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    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 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
    Read More District Juveniles Will No Longer Be Routinely Shackled in 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.

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  • 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.
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  • Avis E. Buchanan will be a co-recipient of the 2020 Servant of Justice Award by the Legal Aid Society of D.C.

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  • Santae Tribble, whose wrongful conviction revealed FBI forensic hair match flaws, dies at 59

    Read More Santae Tribble, whose wrongful conviction revealed FBI forensic hair match flaws, dies at 59
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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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  • The Washington Post

    Forensic Errors Trigger Reviews of D.C. Crime Lab Ballistics Unit, Prosecutors Say

    Read More Forensic Errors Trigger Reviews of D.C. Crime Lab Ballistics Unit, Prosecutors Say
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  • PDS Alumni Recognized as Top Lawyers in Washington, D.C. in the December 2020 Issue of Washingtonian

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  • The Washington Post

    Judge Blasts District Agency for Treatment of Defendants with Mental Illness (The Washington Post)

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  • Washington Post

    Authorities said video showed a man committed murder. He spent 13 days in jail before his defense team proved it didn’t.

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  • Judge orders emergency D.C. jail overhaul of medical, cleaning, ‘social distancing’ practices and defense lawyer access to stem coronavirus from The Washington Post

    Read More Judge orders emergency D.C. jail overhaul of medical, cleaning, ‘social distancing’ practices and defense lawyer access to stem coronavirus from The Washington Post
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  • PDSDC

    Director Avis E. Buchanan receives Wiley A. Branton Award for her lifetime commitment to civil rights advocacy

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  • History News Network

    Thou Shalt Not Ration Justice

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    The FBI's Flawed Justice

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  • Washington Post (Editorial Board)

    The District Police’s Unreasonable Searches and Seizures

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  • 400 Inmates to be Removed from DC Jail Facility After Inspection

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