| former federal inmate | ICriminal Defense Attorney | ΚΑΨ | Opponent of cash bail and mass incarceration!
Cincinnati, OH
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From behind bars, to passing the bar, these lawyers began their career paths in prison. ow.ly/FspN50TVnMf @daniellebraff
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You can feel bad for yourself and do nothing. Or you can stop feeling bad for yourself and do better.
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A feel good story to start your weekend. A former inmate now a public defender. Our own @_LindsayStone sat down with Damon Davis and shares his inspiring story! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 wlwt.com/article/stay-focuse…
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If you’re a Black man, there’s nothing “routine” about a traffic stop. As the General Counsel of a major company, I was stopped because my car’s tinted windows were too dark. The officer wanted to know how I could afford such a car: Was I a drug dealer? – at Detroit, MI
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THREAD: As cops try to spin Uvalde as one bad choice by a bad police commander from a brand new small “cowardly” police department, please remember these facts:
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So let me get this straight: conservatives love free speech for Elon Musk, but hate free speech for Colin Kaepernick?
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More than 100 Black law students from 17 schools will gather at the nation's capital this week for events marking Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing. abcn.ws/3L4vYG7
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.@cdkang76 opens up tonight’s reception highlighting important facts about our criminal legal system:
- Out of 115 Supreme Court justices in U.S. history, *zero* have been public defenders
- Only 3% of federal judges have been public defenders
#ConfirmKBJ
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My commentary on Brian Flores & systemic racism in the NFL: Owners love Black bodies brutally beating each other on the field for their profits but they don't believe Black minds are intelligent enough to lead winning NFL teams.
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If you're a Christian and celebrating the killings of two people this weekend, you should skip church unless you're going to go and pray for yourself.
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PSA for those of you who don’t practice criminal law: all courtrooms are like Rittenhouse’s. Judges do whatever they want.
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One thing I wish more people understood is that you become subhuman in the eyes of the state the moment it deems you a "suspect"—no matter how trivial the alleged infraction, and no matter whether you've been detained, arrested, convicted, or incarcerated. /1
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A former-prosecutor friend estimates avg cost of non-capital felony prosecution culminating in jury trial at >$100K, versus <$10K to resolve same case by plea. Seems like a good gut check—if yr not willing to spend $100K to take away someone's freedom, then perhaps you shouldn't.
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Whenever media sensationalizes "rising crime rates" & police start screaming for more money & less investment in alternatives, think: Given the historic amount we spend on police, if they actually made us safer, there shouldn't be crime at all, let alone "rising." It's a big lie.
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NEW: CDC now recommends that all student loan debt be cancelled. – at San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Historian Rashid Khalidi on Gaza: "One wonders what proportion you have to have of Arab deaths, of Palestinian deaths, over Israeli deaths. Is it 20 to 1 before the United States finally begins to recognize that this is not legitimate self defense?" bit.ly/2RXCqZC
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Justices declined to take up the case of a death row inmate who was forced to stand shackled in front of the jury and reenact the crime using a toy gun while the prosecutor played the role of the victim. blawgo.com/v76i6qz
