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Avis E. Buchanan Honored With Thurgood Marshall Award
Mar 16, 2016
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Washington Post
A Familiar Story: D.C. Police Conduct Violent Home Raids Based on Scant Evidence
Mar 9, 2016
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Washington Post (Editorial Board)
The District Police’s Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
Mar 8, 2016
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Washington Post
Judge Orders D.C. to Pay $13.2 Million in Wrongful FBI Hair Conviction Case (PDS Client Santae A. Tribble)
Feb 28, 2016
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FiveThirtyEight Science
DNA Evidence Has A Dark Side (featuring PDS alumna Erin Murphy)
Dec 9, 2015
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The Washington Post
D.C. Court Considers How To Screen Out ‘Bad Science’ In Local Trials
Nov 24, 2015
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The Washington Post
27 Years Locked Up For A Crime He Didn’t Commit
Nov 22, 2015
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WAMU 88.5 American University Radio
She Was A Foster Kid. Now She's A D.C. Judge Overseeing The Foster System.
Nov 19, 2015
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The Washington Post
D.C. police framed man imprisoned 27 years for 1981 murder, U.S. jury finds
Nov 17, 2015
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NBC News
Do You Have an Unknown Criminal History?
Sep 10, 2015
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Al Jazeera America
Local cases overlooked in national review of flawed hair evidence
Aug 16, 2015
Read More Local cases overlooked in national review of flawed hair evidence
The Washington Post
Improve D.C.'s Parole Practices
Aug 13, 2015
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The Washington Post
Representing Freddie Gray's Family: A Venerable Lawyer in Cases Involving Race, Police, and Death
Jul 24, 2015
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The Guardian
The Man Who Was Jailed for 22 Years - on the Fantasy Evidence of a Single Hair
Jun 22, 2015
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The Washington Post
D.C. Man Imprisoned by Flawed FBI Forensic Evidence Exonerated
May 25, 2015
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The Washington Post
The FBI's Flawed Justice
May 11, 2015
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CCTV America
FBI Admits to Flawed Forensic Analyses for Cases
Apr 29, 2015
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The New York Times
Junk Science at the F.B.I.
Apr 27, 2015
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The Washington Post
District Juveniles Will No Longer Be Routinely Shackled in Court
Apr 13, 2015
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Federal Judge Orders Sweeping Reforms to D.C. Jail Conditions During COVID-19
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The Washington Post
D.C. Lets Some People With Outstanding Warrants Do a ‘Safe Surrender’ at Court
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Law Students in Court
PDS Director Avis E. Buchanan Receives the 2018 Law Students in Court Celebration of Service Award
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D.C. wants to take back parole from the feds. But it’s taken almost no action as deadline looms.
Read More D.C. wants to take back parole from the feds. But it’s taken almost no action as deadline looms.
Claire Blumenson, former PDS fellow and executive director and co-founder of the School Justice Project, to receive the University of Virginia School of Law's Shaping Justice Rising Star Award.
Read More Claire Blumenson, former PDS fellow and executive director and co-founder of the School Justice Project, to receive the University of Virginia School of Law's Shaping Justice Rising Star Award.

PDS In the News

Avis E. Buchanan Honored With Thurgood Marshall Award

A Familiar Story: D.C. Police Conduct Violent Home Raids Based on Scant Evidence

The District Police’s Unreasonable Searches and Seizures

Judge Orders D.C. to Pay $13.2 Million in Wrongful FBI Hair Conviction Case (PDS Client Santae A. Tribble)

DNA Evidence Has A Dark Side (featuring PDS alumna Erin Murphy)

D.C. Court Considers How To Screen Out ‘Bad Science’ In Local Trials

27 Years Locked Up For A Crime He Didn’t Commit

She Was A Foster Kid. Now She's A D.C. Judge Overseeing The Foster System.

D.C. police framed man imprisoned 27 years for 1981 murder, U.S. jury finds

Do You Have an Unknown Criminal History?

Local cases overlooked in national review of flawed hair evidence

Improve D.C.'s Parole Practices

Representing Freddie Gray's Family: A Venerable Lawyer in Cases Involving Race, Police, and Death

The Man Who Was Jailed for 22 Years - on the Fantasy Evidence of a Single Hair

D.C. Man Imprisoned by Flawed FBI Forensic Evidence Exonerated

The FBI's Flawed Justice

FBI Admits to Flawed Forensic Analyses for Cases

Junk Science at the F.B.I.

District Juveniles Will No Longer Be Routinely Shackled in Court

Federal Judge Orders Sweeping Reforms to D.C. Jail Conditions During COVID-19

D.C. Lets Some People With Outstanding Warrants Do a ‘Safe Surrender’ at Court

PDS Director Avis E. Buchanan Receives the 2018 Law Students in Court Celebration of Service Award

D.C. wants to take back parole from the feds. But it’s taken almost no action as deadline looms.

Claire Blumenson, former PDS fellow and executive director and co-founder of the School Justice Project, to receive the University of Virginia School of Law's Shaping Justice Rising Star Award.