Driving on a suspended license is an example of the criminalization of poverty.

We should eliminate the inventory exception to the warrant requirement under the Pennsylvania Constitution, Justice Wecht argues: It's premised on a fiction. pacourts.us/assets/opinion… #N

BREAKING: Young Thug’s lawyer, Brian Steel, was ordered into custody after he was held in contempt for not disclosing his source. Steel's arrest followed the lawyer refusing to disclose the source of a private conversation between the judge, the DA, and a star witness. “You got

I haven’t been following this case day-by-day, but one gets the sense that the wheels have been slowly coming off. Until today, when they came completely and spectacularly off. I’ve never seen anything like this in 25+ years of practicing law. It’s stunning. Fulton County, man.

On dealing with prosecutors: "Make 'em work. There's a lot of jobs that don't require working on the weekend. Putting a human being in a cage isn't one of them. Make 'em work." -Jeremy Rosenthal

In a new bail reform study, Brennan Center looked at 22 cities that did some form of bail reform with 11 that didn't and found "no statistically significant difference in crime rates between cities that reformed their bail policies and those that did not" prospect.org/justice/2024-0…

Today, I spoke with Rachel Kincaid to discuss her recent law review article on the junk science known as "Excited Delirium". On this episode you will hear the racist history of the "science" and how it shields from police for their unlawful uses of force.

🚨 New, from me: The medical examiner who helped persuade a jury in 2004 that Russell Maze killed his baby son has recanted his testimony. Now both the DA’s office and the original M.E. agree that the crime for which Maze was convicted never occurred. 1/x propublica.org/article/russel…

my fall aesthetic is jimmy carter building affordable housing

oh so you want to abolish the police, smart guy? who you gonna call next time you need four assholes with pensions and overtime to shoot up a subway car in pursuit of a $2.90 fare jumper then, eh? think about that, buddy

Shotspotter doesn't work. It fails to make our communities safer, at the expense of increased surveillance & policing of Black and Latine neighborhoods and $54M dollars. We spoke with Hell Gate *subscribe today!* about our new report analyzing 9 years of NYPD data: hellgatenyc.com/nypd-shotspott…

This seems … bad. If it’s okay to violate someone’s right to counsel so long as you think the right guy won, there is no right to counsel.

From Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) on instagram: “Help support our incarcerated fire crews, including the 30 young men from Pine Grove currently out fighting the LA fires. Every dollar you donate will go directly to their pockets.” Donate here: antirecidivism.org/donate/

Over at SCOTUS, Justices Sotomayor and Gorsuch encourage defense counsel to keep pushing the originalist argument that misdemeanor arrests require a warrant if the crime is not committed in an officer's presence. supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf… #N

Yeah a murder trial without any defense investigation or strategy is not actually a trial??

The first sign below is the one people in line could see at DCA this morning: Your photo is "deleted" after your identity is verified. But TSA posted a second sign—where no one could see it—admitting to the public what I've been saying all along: Your photo will be "saved" for

Happy Gideon Day! Thank you to all of the public defenders in the trenches who fight every day to bend the arc of the law a little more toward justice.

Every public defender is currently typing out an “I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO” text to their boomer parents

Lawsuit: Twin Cities pediatrician altered records in shaken baby murder case as part of conspiracy startribune.com/shaken-baby-sy…