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

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

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

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  • Public Defender Service, ACLU-DC Challenge D.C. Jail’s Failure to Protect Incarcerated Individuals From COVID-19 Pandemic

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  • Director Avis E. Buchanan receives the Washington Council of Lawyers 2014 President's Award for Public Service

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  • Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has recommended PDS alumna Jia Cobb to President Biden for the vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Congratulations, Jia!

    Read More Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has recommended PDS alumna Jia Cobb to President Biden for the vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Congratulations, Jia!
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  • The Washington Post

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

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  • National Geographic

    How Science Is Putting a New Face on Crime Solving

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  • D.C. Bar

    Avis E. Buchanan Honored With Thurgood Marshall Award

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  • The Guardian

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

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  • Washington Post

    Civil Rights Attorney Charles Ogletree’s Mind Is A Weapon. Now, It’s Fighting Him.

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  • The Washington Post

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

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