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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 393 | Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement w/Christopher Blackwell 09/11/2025
info_outline 392 | Can Public Defenders Become a Greater Check on the Three Branches of Government? w/Chesa Boudin and Eric Fish 09/09/2025
info_outline 391 | Debating The Problems and Promises of the Public Defender National Workload Study Part 2 w/Bob Boruchowitz 09/02/2025
info_outline 390 | Debating the Problems and Promises of the Public Defender National Workload Study Part 1 w/John Gross 09/02/2025
info_outline 389 | How Cook County Public Defenders are Preparing for Trump Deploying the National Guard to Chicago w/Sharone Mitchell Jr. and Sharlyn Grace 08/29/2025
info_outline 388 | How Public Defenders Can Make it Easier to Win More Courtroom Arguments w/Eve Primus 08/28/2025
info_outline 387 | The Junk "Science" Cops Use to Stop, Frisk, and Search People w/Amanda Savage 08/26/2025
info_outline 386 | Why Have the Private Defense Lawyers who Take 40% of Federal Public Defense Cases Stopped Getting Paid? w/Renae Alt-Summers and Mekka Jeffers-Nelson 08/21/2025
info_outline 385 | How a Public Defender Fought for a Better Legal System in the Utah State Legislature w/Grant Miller 08/19/2025
info_outline 384 | How Texas is Trying to Improve Access to Family Defense Attorneys w/Crystal Leff-Piñon 08/14/2025
info_outline 383 | How Can Texas Solve its Shortage of Rural Public Defender Crisis? w/Scott Ehlers 08/12/2025
info_outline 382 | What Stopped North Dakota Public Defenders from Refusing New Cases? w/Travis Fink 08/07/2025
info_outline 381 | With a Shortage of Lawyers and Too Many Cases, Will New Mexico Public Defenders Need to Stop Taking New Cases? w/Ben Baur 08/05/2025
info_outline 380 | How Washington is Helping People Who Have been Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity w/Tim Ray Johnson, Dennis Calhoun, and Amanda Ulrich 07/31/2025
info_outline 379 | How Washington is Trying to Recruit and Keep Lawyers in Rural Parts of the State w/ Nat Jacob, Elizabeth Mustin, Rachel Cortez 07/29/2025
info_outline 378 | Why is Oklahoma Going to Execute a Man who Didn't Kill Anyone? w/Amanda Bass Castro Alves 07/24/2025
info_outline 377 | How Was a Man Convicted of Murder When He Wasn't in the State When the Crime Occurred? w/Erica Nichols Cook 07/22/2025
info_outline 376 | How a Law School Clinic is Trying to Prevent Gun Violence Through Litigation w/Megan Walsh and Anthony Benz 07/17/2025
info_outline 375 | The Law Clinic Helping Public Defenders Fight Back Against New Police Technology w/Megan Graham 07/15/2025
info_outline 374 | How were Incarcerated People Impacted by the NY Correctional Officers' Illegal Wild Cat Strike? w/Emily Napier Singletary and Derek Singletary 07/10/2025
info_outline 373 | How a Public Defender Investigator Unsolved a Murder w/Anat Rubin 07/09/2025
info_outline 372 | The Community Organizers Helping Detroit Reach its Lowest Crime Rate in 60 Years w/Dujuan "Zoe" Kennedy 07/08/2025
info_outline 371 | The Cruelty Kids Face at the Intersection of Criminal and Immigration Law w/Claire Valentin and Hayley Upshaw 07/03/2025
info_outline 370 | How Public Defenders Can Make a Difference in Immigration Defense w/Ali Saidi 07/02/2025
info_outline 369 | Why California Has and Needs its Immigration Sanctuary Laws w/Angela Chan 07/01/2025
info_outline 368 | The Fight to Abolish the Death Penalty in Delaware w/Kevin O'Connell 06/26/2025
info_outline 367 | After a Rocky Start, What Does the Future Hold for Idaho's New State Public Defender System w/Eric Fredericksen 06/24/2025
info_outline 366 | How Public Defenders Can Create Equitable Public Safety Policies w/Hans Menos and Rob Kenter 06/19/2025
info_outline 365 | How San Francisco Public Defenders Used the Racial Justice Act to Combat Implicit Racial Bias in the Legal System w/Sujung Kim and Lilah Wolf 06/17/2025
info_outline 364 | How Cops Mess Up the Investigation Child Sex Assault Cases w/Christina Sally and Chris Bertram 06/12/2025
 
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