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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 347 | How Participatory Defense has and can help Minnesota Public Defenders w/Damon Drake 04/17/2025
info_outline 346 | The Revival of Public Defense in Santa Cruz County California w/Heather Rogers and Caitlin Becker 04/15/2025
info_outline 345 | Will Governor Jeff Landry's Push to Execute More People get an Innocent Man Killed? w/Piper French 04/10/2025
info_outline 344 | When Public Defenders Support Community Organizing, Community will Organize to Support Public Defense w/Heather Lewis 04/08/2025
info_outline 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 04/03/2025
info_outline 342 | What was Revealed about the Death Penalty When a Man on Death Row Volunteered to be Executed? w/Gianna Toboni 04/01/2025
info_outline 341 | Why did a Judge Stop a Defense Lawyer from Showing the Jury the Complaining Witness's Habit of Fabricating Evidence w/Blake Weiner 03/27/2025
info_outline 340 | The Amendment to Louisiana's Constitution that is Trying to Make it Easier to Send Kids to Angola Prison w/Kristen Rome 03/25/2025
info_outline 339 | Did One Woman Coerce her Foster Kids into Wrongfully Accusing their Family of Sexual Abuse? w/Amy Parker 03/20/2025
info_outline 338 | How Trump is Using the Alien Enemies Act to Destroy Due Process Protections w/Nayna Gupta 03/18/2025
info_outline 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 03/13/2025
info_outline 336 | How the San Mateo Private Defender Program is Trying to Earn Back the Community's Trust w/Lisa Maguire and Harpreet Samra 03/11/2025
info_outline 335 | How Sec Def Austin Interfered with the 9/11 and U.S.S. Cole Case Plea Deals w/Allison Miller and Katie Carmon 03/06/2025
info_outline 334 | Was a Former Colorado Public Defender Fired for Raising Concerns over his Workload? w/Travis Weiner 03/04/2025
info_outline 333 | How The American Eugenics Movement Helped Create Habitual Offender Laws w/Daniel Loehr 02/27/2025
info_outline 332 | The Coalition Fighting to Save New York's Discovery Laws w/Amanda Jack and Kalle Condliffe 02/25/2025
info_outline 331 | How the Far West Texas Public Defenders Uncovered a Pattern of Discovery Violations in El Paso w/James McDermott and Paul Chambers 02/20/2025
info_outline 330 | The Fight to Reform Oklahoma's Failure to Protect Laws w/Alexandra Bailey and Cindy Nguyen 02/19/2025
info_outline 329 | Prosecutorial Reform and the Myth of Individualized Enforcement w/Justin Murray 02/18/2025
info_outline 328 | How the Laken Riley Act Could Get Innocent People Sent to Guantanamo Bay w/Ann Block and Nithya Nathan-Pineau 02/13/2025
info_outline 327 | Should we Have Universal Public Defense w/Alexis Hoag-Fordjour 02/11/2025
info_outline 326 | How Cuyahoga County Jail Keeps Prisoners from their Family and Records their Conversations w/Nikki Baszynski 02/06/2025
info_outline 325 | Is Kansas Public Defense on the Verge of a Crisis? w/Heather Cessna 02/04/2025
info_outline 324 | The Fight to End Youth Shackling and Limit Mass Surveillance in Virginia w/Rob Poggenklass and Bryan Kennedy 01/30/2025
info_outline 323 | How One Inconsistent Eye Witness Led to the Wrongful Conviction of Ivery Dorsey w/Kerrie Liang 01/28/2025
info_outline 322 | The Impact of and the Resistance to Mass Deportation Policies w/Hans Meyer and Holly Lucas 01/23/2025
info_outline 321 | How Virginia Prison Officials Lied About Red Onion Prisoner Lighting Themselves on Fire w/Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 01/22/2025
info_outline 320 | Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons w/Brittany Friedman 01/21/2025
info_outline 319 | How a Petty Theft Could get you 180 Days in Jail in Rifle Municipal Court w/Scott Troxell 01/16/2025
info_outline 318 | How to Fight and Abolish the Death Penalty Outside of the Courtroom w/Abraham Bonowitz 01/15/2025
 
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