First-Gen Chicana Public Defender | Abolitionist | she/her | *views are my own*
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I want to know whose tipping point for getting the vaccine was the _second_ Krispy Kreme donut.
Krispy Kreme ups the ante, now offering two free doughnuts with vaccine card hill.cm/903zL85
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24 Aug 2021
the FDA. has also fully approved. giving my forehead. a little smooch
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I don’t have advice for 1Ls. All I offer is this: I was a first generation law student. On my first day of law school, I’d never read a case, never talked to a lawyer in real life, and could not have distinguished a tort from a tart. It was bewildering at first and then it was ok
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15 Aug 2021
New rule: you can't respond to an email with "sorry for the delay" for at least 24 hours.
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12 Aug 2021
NEWS: The Colorado Federal Public Defender is hiring an Appellate Attorney to join its Appellate Section and handle criminal appeals from across the Tenth Circuit!
Please retweet! (cc: @attorneydad)
cofpd.org/employment/app-att…
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Absolutely this. District court case loads are unsustainable in Maryland. 26-32 cases set for trial in a single day with attorneys in court 2 or 3 times a week. We are struggling and our clients are the ones suffering the most.
7 Aug 2021
I’ve never been more concerned about the 6th amendment right to counsel. If courts don’t open, if caseloads aren’t reduced, if public defender offices aren’t properly funded - CLIENTS WILL SUFFER & THERE WILL BE NO ONE LEFT TO DO THE WORK! #FundPublicDefense #EndMassIncarceration
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8 Aug 2021
When the “be nice to fancy attorneys representing horrible causes” conversation comes up, someone always pops up to say, “If we don’t, people might start being mean to like…. public defenders!!” And I have bad news for y’all about how most of the world already feels about PDs.
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6 Aug 2021
Talked with a cop outside the grocery. She said shoplifting of food has gone up, and I said "That's sad—so many people have gotten desperate during the pandemic." And she said "Well it's mostly homeless people; I haven't caught many normal people stealing"
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6 Aug 2021
Breaking: The Biden admin will extend the freeze on federal student loans until Jan. 31, 2022, per official & sources familiar. The relief had been set to expire at the end of Sept.
Official describes this as a “final” extension.
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4 Aug 2021
Imagine what public defenders could do if their caseloads were cut in half. If they were provided with the necessary amount of investigators, paralegals, social workers, support staff & money for expert witnesses. Just imagine... #FundPublicDefense #EndMassIncarceration
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14 Jul 2021
Is it just me or does every public defender out there struggle with “I can’t do this anymore” after sobbing over a client and the pain of their life, magnified by the system…only to wake up and keep doing this?
And yes I have read Trauma Stewardship lol.
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10 Jul 2021
Committed public interest lawyers work themselves nearly to death for their clients. The implication that it is some kind of cushy job, and therefore that the often execrable pay is justified, is absurd.
10 Jul 2021
One thing I’ll say is that I think there is a misconception (or at least I had a misconception) that big law pay is super high because big law lawyers work so many hours and public interest pay is lower but you work so much less that it basically comes out in the wash….
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