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Public Defenseless

Anyone paying attention can tell you that our criminal legal system is perpetuating cruelty and harm, but the complexity of the legal world overwhelms most people simply trying to get through another day. Public Defenseless explores the rot in the justice system and what we can do about it. Join host, Hunter Parnell, as he interviews top defense attorneys and criminal justice stakeholders from across the country as they pull apart the convoluted web of our criminal justice system. Like so many of you, Hunter is not an attorney, simply tired of a news cycle and talking heads that offer no real solutions to the ever-growing list of problems we face. Hunter hopes that with this information, you will share his belief that ordinary people still can make a difference.

info_outline 2025 Wrap Up 12/24/2025
info_outline 429 | How Technology Can Improve Public Defense in and out of the Courtroom w/Mohammed Al Rawi and Ryan Wolfe 12/23/2025
info_outline 428 | How Will New Leadership Handle Missouri Public Defender's Low Pay and the State's Mental Health Resource Crisis w/Matthew Crowell 12/18/2025
info_outline 427 | What Happened to Public Defense in Stanislaus County After They Started Talking About Not Taking New Cases? w/Jennifer Jennison 12/16/2025
info_outline 426 | The Conservative Arkansas County Trying to Stop a Prison Being Built Next Door w/Lauren Gill 12/11/2025
info_outline *AUDIO FIXED* 425 | How Ramsey County Prosecutors and Public Defenders are Collaborating to Improve the Legal System w/John Choi and Greg Egan 12/09/2025
info_outline 424 | If You Cannot Afford an Attorney, None Will Be Appointed to You w/Andrew Davies and Shelby Sirivore 12/04/2025
info_outline 423 | How the Los Angeles Public Defender is Revolutionizing the Representation of People with Neurocognitive Disorders w/Noah Cox 12/02/2025
info_outline 422 | What Does it Take to Undo California's Legacy of Mass Incarceration? w/Danielle Harris 11/26/2025
info_outline 421 | How the Law Makes it So Easy for Prosecutors to Withhold Evidence w/Justin Murray 11/25/2025
info_outline 420 | Did the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Defender Services Flagrantly try to Union Bust? w/Heather Stoloff and Andie Markowitz 11/20/2025
info_outline 419 | Why did The CJA Panel in New Mexico Stop Accepting New Cases? w/Ryan Villa 11/19/2025
info_outline 418 | The Organization Trying to Help More than 195,000 Afghan Allies Find Safety w/Shawn VanDiver 11/18/2025
info_outline 417 | How a Jailhouse Lawyer Challenged Louisiana's Mass Incarceration from Inside Angola Prison w/Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull 11/13/2025
info_outline 416 | How Louisiana Built the Project of Mass Incarceration w/Nick Weldon and Eric Seiferth 11/11/2025
info_outline 415 | How the Detroit Justice Center is Helping People Eliminate Their Court Fines and Fees w/Nancy A. Parker and Rubina Mustafa 11/06/2025
info_outline 414 | How California Built a Database to Track Police Misconduct w/Katey Rusch 11/05/2025
info_outline 413 | How New Mexico Joined in On the Fight to End Harmful Court Fines and Fees w/Joanna Weiss 11/04/2025
info_outline 412 | How Pre-Trial Services Can Reduce Incarceration w/David Bennett 10/30/2025
info_outline 411 | How Private Criminal Defense Lawyers Are Trying to Solve Colorado's Rural Attorney Shortage Crisis w/Kristin Ladd, Mesa Anderson, and Blue Daniels 10/29/2025
info_outline 410 | How to Meet the Needs of Incarcerated Women w/Emily Salisbury 10/28/2025
info_outline 409 | How Will Maryland Public Defense Handle It's Workload Crisis and a Slate of New Criminal Law Policies w/Natasha Dartigue 10/23/2025
info_outline 408 | How Georgia's New "Tough on Crime" Laws Could Make Communities Even Less Safe w/Blake Feldman 10/21/2025
info_outline 407 | How Hennepin County has Expanded the Right to Counsel to Civil Legal Issues w/ Jeanette Boerner, Jessica Ryan and Terrance Hendricks 10/16/2025
info_outline 406 | How the Cook County Prosecutor Has Made it Harder for the Wrongfully Convicted to Find Justice w/Dan Hinkel 10/15/2025
info_outline 405 | How The Miami Public Defenders Got Their Workloads Under Control w/Carlos Martinez 10/14/2025
info_outline 404 | How Enforcing Workload Standards Changed the Culture and the Future of Montana Public Defense 10/10/2025
info_outline 403 | Is this the Start of Public Defense Expanding in Mississippi? w/Andre de Gruy 10/09/2025
info_outline 402 | Defense Lawyering in the Progressive Prosecution Era w/Jenny Roberts 10/07/2025
info_outline 401 | Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back w/Joshua Clark Davis 10/02/2025
 
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