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  • Legal scholar Barbara Allen Babcock, the first woman member of the Stanford law faculty, has died at 81

    Read More Legal scholar Barbara Allen Babcock, the first woman member of the Stanford law faculty, has died at 81
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  • The New York Times

    Junk Science at the F.B.I.

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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)

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  • US Senate confirms Indian-American Priyavadan Mehta as a federal judge

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  • Washingtonian Magazine

    Why DC’s Public Defender Service Is Among the Country’s Best: An interview with Avis Buchanan, who runs the agency.

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  • PDS to Receive the Washington Lawyers' Committee's Alfred McKenzie Award

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  • Defense Attorneys Are the Best Line of Defense Against the COVID-19 Pandemic for Incarcerated People

    Read More Defense Attorneys Are the Best Line of Defense Against the COVID-19 Pandemic for Incarcerated People
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  • The Washington Post

    Local man (PDS Supervising Staff Attorney Jeffrey Stein) wins 2018 Marine Corps Marathon; 2015 winner takes women’s division

    Read More Local man (PDS Supervising Staff Attorney Jeffrey Stein) wins 2018 Marine Corps Marathon; 2015 winner takes women’s division
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  • Federal Judge Orders Sweeping Reforms to D.C. Jail Conditions During COVID-19

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  • PDS Director Avis E. Buchanan Receives Servant of Justice Award

    Read More PDS Director Avis E. Buchanan Receives Servant of Justice Award
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  • CNN

    Charges Dropped in Chandra Levy Murder

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  • Public Defenders In D.C. Say The U.S. Parole Commission Is Keeping Too Many People Jailed During The Pandemic

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  • The Washington Post

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

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  • PDS Shutdown Plan

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  • PDS Alumnus David Reiser of Zuckerman Spaeder Will Receive the D.C. Bar's 2021 Brennan Award Winner

    Read More PDS Alumnus David Reiser of Zuckerman Spaeder Will Receive the D.C. Bar's 2021 Brennan Award Winner
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  • Huffington Post

    Expanding the Role of Public Defenders in Reentry: Improving Public Safety, Protecting the Rights of Formerly Incarcerated People

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  • NBC News

    Do You Have an Unknown Criminal History?

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  • The Washington Post

    Judge Orders D.C. to Pay Record $9.2 Million in Wrongful Conviction Case

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  • D.C. Council Votes to Overhaul Asset Forfeiture, Give Property Owners New Rights

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  • Barbara Babcock, legal trailblazer who led D.C. Public Defender Service, dies at 81

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  • PDS Alumna Premal Dharia Joins Harvard Law School as Inaugural Executive Director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration

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  • Director of Embattled D.C. Crime Lab Stepping Down

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  • U.S. Parole Commission Bends to Demands From Defense Attorneys and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton

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  • Former PDS deputy director Judge Anita Josey-Herring has been appointed Chief Judge of the D.C. Superior Court

    Read More Former PDS deputy director Judge Anita Josey-Herring has been appointed Chief Judge of the D.C. Superior Court
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