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Coronavirus Court Precautions Can Lead to Unforeseen Complications

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|Date: August 07, 2020
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Coronavirus Court Precautions Can Lead to Unforeseen Complications

By Phoebe Glick FRESNO - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, California superior courts—including Fresn ...

By Phoebe Glick FRESNO - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, California superior courts—including Fresno Superior Court—have shifted their procedures in order to protect the public, with startling i ...

August 07, 2020
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Progressive Philly DA Disappointed PA Supreme Court Fails to Act to Reform Philly’s Broken Cash Bail System

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|Date: July 30, 2020
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Progressive Philly DA Disappointed PA Supreme Court Fails to Act to Reform Philly’s Broken Cash Bail System

By Ayanna Gandhi PHILADELPHIA – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision not to act to reform “Philadelp ...

By Ayanna Gandhi PHILADELPHIA – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision not to act to reform “Philadelphia’s unjust and inefficient cash bail system” was a disappointment, said Philadelphia District ...

July 30, 2020
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San Francisco Ends Zero Bail Policy, Draws Criticism from DA and Public Defender

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|Date: June 20, 2020
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San Francisco Ends Zero Bail Policy, Draws Criticism from DA and Public Defender

San Francisco, unlike other counties, made the decision to end the policy of zero bail during the COVID-1 ...

San Francisco, unlike other counties, made the decision to end the policy of zero bail during the COVID-19 pandemic. The zero-bail policy was designed to ensure that jail populations could be maintai ...

June 20, 2020
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Sacramento Judge Declares $800K Bail Excessive, Reduces to $225K after Defendant Intervenes

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|Date: June 16, 2020
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Sacramento Judge Declares $800K Bail Excessive, Reduces to $225K after Defendant Intervenes

By Angelina Caplanis SACRAMENTO — An expected simple scheduling hearing in Sacramento County Superior Cou ...

By Angelina Caplanis SACRAMENTO — An expected simple scheduling hearing in Sacramento County Superior Court last Friday, June 12, instead turned into a full-fledged bail review when defendant Majestic ...

June 16, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 68: Melissa Mark-Viverito Runs for Congress in the Bronx

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 22, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 68: Melissa Mark-Viverito Runs for Congress in the Bronx

Melissa Mark-Viverito, born in Puerto Rico, has been a councilmember in New York City, representing areas ...

Melissa Mark-Viverito, born in Puerto Rico, has been a councilmember in New York City, representing areas of the Bronx for several terms, and she is running to replace longtime House of Representative ...

May 22, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Yolo DA Continues to Present Anecdotes on Zero Bail

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 17, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Yolo DA Continues to Present Anecdotes on Zero Bail

Every time the Yolo County DA has put out a press release on someone committing a new crime after being r ...

Every time the Yolo County DA has put out a press release on someone committing a new crime after being released, they have failed to put the story in proper context. Nowhere do they let the media or ...

May 17, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 67 – Mimi Rocah, Westchester DA Candidate

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|Date: May 13, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 67 – Mimi Rocah, Westchester DA Candidate

Mimi Rocah is a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, serving fro ...

Mimi Rocah is a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, serving from February 2001 until October 2017. She is running for DA in Westchester County, NY. She is run ...

May 13, 2020
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SF Public Defenders Calls Zero Bail a Critical Tool to Prevent Spread of COVID-19 in Jails

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|Date: April 14, 2020
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SF Public Defenders Calls Zero Bail a Critical Tool to Prevent Spread of COVID-19 in Jails

Today’s Emergency Bail Schedule implementation means people should be released from jails throughout the ...

Today’s Emergency Bail Schedule implementation means people should be released from jails throughout the state starting at 5pm (From Press Release - SF Public Defender)--- On April 6, the Judicial Cou ...

April 14, 2020
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Reaction to the Judicial Council Reducing Bail to Zero

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|Date: April 07, 2020
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Reaction to the Judicial Council Reducing Bail to Zero

It was a highly anticipated move by the California Judicial Council and while we captured some reaction f ...

It was a highly anticipated move by the California Judicial Council and while we captured some reaction from across the state – but interestingly enough, other than Jackie Lacey, a DA facing a runoff ...

April 07, 2020
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Fashion Line Profits to Go to National Cash Bail Network Fund in Response to COVID-19

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|Date: April 07, 2020
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Fashion Line Profits to Go to National Cash Bail Network Fund in Response to COVID-19

By Murcel Rahimi GRAND RAPIDS, MI- With the coronavirus pandemic expanding, many prisons across the natio ...

By Murcel Rahimi GRAND RAPIDS, MI- With the coronavirus pandemic expanding, many prisons across the nation are working to release eligible incarcerated individuals to prevent the further spread of the ...

April 07, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 57 – Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez

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|Date: April 06, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 57 – Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez

Eric Gonzalez was appointed the DA of Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, in 2016 after Ken Thompson, his ...

Eric Gonzalez was appointed the DA of Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, in 2016 after Ken Thompson, his predecessor, died. In 2017, he won his own term. We talked extensively about the COVID-19 threa ...

April 06, 2020
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NY Politicians Disagree with New NY Bail Rollback

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|Date: April 06, 2020
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NY Politicians Disagree with New NY Bail Rollback

By Linh Nguyen NEW YORK -- On Apr 2, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo passed a budget bill that inclu ...

By Linh Nguyen NEW YORK -- On Apr 2, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo passed a budget bill that included a controversial change to the state’s bail law. Since Jan. 1, 2020, the New York state bail ...

April 06, 2020
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New York Defense Groups Denounce Governor Cuomo’s Reversal of Bail Reform

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|Date: April 02, 2020
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New York Defense Groups Denounce Governor Cuomo’s Reversal of Bail Reform

By Shellsea Lomeli NEW YORK - A number of New York defense groups released a statement together, advocati ...

By Shellsea Lomeli NEW YORK - A number of New York defense groups released a statement together, advocating against the return of the state’s cash bail system - a threat posed by the state government’ ...

April 02, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 54 – Salt Lake DA Sim Gill

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|Date: March 30, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 54 – Salt Lake DA Sim Gill

Sim Gill, born in India, is the first Indian-American prosecutor in the US and one of only two elected De ...

Sim Gill, born in India, is the first Indian-American prosecutor in the US and one of only two elected Democrats in the entire state of Utah. He first was elected in November 2010. He has enacted a se ...

March 30, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 53 – Boulder DA Michael Dougherty

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 27, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 53 – Boulder DA Michael Dougherty

Michael Dougherty came to Boulder from Manhattan and worked as a deputy in the DA's office for nearly 20 ...

Michael Dougherty came to Boulder from Manhattan and worked as a deputy in the DA's office for nearly 20 years before being appointed in 2018 to replace the long time prosecutor. He then won on his ow ...

March 27, 2020
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Pennsylvania Public Defenders Not Reinstated Despite Public Outcry Over Firing

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|Date: March 07, 2020
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Pennsylvania Public Defenders Not Reinstated Despite Public Outcry Over Firing

Montgomery County Chief Public Defender Dean Beer and Deputy Chief Keisha Hudson were fired last month fo ...

Montgomery County Chief Public Defender Dean Beer and Deputy Chief Keisha Hudson were fired last month for filing an amicus brief critical of the county’s bail setting practices. by Joshua Vaughn Desp ...

March 07, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Gascón Earns a Big Endorsement from LA Times

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|Date: February 24, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Gascón Earns a Big Endorsement from LA Times

We are just about a week out from the primary election and, aside from the presidential race, one of the ...

We are just about a week out from the primary election and, aside from the presidential race, one of the big races we are following is the Los Angeles District Attorney race. We were down in Los Ange ...

February 24, 2020
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The Path to Liberation Does Not Go through Pretrial Punishment

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|Date: February 16, 2020
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The Path to Liberation Does Not Go through Pretrial Punishment

By Vaidya Gullapalli On Monday, a caller to the Brian Lehrer Show expressed his discomfort with the curre ...

By Vaidya Gullapalli On Monday, a caller to the Brian Lehrer Show expressed his discomfort with the current debate about recent bail reforms in New York. The caller, a lawyer from near Lake Placid, Ne ...

February 16, 2020
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My View: Elimination of Cash Bail and ARC – Two Things the County Should Prioritize

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 15, 2020
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My View: Elimination of Cash Bail and ARC – Two Things the County Should Prioritize

One of the new things in politics is that candidates and their volunteers send text messages to potential ...

One of the new things in politics is that candidates and their volunteers send text messages to potential voters. The nice thing about them is that they are from real people – not just robocalls. I ...

February 15, 2020
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Bail Reform Doesn’t Mean Automatic Pretrial Release in San Francisco

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 13, 2020
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Bail Reform Doesn’t Mean Automatic Pretrial Release in San Francisco

SF DA Policy: "Pretrial detention will be based on public safety, not on wealth." SAN FRANCISCO - Bail re ...

SF DA Policy: "Pretrial detention will be based on public safety, not on wealth." SAN FRANCISCO - Bail reform has become a centerpiece to the progressive reform movement of the criminal justice system ...

February 13, 2020
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