67th President of @NACDL. Posts after 7.12.25 are from President Andrew Birrell. Posts dated 7.27.24-7.11.25 are from Past President Christopher Wellborn.
Joined February 2017
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20 Aug 2025
From my column for The Champion Magazine: Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal landscape at breakneck speed. Defense lawyers must embrace AI technology to enhance their advocacy, streamline their practices, and level the playing field.
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News Release: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Condemns DOJ Directive on Denaturalization
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News Release: Nation's Criminal Defense Bar Condemns Executive Overreach, Deployment of National Guard in Los Angeles
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26 Feb 2025
From my latest column for The Champion magazine: It has always been a presidential prerogative to pardon or commute federal sentences. Here is a modest proposal: What if all federal convictions were reviewed for pardons?
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15 Oct 2024
From my latest column for The Champion: in an era of electronic discovery & ever-increasing information dumps, defense lawyers face challenges examining terabytes of information from discovery requests.
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2 Oct 2024
In my inaugural column for The Champion Magazine, I share stories of defenders throughout history who risked their careers, reputations, and personal safety to stand up for their clients.
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12 Jul 2024
In my latest column for The Champion, Dr. Ilia Kolochenko and I discuss how lawyers can identify the biases Generative AI may support and implement creative safeguards to ensure the presumption of innocence is maintained in courtrooms.
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17 Jun 2024
📰@NACDL Calls for Immediate Action to Combat Rampant Prosecutorial Misconduct in FL: “Until this serious problem is remedied, our legal system will continue to suffer & the respect accorded it by the public will continue to diminish"@NACDLPresident @FACDL buff.ly/45KjKhP
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📰@NACDL Calls for Immediate Action to Combat Rampant Prosecutorial Misconduct in FL: “Until this serious problem is remedied, our legal system will continue to suffer & the respect accorded it by the public will continue to diminish"@NACDLPresident @FACDL buff.ly/45KjKhP
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"This is one of these examples where you can have an overzealous prosecutor and apply it to certain situations that it shouldn't be applied to," he told @CBSNews."
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Happening now: Supreme Court to examine federal obstruction law used to prosecute Trump and Jan. 6 rioters
"Michael Heiskell, @NACDLPresident, agreed that prosecutors' application of the statute is too broad, and warned it can lead to overcriminalization."cbsnews.com/news/supreme-cou…
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15 Apr 2024
📣 My latest @Medium column dives deep into the inspiring journey of a law school professor and former student who played a crucial role in overturning 100-year-old convictions of 110 Black soldiers from the Camp Logan riots.
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Join @NACDL during the month of April as we celebrate #SecondChanceMonth and continue to fight for a system that gives everyone a second chance.
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Tomorrow is #PublicDefenseDay! Make a real difference by supporting NACDL's public defense scholarship fund. Your donations allow NACDL to offer financial assistance to hundreds of attorneys working in public defense.
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Opinion by @NACDL Executive Director @lmonet and @Gideons_Promise Executive Director Zanele Ngubeni: Celebrate Public Defense Lawyers, Fortify Public Defense Systems
#PublicDefenseDay #GideonsDays @InsideSourcesDC
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📢 Join @NACDL in celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth & #PublicDefenseDay with a free, insightful webinar! Explore the impactful contributions of women to the history of public defense and the challenges still faced today.
🗓️ March 20, 12-1pm ET
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ALT Strong Women, Bold Defense. Clara Shortridge Foltz featured on an NACDL logo graphic.
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📢STARTING NOW📢 the @USCCRgov will begin their briefing on "Civil Rights Implications of the Federal Use of Facial Recognition Technology." #FRT #AI #CivilRights #USCCRbriefing
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Police Are Using Celebrities to Make Arrests?? 🎬🚔
🗣 Speaker: Clare Garvie @ClareAngelyn
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9 Feb 2024
Read my latest column from The Champion magazine on strategies criminal defense lawyers can employ in the face of coercive plea bargaining: nacdl.medium.com/from-the-pr…
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