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272 | The Challenges of Providing Holistic Defense in Rural North Carolina w/Beth Stang

Episode 272

mercredi 4 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:01:20

Today, Hunter is joined by our first North Carolina Public Defender, Beth Stang. Today, we will be discussing all that is going right, going wrong, and what the future holds for Public Defense in Beth’s office that covers Henderson, Transylvania, and Polk counties.

Guests:

Beth Stang, Chief Public Defender, Henderson, Transylvania, and Polk County, North Carolina

Resources:

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263 | What Changes are Coming to Fix Maine's Public Defense Crisis? w/Jim Billings

jeudi 8 août 2024 • Duration 01:01:29

Today, Hunter is joined by Jim Billings, the Executive Director of the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services. At the very start of the show, Hunter spoke with then Executive Director of the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services, Justin Andrus, to discuss the problems facing Maine Public Defense. As a reminder, Maine was the only state that relied 100% on contract lawyers and no full time public defense offices. Since then, the crisis has only worsened. There are hundreds of people currently without counsel, and while the long term outlook looks promising, the short to medium term outlook face serious problems.

Guests: Jim Billings, Executive Director, Maine Commission on Public Defense Services

Resources:

Maine Unrepresented Crisis

https://www.aclumaine.org/en/mainesgrowingcrisis

Man released after bail lowered due to lack of Public Defenders

https://www.necn.com/news/local/shortage-of-public-defenders-in-maine-allowed-release-of-man-who-caused-fiery-standoff/3261950/

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176: The Corruption and Coverup that Led to the Wrongful Conviction of Tim Wright w/Adam Deutsch

Episode 174

jeudi 19 octobre 2023 • Duration 49:07

Today, Hunter spoke with a longtime investigator in the innocence movement, Adam Deutsch, to discuss the wrongful conviction of Tim Wright. In 2008, was convicted of the murder of Justin Baumgardner, but after more than a decade behind bars, evidence is mounting that Tim is behind bars as a result of an elaborate cover up by the Amherst County Deputy Sheriffs. With the help of bad ballistics, bad cellular triangulation, and a witness with every motive to lie, Tim was convicted. Thankfully, there are people like Adam and Tim's wife Danielle tirelessly fighting for the truth to come to light.

Guests:

Adam Deutsch, Investigator and Founder of Synergy Intelligence Holdings

Resources:

Tim Wright 2018 Georgetown Making an Exoneree

Tim Wright Uncuff the Innocent

https://www.uncufftheinnocent.org/tim-wright-jr

Tim Wright’s Website

https://innocence4tim.com/

Tim Wright Twitter

https://twitter.com/innocence4tim?lang=en

Contact Adam

http://www.synergyintelligence.com/

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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2023/01/11/iowa-indigent-defense-attorneys-crisis-supreme-court-chief-justice/69792316007/

175: How Iowa Makes People Pay for Their Public Defenders w/Darren Page *AUDIO ISSUES CORRECTED*

Episode 175

mardi 17 octobre 2023 • Duration 01:09:29

*There was an issue with the file uploading to the podcast platforms. It has been corrected! Apologies*

Today, Hunter spoke with Iowa Public Defender, Darren Page, to peel back the layers of Public Defense in Iowa to try and understand why the Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court said the system was in a state of crisis. On many episodes, Hunter likes to explore how states determine if someone should get a Public Defender and if states make those who get a Public Defender reimburse the state for the costs. In Iowa, the state has decided to narrowly define who is too poor to qualify for a Public Defender while also mandating that people reimburse the state for costs. While this is not what’s causing the crisis, it is a signal of a system desperate for reforms.

Guests:

Darren Page, Assistant Public Defender, Des Moines, Iowa

Resources:

Iowa Public Defender in a state of Crisis

Iowa State Public defender

https://spd.iowa.gov/

Iowa Public Defender Strategic Plan 2019-2023

https://spd.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/SPD%20Strategic%20Plan%20-%202019-2023.pdf

Iowa Annual Public Defender Reports

https://spd.iowa.gov/about-us/spd-reports

Iowa Living Wage

https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/19

National Poverty Guidelines

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-FPL/

United Way Iowa

https://www.unitedwaydm.org/

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174: How UnCommon Law Challenges California's Broken System of Parole w/Keith Wattley

Episode 171

jeudi 12 octobre 2023 • Duration 01:03:04

Joining Hunter today is Keith Wattley, the Founder and Executive Director of Uncommon Law. Keith and his team at Uncommon Law support people navigating California's discretionary parole process through trauma-informed legal representation, mental health counselling, legislative and policy advocacy, and in-prison programming led by those who have been through the process themselves. For decades, people have been aware of the pervasive bias that infects the parole system of California, but little has changed to address it. That’s where Keith and Uncommon Law come in.

Guests:

Keith Wattley, Founder and Executive Director, Uncommon Law

Resources:

Uncommon Law Website

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1. The Compassion Prison Project has some great information about rates of trauma - in particular, childhood trauma - among people in prison, and the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and incarceration

2. The Sentencing Project has several really excellent reports about our country's enduring reliance on life sentencing, how ineffective these kinds of sentences actually are in promoting public safety, and the relationship between life sentencing and mass incarceration

3. Speaking of the Sentencing Project, Keith recently authored this op ed in The Crime Report with their Senior Director of Advocacy Nicole Porter, which explores similar ideas

4. The Justice Policy Institute recently released this analysis of Maryland's parole process, highlighting several of the same issues we see in California.

5. Similarly, there has been fairly regular coverage of the racial biases evident in New York's parole hearing decisions in recent years

6. Finally, feel free to check out this video series our organization put out last year; it explores cycles of violence from the perspectives of people who have both survived and caused harm, and gives a good sense of our work and messaging

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https://www.westword.com/news/elijah-mcclain-protesters-charges-dropped-12335973

173: Defending those that Protested Against Police Brutality and the Killing of Elijah McClain w/Amelia Power

Episode 170

mardi 10 octobre 2023 • Duration 48:11

Today, Hunter is joined by criminal defense attorney and former public defender Amelia Power to discuss her role in defending those who protested the killing of Elijah McClain. As is so often the case, those who used their 1st Amendment rights to protest the abuses of police found themselves facing hefty prison time.

Guests:

Amelia Power, Criminal Defense Attorney, Colorado

Resources:

Media Coverage of the Case

https://www.apowerlaw.com/media

Contact Amelia

https://www.apowerlaw.com/

Elijah McClain

https://www.nytimes.com/article/who-was-elijah-mcclain.html

FBI Informants in the Colorado Racial Justice Movement

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/07/fbi-denver-racial-justice-protests-informant/

Aurora Police Response to Violin Vigil

https://abcnews.go.com/US/city-aurora-sued-police-response-violin-vigil-elijah/story?id=71951197

PSL

https://pslweb.org/

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172: Manifesting Justice: How Wrongfully Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights w/Valena Beety

Episode 168

jeudi 5 octobre 2023 • Duration 01:00:34

While the Innocence Project has continuously done amazing work in revealing just how flawed our legal system can be, there has always been limits on the cases they take. Normally, these have been confined to cases where DNA evidence can definitively exonerate the wrongfully convicted. This practice can and does leave out countless people who are factually innocent behind bars. Today, Hunter spoke with Valena Beety to examine the women and LGBTQ community members who have been wrongfully convicted and how to best go about expanding the innocence movement.

Guests:

Valena Beety, Professor of Law, Indiana University Mercer School of Law, Founding Director of the West Virginia Innocence Project

Resources:

Valena Beety’s Webpage

https://valenabeety.com/

Buy Valena’s Book

Lambda Law

https://lambdalegal.org/

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https://innocenceproject.org/

171: The Innocence Project's Future Fight Against Racial Bias and Emerging Junk Sciences w/Christina Swarns

Episode 171

mardi 3 octobre 2023 • Duration 01:08:07

Few organizations have been able to demonstrate the injustice of our criminal legal system quite like the Innocence Project, but their fight against the things that manifest that injustice is far from over. Today, I spoke with Christina Swarns, Executive Director of the Innocence Project, to discuss how the organization plans to combat some of the most pressing issues contributing to wrongful convictions. From massively overworked Public Defenders, all kinds of implicit biases, and ever emerging forensic sciences, the Innocence Project hopes that their continued public advocacy will push back against these societal ills.

Guests:

Christina Swarns, Executive Director, Innocence Project

Resources:

Innocence Project Website

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/innocence?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/innocenceproject/?hl=en

Buck v Davis

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-8049_f2ah.pdf

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2016/15-8049

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