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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 498 | How the Allegheny County Public Defender is Getting their Clients Out of Custody and into Care w/Alena Chulick 07/16/2026
info_outline 497 | How Did the Tribal Defenders Office of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Build a Model Holistic Defender Service w/Ann Miller, Susette Billedeaux, and Josh Cahoon 07/14/2026
info_outline 496 | Why the Lawyers Handling 80% of Massachusetts's Public Defender Cases Stopped Taking New Cases Part 2 w/Shira Diner 07/09/2026
info_outline 495 | Will a Severe Budget Deficit in Santa Clara County Require the Public Defender to Stop Taking New Cases? w/Damon Silver 07/07/2026
info_outline 494 | Why did the Spokane County Public Defenders Sue the County Over New Workload Requirements? w/Colin Charbonneau and Victoria Blumhorst 07/02/2026
info_outline 493 | Two Oregon Public Defenders Sued the Oregon Public Defense Commission and Won. Now What? w/Shannon Wilson and Stacey Lowe 06/30/2026
info_outline 492 | How Will Pennsylvania Respond to its Supreme Court Striking Down Mandatory LWOP for Felony Murder Convictions? w/Nia Holston and Sean Damon 06/25/2026
info_outline 491 | The Hidden Punishments in Pre-Trial Detention That Disproportionately Impact LGBTQ People w/Deborah Lolai 06/24/2026
info_outline 490 | How the Civil Rights Corps Secured a Massive Victory in the Fight Against Cash Bail w/Salil Dudani and Carson White 06/23/2026
info_outline 489 | Why did a 35 Year Career Prosecutor Walk Away from the DOJ Under the Second Trump Administration? w/John Haried 06/18/2026
info_outline 488 | How Public Defenders Can Fight for Our Clients and for Funding by Engaging with the Media w/Maggie Shepard and Bob McGovern 06/16/2026
info_outline 487 | Iowa Public Defender Secured a Major Victory for Workload Controls, but will New Tough on Crime Policies Send the System into a Crisis? w/Eric Tindal 06/11/2026
info_outline 486 | How to Ensure Local Governments Cannot Cooperate with Federal Immigration Enforcement w/Alex Kornya 06/09/2026
info_outline 485 | Will Utah Force Homeless People to Move to a Camp Outside of Salt Lake City? w/Nate Crippes 06/04/2026
info_outline 484 | How the Hamilton County, Ohio Public Defenders are Holding Police and Prosecutors Accountable w/Angela Chang and Sean Vicente 06/02/2026
info_outline 483 | How Progressive Politics can Abolish ICE and Build a More Humane Immigration System w/Senator Julie Gonzales 05/29/2026
info_outline 482 | How the Colorado State Public Defender's Policy on Workloads Might Violate a Lawyer's Ethical Obligations w/Jim Castle 05/28/2026
info_outline 481 | Was a Former Colorado Public Defender Fired for Raising Concerns over his Workload? Part 2 w/Travis Weiner 05/27/2026
info_outline 480 | Did the Colorado Public Defender Retaliate Against Me for My Speech on the Podcast? 05/26/2026
info_outline 479 | What Data Tells Us About the Public Defender Well Being Crisis Part 2 w/Jenny Andrews, Matthew Thiese, and Sara McCarthy 05/21/2026
info_outline 478 | The Effect of Public Defender and Support Staff Caseloads on Incarceration Outcomes for Felony Defendants w/Aaron Gottlieb and Melissa Mahabir 05/20/2026
info_outline 477 | What Data Tells Us About the Public Defender Well Being Crisis Part 1 w/Jenny Andrews and Jon Jachimowicz 05/19/2026
info_outline 476 | What Can Public Defender Organizations Do to Help People With Their Student Debt? w/Jane Fox and Alexi Shalom 05/14/2026
info_outline 475 | Why is Cook County's State Attorney Fighting to Keep Exonerated People From Getting Certificates of Their Innocence w/Dan Hinkel 05/13/2026
info_outline 474 | The Lawyer Who Will Take on Corporations and Corrupt Government as Colorado's Attorney General w/David Seligman 05/12/2026
info_outline 473 | Public Defenders Should Tell the Courts and Their Clients How Many Cases they Have w/John Gross 05/07/2026
info_outline 472 | Can Former Public Defenders Improve the Bench in Multnomah County, Oregon? w/Kristine Almquist, Joe Hagedorn, Peter Klym, Joanna Perini-Abott, Chris Behre 05/05/2026
info_outline 471 | The Science of Second Chances w/Jennifer Doleac 04/30/2026
info_outline 470 | Why did the Marion County Public Defenders Decide to Unionize Their Office w/Lucy Frick and Tim Smith 04/28/2026
info_outline 469 | How Tennessee's Mass Incarceration Policies are Making the State less Safe w/Dawn Deaner 04/23/2026
 
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