difficult to Hold Larry Nassar, the Catholic Church, and Other Powerful Organizations Accountable w/Parker Stinar

284 | How Alabama's Fines and Fees Fail Criminal Defendants, Victims, and the Entire State w/Leah Nelson and Judge Stephen Wallace

283 | The Restorative Justice Program Trying to Heal the Wounds of a Wrongful Conviction w/Jennifer Thompson and Jamie Lau

282 | How a Former Public Defender Hopes to End Mass Incarceration as a Progressive Prosecutor w/Matthew S

281 | How Philly Public Defenders Uncovered Systemic Abuses in the Philly Police Department w/Paula Sen and Michael Mellon

280 | Why did the Stanislaus County Public Defender Say they Were Ready to Refuse Taking New Cases w/Jennifer Jennison

279 | The Problems with Public Defense in Nueces County Texas w/Jessica Brand and Adrienne Johnson

278 | The Systemic Corruption and Coverups at the Denver Sheriff Department w/Brittany Iriart and Andy McNulty

277 | Venezuelan Gangs Haven't Taken Over Aurora, But What is Happening? w/Chase Woodruff

276 | The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy w/Jessica Pishko

275 | How NACDL is Helping Public and Private Defenders Fight Back Against New Oppressive Policies w/Lisa Wayne

274 | Between 46%-99% of Colorado Public Defenders are Overworked. Why is the State Waiting Two Years for Workload Standards w/James Hardy and Kayleigh TenBarge

273 | How the Junk Science "Excited Delirium" Shields Cops From Accountability w/Rachel Kincaid

272 | The Challenges of Providing Holistic Defense in Rural North Carolina w/Beth Stang

271 | How a Person Can Get Evicted for being the Victim of a Crime too Many Times w/Alex Kornya

270 | What Was Happening in Grants Pass, Oregon Before the Supreme Court OK'd Criminalizing Homelessness w/Jeremiah Hayden

269 | How Oklahoma is Giving a Second Chance to Criminalized Domestic Violence Survivors w/Alexandra Bailey

268 | How the Los Angeles Public Defender Is Bringing Court to their Clients w/Ricardo Garcia and Marcus Huntley

267 | How The Destruction of DNA Evidence Might Keep An Innocent Person Behind Bars w/Erica Nichols Cook

266 | With a Conservative Supreme Court, Do State Courts Offer the Best Path for a Better Criminal Legal System? w/Kathrina (Kasia) Szymborski Wolfkot

265 | The Problems with Public Defense in Guam w/Aditi Goel

264 | How Police Academies Foster a Culture of Police Violence w/Samantha Simon

263 | What Changes are Coming to Fix Maine's Public Defense Crisis? w/Jim Billings

262 | How the Good Faith Exception is Eroding Our Right to Privacy w/Matthew Tokson

261 | The Problems with Public Defense in Florida and Georgia w/Radley Balko

260 | How the Lack of Independence Weakens Federal Public Defense w/Melody Brannon

259 | How the Threat of a Strike got Minnesota's Public Defenders a 25% Raise w/Bob Kolstad and Veronica Surges

258 | What Actually Happened to Minnesota's Legal and Public Defender System After the Murder of George Floyd w/Bill Ward

257 | If Another Person Confesses to a Crime, Why Can't Jurors Hear that Evidence? w/Sharon Turlington

256 | The Fight to Free a Man Convicted Because of One Cop's Perjury w/Jason Gain

255 | The Dangers of a Conviction Based on the Testimony of One Person w/Eric Tindal

254 | The Former Bronx Defender Campaigning to Bring Holistic Defense to Florida's 9th Judicial Circuit w/Lenora Easter

253 | The ACLU Lawsuit Seeking to Radically Change Pennsylvania Public Defense w/Vic Walczak and Veronica Miller

252 | The Rise, Fall, and Disbarment of Florida's Worst Chief Public Defender w/Andrew Pantazi

251 | What Can Save Pennsylvania Public Defense w/Sara Jacobson, Autumn Johnson, Samuel Encarnacion

250 | Why did the Bronx Defender's Union Vote to go on Strike? w/Tyler Johnson, Marlene Marte, Katherine Azcona

249 | Angela Chang and Brooke Burns: How Ohio Public Defenders Push Back Against the Return of the "Super Predator" Myth

248 | Scarlett Lewis: After Her Son was Murdered at Sandy Hook, One Mother's Fight to Reduce Violence by Choosing Love

247 | Chesa Boudin: Lessons Learned from San Francisco's Progressive Prosecution Movement

246 | Eric Whitcher: South Dakota's Small First Step to Statewide Public Defense

245 | Travis Finck: On the Brink of a Crisis, What can Be Done to Save North Dakota Public Defense?

244 | Grant Miller: The Utah Public Defender Campaigning to Bring Big Changes to the Utah State Legislature

243 | Duci Goncalves and Lael Chester: How Massachusetts is Re-imaging how the Criminal Legal System Treats Emerging Adults

242 | Eve Primus: The Hollowing Out of Miranda Rights, and What we Can Do About it

241 | Lucian Dervan: Why do Innocent People Plead Guilty, and What Does it Mean for Our Plea Bargaining System

240 | Adrienne Johnson: Can Gwinnett County Muster the Political Will to Solve their Public Defender Problems

239 | Elisabeth Pollock and Devshi Mehrotra: How the Champaign IL Public Defenders used A.I. to Revive their Office

238 | Patricia Warth: The Budget Moves Threatening Vital New York Public Defender Services

237 | Galit Lipa: The Fight to Get California to View Public Defense as a Public Good and not a Private Luxury

236 | Molly Gilbert and Jason Schwarz: How Washington is Implementing Public Defender Workload Standards

235 | Taylor Herbert: The Many Ways Oregon's Civil Commitment System Fails so Many

234 | Stephen Hanlon: Case Withdrawals, Federal Funding, and the Five Year Plan to Fix Public Defense in Oregon

233 | Lee Wachocki: With Almost 3k People Unrepresented, Why is Oregon adding More Cases to the Public Defender Crisis

232 | Robin Bernstein: The New York Prison that Started our For Profit Prison Industry

231 | Dorsey Nunn: From Banning the Box to Restoring the Right to Vote, One Man's Struggle for the Rights of the Current and Formerly Incarcerated

230: The Voices of Victims and Survivors that Alabama Ignores and Neglects w/Leah Nelson and Callie Greer

229: From a 25% Vacancy Rate to Nearly Zero, How the Montana Public Defender System Came Back from the Brink w/Brett Schandelson

228: Why is this Vitally Important Forensic Science so Rarely Used by Defense Attorneys and the Legal System? w/Dr. Shameka Stewart

227: *AUDIO FIXED* Where is the Ethical Limit for Zealous Criminal Defense Advocacy? w/Martín Sabelli

226: Why Isn't a Cop Who was Indicted for Shooting an Unarmed Person Being Prosecuted? w/Andrew Darling

225: Why Are People Being Found Not Guilty but Still Going to Prison? w/Andrea Jaeger

224: How the DVSJA Gave Two Survivors of Domestic Violence a Second Chance w/Assia Serrano and Trinity Copeland

223: The New York Law Giving a Second Chance to Criminalized Domestic Violence Survivors w/Elizabeth Isaacs

222: The Case for Decriminalizing Domestic Violence w/Leigh Goodmark

221: ALAA's Ceasefire Resolution and the Fallout From it: Part II w/Sophia Gurulé and Pooja Patel

220: ALAA's Ceasefire Resolution and the Fallout From it: Part I w/Michael Letwin

RE-RELEASE: How Moral Injury, Stress, and Trauma Impact Public Defense with Jenny Andrews

219: The Future Looks Bright for New Jersey Public Defense w/Jennifer Sellitti

218: The Cuyahoga County Youth Public Defenders Want More Cases, So Why Aren't They Getting Them? w/Nikki Baszynski

217: Securing Life over Death in the Aurora Theater Shooting Case w/Doug Wilson

216: How a Holistic Defense Team Filled Critical Gaps in D.C.'s Youth Legal System w/Penelope Spain

215: As States Criminalize LGBTQ+ People, How can Lawyers Fight Back? w/Richard Saenz

214: Even if You're Found Not Guilty, Iowa Makes You Pay for the Full Cost of Your Public Defender w/Alex Kornya

213: How Anecdotes and Fear are Driving Maryland to Undo the Juvenile Justice Reform Act w/Natasha Dartigue and Alycia Capozello

212: How Three L.A. Public Defenders Hope to Change the Legal System by Becoming Judges w/Ericka Wiley, George Turner, and Kim Repecka

211: The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing w/Michael Sierra-Arévalo

210: The Copaganda Fueling the Retail Theft Crisis that Never Was w/Brad Haywood

209: Sometimes to Fix a Public Defender System, You have to be Willing to Let it Fail w/James McDermott and Paul Chambers

208: Death by Design: The Death Penalty in Harris County, Texas w/Jessica Brand

207: How Public Defenders Can and Have Beaten Mass Immigration Prosecutions w/Eric Fish

206: What has Actually Happened Since Illinois Abolished Cash Bail w/Sharlyn Grace, Celeste Korando, and Victoria Kerr

205: The Washington Supreme Court Case Giving 500,000+ a New Chance at Freedom w/Grace O'Connor, Nat Jacob, and Kimonti Carter

204: One Journalist's Effort to Uncover the Rot in Kentucky's Legal System w/Taylor Six

203: How the Legal System Abuses and Ignores the Rights of Incarcerated People w/Kaelen Perrochet

202: Using the Carrot and the Stick to Improve Texas Public Defense w/Geoff Burkhart

201: The Fight Against Mass Immigration Prosecutions w/Kimberly Simmons and Jamie Spencer

200: The Problems with Public Defense in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Alaska, and California w/Radley Balko

199: The Incredible Success of Missouri's Holistic Public Defense Program w/Annie Legomsky

198: Ending Mississippi's Criminal Law "Dead Zone" and the Challenge of Securing Public Defender "Wins" w/Andre de Gruy

197: Chipping Away at Virginia's Cruel Legal System, One Policy at a Time w/Rob Poggenklass, Andy Elders, and Ashley Shapiro

196: The Coalition Trying to Abolish the Death Penalty in Nevada w/Nancy Hart and Chris Peterson

195: Securing Life over Death in the Parkland School Shooting Case w/Casey Secor and Kate O'Shea

Thank You for the Past Year and the Year to Come

194: Aurora City Council's Continued Effort to Disband the Public Defender Office w/Elizabeth Cadiz

BONUS: Public Comment on the Privatization of the Aurora Public Defender

193: What Went Right, What Went Wrong, and What is Next for Idaho Public Defense w/Kimberly Simmons and Paul Riggins

192: The Rise of Big Data Policing and the Dangers of the Digital Age of Surveillance w/Andrew Ferguson

191: The Digital General Warrants Encroaching on Your Right to Privacy w/Mike Price

190: The Dangerous Expansion of Facial Recognition Technology w/Clare Garvie

189: Why The Fourth Amendment Needs to Enter the Digital Age w/Jumana Musa

188: If Law School Can't Solve the Shortage of Public Defenders, What Can? w/John Gross

187: The Public Defender Take on the True Crime Podcast w/David Moore

186: Why is our Legal System so Ethically Inconsistent w/Kaelen Perrochet

185: The Compelling Case for Full Time Public Defender Offices in Rural California w/Lael Kayfetz

184: Another Supreme Court Decision Stopping Innocent People from Getting Their Day in Court w/Alison Guernsey and Meredith Esser

183: After Serious Positive Overhauls, What is Next For Delaware Public Defense? w/Kevin O'Connell

182: Looking to Other Countries to Push Back Against the Cruelty of the American Youth Legal System w/Betsy Clarke

181: The Partners for Justice Programs Sparking Change in Public Defense w/Rebecca Solow and Vichal Kumar

180: After 17 Years of Incarceration, One Man's Fight to Radically Reimagine the American Legal System w/Sean Wilson

179: The Cruel Past, Present and Future of Solitary Confinement w/Keramet Reiter

178: How Does the Tennessee Youth Legal System Allow Judges to Make up Crimes and Illegally Jail Kids w/Christina Kleiser and Meribah Knight

177: The Public Defender Policy Team Fighting Back Against San Francisco's Pro-Policing Agenda w/Angela Chan

176: The Corruption and Coverup that Led to the Wrongful Conviction of Tim Wright w/Adam Deutsch

175: How Iowa Makes People Pay for Their Public Defenders w/Darren Page *AUDIO ISSUES CORRECTED*

174: How UnCommon Law Challenges California's Broken System of Parole w/Keith Wattley

173: Defending those that Protested Against Police Brutality and the Killing of Elijah McClain w/Amelia Power

172: Manifesting Justice: How Wrongfully Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights w/Valena Beety

171: The Innocence Project's Future Fight Against Racial Bias and Emerging Junk Sciences w/Christina Swarns

170: The NDS Harlem Union's Fight for a Fair Contract Amidst New York's Housing Crisis w/William Botchway, Naomi Schachter, Jeremy Tinsley

169: How the Ever Expanding Pre-Trial Surveillance Impacts Alaska Public Defense w/Justin Racette

168: Alaska's Brief Moment of Criminal Justice Reform and their Turn to Tough on Crime Policies w/Mike Garvey and Megan Edge

BONUS: A New Database Providing Public Defenders the Latest Social Science Data for Court w/Eve Primus

167: Rebuilding the New York Legal Aid Society's Union Strength w/Jane Fox

166: How the Deck is Heavily Stacked Against Federal Public Defenders w/Colin Prince and Jay McEntire

165: Will a New Data Driven Approach Be the Key to the Future for Montana Public Defense w/Brett Schandelson

164: "Why Would You Even Ask That?" The Absurdity of America's Youth Justice System w/Iliana Pujols

163: Imagining Something Better than Washington's Patchwork Public Defender System w/Larry Jefferson

162: How the Georgia AG is using RICO to Punish Free Speech and Cop City Protesters w/Devin Franklin

161: The NAPD's Plan to Leverage the National Workload Study for Policy Victories w/Cydni Sanchez

160: Unveiling the National Public Defender Workload Standards and the Strategy to Implement Them w/Stephen Hanlon

159: The Communication Breakdown Eroding Trust in the Colorado Public Defender System w/Kiyomi Bolick, Mike Kubicek, and Oliver Rose Katz

158: What is Causing the Indiana Public Defender System to Fail w/Ashley Spolarich, Deana Martin, and Joel Schumm

157: The Racist History of the "Child Welfare" System w/Ieshaah Murphy

156: Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about It w/Jay Aronson

155: How the NY Legal Aid Created a Digital Forensics Unit to Push Back on the Power of Police and Prosecutors w/Jerome Greco

154: Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: Why the Use and Expansion of RICO is Bad w/Martin Sabelli

153: The Coalition Fighting to End the Trial Penalty w/Martin Sabelli and Nathan Pysno

152: The Political and Personal Agenda Behind Governor DeSantis' Removal of State Attorney Monique Worrell w/Andrew Darling

151: Without Trust Between Client and Counsel, Litigation is Limited w/Alexander Kostal

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

BONUS EPISODE: Another Not Guilty Podcast: Murder-ring The Prosecution's Theory w/David Moore and Hillary King

149: It's Time to Abolish the Legalized Theft that is Civil Forfeiture w/Dan Alban

148: Jury Nullification, Conscientious Acquittal, and the Fight To Regain Jury Independence w/Clark Neily

147: Because of its Systemic Indifference to Suffering, Oklahoma Keeps Punishing Domestic Violence Survivors w/Colleen McCarty and Leslie Briggs

146: The Fulton County Jail, Cop City, and the Deafening Silence of the Georgia Public Defense Council w/Devin Franklin

145: What Led to the Unionization of Maryland Public Defense w/Edie Fortuna and Jose Teneza

144: The Campaign to Close Rikers Island w/Richard Willstatter and Stan German

143: The Never Ending Torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri at Guantanamo Bay w/Annie Morgan

142: The Fight for Human Rights at Guantanamo Bay w/John Baker

141: The Horrifying Surveillance Tech Coming to a Neighborhood Near You w/Dhruv Mehrotra

140: How to Use the Appellate System to Push Back on the Family Policing System w/Annick Lenoir-Peek

139: The Race and Class Dynamics Haunting the Connecticut Family Policing System w/Josh Michtom

138: The Driving Force Behind the Growth of Santa Barbara Public Defense w/Deepak Budwani

137: How the Civil Rights Corps is Uncovering and Challenging Prosecutorial Misconduct w/Peter Santina

136: If You Cannot Afford an Attorney, One Will not Be Appointed to You w/ Dr. Andrew Davies, Dr. Victoria Smiegocki, and Shelby Sirivore

135: While She Breathes, She Hopes for a Better Future for South Carolina Public Safety w/Cameron Blazer

134: The Colorado Bond Law Enriching the Bail Bond Industry w/Katie Yens

133: The Tech Solutions that can Propel Public Defense into the Future w/Rocky Ramirez

132: Autonomy to Decide: Managing an Effective Defense with a Challenging Client w/Randy Fiedler and Stacy Newman

131: How to Solve the Public Defender Shortage in Rural America w/Patrick Crowley, Michael Naughton and Jonathan Sacks

130: Poverty, Prison, and a Path to Redemption w/Champ Napier

129: It's Time to Value Paralegals and Social Workers as much as Attorneys w/ Latosha Watts and Taneal Behrens

128: Fostering the Public Voice of the Public Defender w/Kay Levine and Russell Gold

127: Secrets of the Killing State: How the Truth of Lethal Injection Could End the Death Penalty w/Corinna Lain

126: From Portland to Klamath Falls, Public Defense in Oregon is on Life Support w/Lee Wachocki and Eve Costello

125: You Might Go to Prison Even Though You're Innocent w/Justin Brooks

124: The Many Ways Alabama Denies People a Second Chance After Leaving Prison w/Stacey Fuller and Kathleen Henderson

123: How a Vicious Union Busting Campaign Could Cripple Louisville Public Defense w/Cat Vining and Morgan King

122: How the Municipal Public Defenders of Aurora, Colorado Fight Back Against Incompetence, Corruption, and Malpractice

121: 50 Shades of Grey Goes to Court: How to Present BDSM and Non-Monogamy in Court w/Jill Weinberg

120: The Bronx Defenders' Transformation from Scabs to Unionization w/Babatunde Aremu

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

118: When Student Loan Payments Get Turned Back on, What Will Happen to Public Defense? w/Jane Fox and Kyle Morris

117: How the King County Public Defender Union is Becoming a Player in Washington Politics w/Elbert Aull

116: The Promise and Problems of Progressive Prosecution w/Keisha Hudson, Mano Raju and Ricardo Garcia

115: Is There a Better Way to Provide Public Defense w/James McDermott and Paul Chambers

114: How A Coalition of Prosecutors, City Attorneys, and Public Defenders Produces Better Working Conditions w/Alexandra Pray

113: A Broken Legal System, A Lack of Health Care, and How the US Keeps Puerto Rico Under its Thumb w/Diego Alcala

112: How Mitigation Confronts the Biases of Jurors, Judges, Prosecutors, and Public Defenders w/Victoria Rusk

111: A New Path for Public Safety in San Francisco w/Mano Raju

110: The Paper Prisons that Keep Millions of Americans From a Second Chance w/Colleen Chien and Alyssa Aguilar

109: What are a Lawyer's Ethical Obligations to Society? w/David Siegel

108: One Investigators Efforts to Revitalize Public Defense in Barron County, Wisconsin w/Felicia Tempel

107: Non-Capital Mitigation and the Quest to Inject Empathy into the Law w/Lindsay Bendell

106: How Unionization Enables Public Defenders to Get Victories in and Out of Court w/Garret Miller and Brooke Longuevan

105: Why it is so Difficult to Get the Innocent out of Prison w/Daniel Medwed

104: Unlocking the Potential of Public Defense in LA County w/Ricardo Garcia

103: How Public Defense is Failing in the West w/Emily Hamer

102: How the Delaware Law Enforcement Bill of Rights Keeps Cop Misconduct Hidden w/Kevin O'Connell, Misty Seemans, and Elliot Margules

101: Reflecting on Gideon v Wainwright, the Past, Present and Future of Public Defense w/Justine Olderman and Wes Caines

100: Do Sex Offender Registries Make Us Safer? w/David Garlock

99: There is no Public Defense Without Investigators w/Jon Lyon

98: Making the Case for the Abolition of Court Fees w/Priya Sarathy Jones

97: A Reason to Hope for Connecticut Public Defense w/TaShun Bowden-Lewis

96: How to Include the Formerly Incarcerated in Public Defense w/Anthony Graves

95: Why it's Time to Abolish Felony Murder Laws w/Nazgol Ghandnoosh

94: Where Will Maryland Public Defense Go With A New Chief Public Defender w/Natasha Dartigue

93: Why it is Time to Move Away from Assigned and Contract Public Defense Models w/Eve Primus

92: The Important Role Public Defense Played in New Jersey Bail Reform w/Joseph Krakora

91: If Iowa Public Defense is About to Collapse, What is Happening in Juvenile and Immigration Defense w/Rachel Antonuccio and Julia Zalenski

90: In Order to Review Hours of Video Evidence, Public Defenders Need New Tech w/Devshi Mehrotra

89: How to Pass on the Lessons from a 20+ Year Public Defender Career w/Andre Vitale

88: The Most Important Public Defense Victories Don't Happen in the Court Room w/Sam Allison Natale

87: How to Make the Case for Public Defense in a Conservative State w/Diane Lozano

86: The Resurrection of New York Public Defense w/Patricia Warth

85: The Challenges Public Defense Faces in Rural Georgia w/Michael Smith

84: How Anne Arundel County, MD Prosecutors Over Incarcerate the Community w/Felipe Gonzalez

83: The Everyday Citizens Uncovering Oklahoma Police and Prosecutor Misconduct

82: The Tech NonProfit Accelerating People Out of the U.S. Justice System w/Serena Chang

81: How to Craft Ethical Tech Solutions to the Many Issues with the Legal System w/Jason Tashea

80: Staff Assaults, A Decade in Solitary, and the Many Horrors of Massachusetts' Prisons w/Elizabeth Matos

79: What Could Yolo County Public Defenders Do if They Weren't Funded $16 Million Less than the Prosecutors? w/Tracie Olson

78: What's Plaguing Public Defense in Oakland County Michigan and New Hampshire? w/David Carroll

77: The Fallout of the Dobbs Decision on Louisiana Reproductive Healthcare w/Gwyneth O'Neill, Ellie Schilling and Michelle Erenberg

76: Trying to Keep Public Defense in North Dakota from Collapsing w/Travis Finck

75: Opioids, Addiction, and the Alabama Despair Machine w/Leah Nelson and Stacey Fuller

74: How Public Defenders can Take Back the Public Safety Narrative w/Emily-Galvin Almanza and Danielle Hopkins

73: How a Sixth Amendment Center Report Sparked Change in Utah Public Defense w/Richard Mauro

72: Why it is Time to End Life Sentences w/Alexandra Bailey and Nazgol Ghandnoosh

71: Every Public Defender Office Needs an Immigration Attorney w/Raha Jorjani

70: Challenging America's Punishment Bureaucracy w/Alec Karakatsanis

69: The Need for Holistic Family Representation w/Center for Family Representation New York

68: Why do we Punish People? w/Kaelen Perrochet

67: Managed Assigned Counsel: A Savvy Solution or a Simple Stop Gap? w/Jim Bethke

66: Is Incrementalism Enough to Fix the Criminal Legal System w/Jeff Blackburn

65: What Happened to the Prisoners Stuck in Jail During Hurricane Ian? w/Kathy Smith

64: How Public Defense can Win the Media Battle w/Maggie Shepard

63: Why do We Punish Domestic Violence Survivors? w/Alexandra Bailey

62: Why Does the Aurora City Council Want to Dismantle the Public Defender Office w/Doug Wilson

61: Uncovering the Misconduct of Police, Prosecutors, and Judges w/Johann Drolshagen

60: How Kansas Public Defense Got Headed in the Right Direction w/Heather Cessna

59: The Lawsuit Pushing to Change the Wisconsin Public Defense w/John Birdsall and Hank Schultz

58: Are Public Defense Unions the Key to Systemic Reform? w/Sam Allison-Natale and Bob Kolstad

57: Why More People and Public Defenders Need to Think and Advocate Systemically w/Olayemi Olurin

56: Could Veteran Treatment Courts be the Key to Unlocking Criminal Justice Reforms? with David Pelletier

55: Capital Representation and the Office of the Defender General w/Andrea Lyon

Andrea Lyon on the Need for the Defender General

54: The Public Defense Union Pushing to Change Colorado Public Defense with The Defender's Union of Colorado

53: What is Causing the Crisis in Oregon Public Defense w/Chris O'Connor

52: The Court Fines and Fees that Fund Alabama with Adam Danneman and Leah Nelson

51: The Texas Capital Punishment System is Designed to Kill w/Ray Keith

50: The Fees Making People Pay for Their "Free" Attorney w/Marea Beeman

49: How did Arizona Become so Pro-Mass Incarceration and What Can be Done About it? w/Nate Wade and Katie Gipson-McLean

48: The Recent Victories Igniting New Hope for Missouri Public Defense w/Mary Fox

47: In Small-Town Georgia, A Broken Taillight Can Lead to Spiraling Debt w/Nick Barber

46: Fighting Gun Violence Without Using Mass Incarceration in Cook County, IL w/Sharone Mitchell

45: Lawyers, Social Workers, Investigators, and the Whole Team that Makes the NAPD w/Lori James-Townes

44: Community Outreach and Staffing Shortages in Miami Public Defense w/Carlos Martinez

43: The Problem with Plea Deals with Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick

42: The Essential Role of Social Work and Mitigation Specialists in Public Defense with Justin Heim

41: Turning Public Defender Priorities into Public Policy Victories with Brad Haywood and Bryan Kennedy

40: How Moral Injury, Stress, and Trauma Impact Public Defense with Jenny Andrews

39: The Power of Public Advocacy in Alameda County Public Defense with Brendon Woods

38: Can the Michigan Model Pave the Way for Public Defense? with Kristen Staley

37: How to Train the Next Generation of Public Defense Leaders with Jeff Sherr and Heather Hall

36: Kentucky PD and The National Association of Public Defense with Ernie Lewis

35: Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Student Debt with Jane Fox and Kyle Morris

34: The History of Public Defense with Sara Mayuex

33: How Could Low Attorney Pay Cripple Massachusetts Public Defense w/Anthony Benedetti

32: Why Nevada Public Defense Failed and the Plan to Build it Back w/Franny Forsman

31: The Wrongful Conviction of Cyrus Wilson with Cyrus Wilson and Dawn Deaner

30: How Tennessee Fails to Protect Children Accused of Crimes w/Mark Stephens

29: The Role a Judge can Play in Reforming Public Defense w/Tom Boyd

28: Public Defense Commissions with David Kaplan and Sara Hildebrand

27: Why is the Actual Innocence of a Person not Enough to Stop his Execution? with Sylvia Lett and Andrew Sowards

26: Junk Science and the Makings of a Wrongful Conviction with Chris Fabricant

25: The Need for Mercy in the Kentucky Legal System w/Ed Monahan

24: How the Media Poisons Criminal Justice Discourse with Scott Hechinger

23: Gideon's Promise and Public Defense Culture with Jon Rapping

22: How Automation Can Help Public Defense with Rocky Ramirez and Paul Chambers

21: Public Defense Appellate Law and PD Commissions with Frances Brown

20: Representing Mothers in Tulsa, Oklahoma with Aisha McWeay

19: How Pennsylvania's Failure to Fund Public Defense Hurts Everyone w/Keisha Hudson

18: Data-Driven Public Defense Policy with Stephen Hanlon

17: Public Defenseless 202

16: Can Assigned Counsel Public Defense System Work? w/Tim Rensch & Bob Pesall

15: Was a Lawsuit Enough to Fix Missouri Public Defense? w/Anthony Rothert

14: West Virginia Public Defense with Dana Eddy & Stacey Fragile

13: How Florida Disregards the Right to Counsel w/Rex Dimmig

12: Why Are Virginia Public Defenders Only Paid to Work on a Case for Two Hours? w/Amari Harris

11: Is the Cannabis Industry Falling Short in its Fight? with Steve DeAngelo

10: How did Colorado Build one of the Best Public Defense Systems? w/Doug Wilson

09: What Can Cannabis Reform Teach us About Criminal Justice Reform with Christian Sederberg

08: Why Did Indiana's Public Defense System Fail? w/Larry Landis

07: The Power of Creating an Independent Public Defense System w/Ben Baur

06: How the Louisiana Public Defenders are Paid to Lose w/Derwyn Bunton & Trisha Ward

05: What's Causing the Crisis in Maine's Public Defense System w/Justin Andrus

04: Why is Public Defense Failing Nationwide? with David Carroll

03: Texas Public Defense with James McDermott and Scott Ehlers

02: Why is it Common for People to be Held for a Year With No Attorney in Mississippi? w/Andre De Gruy

01: Public Defense 101

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