Heads up Baltimore: Board of Estimates just unanimously approved $920K on new stingray tracking tech. BPD pointed to a “tightly bound unit” w/ a “culture” of "utmost trustworthiness" in response to questions from council pres Nick Mosby about accountability and past misuse... 👀

I'm not crying, we're all crying 🐐

Adnan Syed is going to walk free today. I'm headed outside for press conferences.

In her convo with Hadley Green, Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! gives a 101 on the challenges of coming forward as a survivor of gender-based violence in the criminal legal system. Check out her breakdown of how trauma affects memory from ~2:27-3:18: washingtonpost.com/video/national…

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Who won a motion to suppress, a motion for judgment of acquittal, & beat the State's plea offer at their *1st* trial? My incredible Maryland Carey Law Criminal Defense Clinic students David Karpay David & Skylar Johnson Skylar J. We celebrate fights not wins, but today we won! 🎉

Keith Davis Jr. now has an entry in Natl. Registry of Exonerations!

What a treat to join the amazing @DanaLGold & Chelsea Higgs Wise & Admissible: Shreds of Evidence's fab host Tessa Kramer to chat whistleblowing, democracy, carceral injustice & yes, forensics. If you aren't listening, get on it! Last episode (feat. me!) drops 4/25. Thank you VPM & @ICAVCU!

Last class of scientific evidence seminar. Polled students on how they'd set admissibility standard. 0 = nothing comes in; 10 = everything comes in; 5 = current standard (Daubert/Frye). 1-4 = make standard stricter; 6-9 = make it more lenient. The fascinating results: #evidence

In the Baltimore Sun, I write about one of the Biden administration's newest policies targeting asylum-seeking families. We must do more to help these families navigate our immigration system and rebuild their lives in this country. baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/…

Join @JuliaSimonKerr @erin_r_collins bennett capers Jocelyn Simonson Andrea L. Dennis Jasmine Gonzales Rose Maneka Sinha Ed Cheng Lauryn Gouldin Jasmine E Harris nina chernoff and me (and many others) at UConn School of Law for an "Evidence Through a Critical Lens" symposium 1/26/24. tinyurl.com/2atskm6z

Finally holding my copy of Dismantling Mass Incarceration, and it's hefty in all the good ways. Congrats to Premal Dharia James Forman, Jr. & Maria Hawilo for collecting so many smart ideas in one place, incl. from @tsp5280 Emily Bazelon Jessica Pishko John Pfaff, and now @johnpfaff.bsky.social DA Larry Krasner (and me).