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  • Al Jazeera America

    Local cases overlooked in national review of flawed hair evidence

    Read More Local cases overlooked in national review of flawed hair evidence
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  • The Washington Post

    Improve D.C.'s Parole Practices

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  • The Washington Post

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

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  • FiveThirtyEight Science

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

    Read More DNA Evidence Has A Dark Side (featuring PDS alumna Erin Murphy)
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  • Washington Post

    The government wants to move the D.C. public defender’s office. That could be disastrous.

    Read More The government wants to move the D.C. public defender’s office. That could be disastrous.
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  • PUBLIC DEFENDERS MARCH FOR BLACK LIVES by Director Avis E. Buchanan

    Read More PUBLIC DEFENDERS MARCH FOR BLACK LIVES by Director Avis E. Buchanan
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  • A Call To Action: PUBLIC DEFENDERS MARCH FOR BLACK LIVES

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  • The White House

    President Obama Nominates Jason D. Tulley to Serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

    Read More President Obama Nominates Jason D. Tulley to Serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
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  • CCTV America

    FBI Admits to Flawed Forensic Analyses for Cases

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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.

    Read More She Was A Foster Kid. Now She's A D.C. Judge Overseeing The Foster System.
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  • The Institute of Politics at Harvard University

    Internship Reflections: Maya Jenkins '21

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  • Coronavirus-related court actions seek release of D.C. prisoners, psychiatric patients

    Read More Coronavirus-related court actions seek release of D.C. prisoners, psychiatric patients
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  • The Washington Post

    A New Rule Could Help Ensure That Prosecutors Share Info With The Defense

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  • The Washington Post

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

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  • D.C. jail inmates with coronavirus barred from access to lawyers, family, showers and changes of clothing, inspectors say

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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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  • Washington Post

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

    Read More Judge Orders D.C. to Pay $13.2 Million in Wrongful FBI Hair Conviction Case (PDS Client Santae A. Tribble)
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  • PDS to Receive the Washington Lawyers' Committee's Alfred McKenzie Award

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  • The New York Times

    Junk Science at the F.B.I.

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  • The Washington Post

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

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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 Shutdown Plan

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

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