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Today, I spoke with Brooklyn Law School Professor Alice Ristroph about the way we teach criminal law in law school. We discussed how the standard curriculum came to be, how it could be different, and why it's so important for law schools to critically evaluate how the course is taught.

Today, I spoke w/Professor Andrew Crespo to continue this week's discussion about better ways to teach criminal law. Along w/his co-author, John Rappaport, Crespo hopes his new crim law text book can help students better understand how our criminal law fueled mass incarceration

Judges should not get any raise at all until indigent defense is fully and sustainably funded

After 10 yrs of monitoring, control over New York city jails is finally being stripped from the city amidst worsening conditions. What will this mean for the long and winding effort to end solitary confinement at Rikers Island? boltsmag.org/new-york-riker…

I published a piece looking at the data last week. Some examples: As of early May, murders were down 32% in Baltimore, 35% in St. Louis, 37% in Cleveland, 63% in Denver, 31% in New Orleans, 27% in New York, and 24% in Chicago. Incredible: reason.com/2025/05/27/cou…

Defense Lawyers Face Months Without Pay as Federal Funds Dry Up Suzanne Monyak Bloomberg Law buff.ly/dIabefJ

Today, I was joined once again by the Chief Public Defender in Charleston, South Carolina's 9th Circuit, Cameron Blazer. We discussed how new bail laws and immigration enforcement are straining an office already struggling under excessive workloads.

⁦Briggs Hopson⁩ ⁦Sen. Brice Wiggins⁩ ⁦Rep. Jansen Owen⁩ ⁦Jason White⁩ we should look at Illinois as a path forward on indigent defense in Mississippi. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pub…

The San Francisco Public Defender is alleging a pattern and practice of discovery violations by SF DAs In a six-month period the PD's misdemeanor unit says it tracked 50 incidents of the DA's office failing to turn over evidence on time. missionlocal.org/2025/05/sf-da-…

Investigators are essessentialtopublicdefense. I am very proud of the work our team does. Since 2023, we’ve increased our ratio to 1 investigator for every 8 public defenders. But, expansion without adequate funding isn’t sustainable. calmatters.org/investigation/…

Today, I spoke w/Elisabeth Pollock and Stephanie Kollmann about remarkable changes that may soon becoming to Public Defense in Illinois. Sitting on the Governor's desk is the Fair Act. This act is the first step towards taking Illinois becoming a statewide Public Defendee system.

These are very disturbing reports from LA's Roybal Federal Building. Law-abiding asylum seekers — many with kids — are being detained after showing up for routine ICE check-ins. No food. No water. Locked in holding rooms for over 12 to 24 hours. 🧵1/8

Law faculty who teach criminal law & related stuff (esp newbies): check out our new online database of teaching materials so you can access practice problems, lecture notes, syllabi and more, to get some fresh ideas for your courses. And share your own materials to help others...

Washington’s Supreme Court slashes public defender caseload limits washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/06/09/was…

Thank you Amanda Hernández for really SEEING this work! stateline.org/2025/06/10/how…

Today, I spoke once again w/Ricardo D. García, The Chief Public Defender LA County Public Defender's Office. This time, we discussed how the return of the death penalty and Prop 36 are impacting Public Defense and what happened to incarcerated people during the LA County Wildfires.

Mississippi Makes Move Toward State-Funded Public Defenders | The Marshall Project themarshallproject.org/2025/06/12/mis…

New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of ‘facial surveillance’: The city would become first in the U.S. to formally allow facial recognition as a tool for surveilling residents in real time. Doug MacMillan The Washington Post buff.ly/CqovoF9

Today, I spoke w/Christina Sally and Chris Bertram. Unlike my usual guests, they are both retired cops. Now they are defense experts, in part, because they believe, , police are messing up child sex abuse investigations. We discussed why they believe that keeps happening.