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Philadelphia District Attorney and Public Defender’s Offices Work toward Reducing Population of Incarcerated

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|Date: April 06, 2020
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Philadelphia District Attorney and Public Defender’s Offices Work toward Reducing Population of Incarcerated

By Lea Barrios PHILADELPHIA - District Attorney Larry Krasner and Public Defender Keir Bradford-Grey rele ...

By Lea Barrios PHILADELPHIA - District Attorney Larry Krasner and Public Defender Keir Bradford-Grey released a statement in Philadelphia urging courts to reevaluate sentences for release to prevent t ...

April 06, 2020
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SF Public Defender Calls for Release of Immigrant Detainees, Philly DA Urges Reduction of Prison Population to Prevent Outbreak

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|Date: March 20, 2020
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SF Public Defender Calls for Release of Immigrant Detainees, Philly DA Urges Reduction of Prison Population to Prevent Outbreak

SF Public Defender Calls for Release of Immigrant Detainees at Yuba County Jail and Mesa Verde Detention ...

SF Public Defender Calls for Release of Immigrant Detainees at Yuba County Jail and Mesa Verde Detention Center (From press release) All across the criminal justice system, concern have been raised ab ...

March 20, 2020
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Philadelphia DA Announces Safety Measures against COVID-19, Including Exploring Release Options with the Public Defender

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: March 17, 2020
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Philadelphia DA Announces Safety Measures against COVID-19, Including Exploring Release Options with the Public Defender

By Danielle Silva On March 16, 2020, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced guidelines th ...

By Danielle Silva On March 16, 2020, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced guidelines that the District Attorney’s Office will be pursuing in response to the coronavirus pandemic, inc ...

March 17, 2020
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Krasner Fires Back at McGregor Scott and Trump During Remarks to Symposium at Hastings

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 09, 2020
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Krasner Fires Back at McGregor Scott and Trump During Remarks to Symposium at Hastings

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner was not in San Francisco on Friday, but he was a center point of the Sympos ...

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner was not in San Francisco on Friday, but he was a center point of the Symposium on Progressive Prosecution. The progressive prosecutor really jump started the movement wh ...

February 09, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Keeping an Eye on Crime Rates Crucial For Progressive Prosecution Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 23, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Keeping an Eye on Crime Rates Crucial For Progressive Prosecution Reform

The historic drop in crime rate over the last several decades combined with the disproportionate incarcer ...

The historic drop in crime rate over the last several decades combined with the disproportionate incarceration in the US compared to the rest of the world has fueled criminal justice reform which has ...

December 23, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Why Don’t We Have a Sentence Review Unit?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 15, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Why Don’t We Have a Sentence Review Unit?

On Monday, Ajay Dev's case will be back in Judge Janene Beronio's Yolo County courtroom. As most who have ...

On Monday, Ajay Dev's case will be back in Judge Janene Beronio's Yolo County courtroom. As most who have read these pages for any length of time know, I have long believed that Ajay Dev was wrongly c ...

December 15, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Prosecutors Can Right Past Wrongs—If Only the System Lets Them

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 12, 2019
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Prosecutors Can Right Past Wrongs—If Only the System Lets Them

More prosecutors are trying to root out wrongful convictions and restore trust in the legal system. They’ ...

More prosecutors are trying to root out wrongful convictions and restore trust in the legal system. They’re meeting opposition on all sides. By Nina Morrison and Somil Trivedi Lamar Johnson, a 45-year ...

December 12, 2019
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Commentary: Zero Is the Number Freed by Conviction Integrity Units Here

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 14, 2019
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Commentary: Zero Is the Number Freed by Conviction Integrity Units Here

According to an article this week in the Washington Post, there are now 49 conviction review units in DA ...

According to an article this week in the Washington Post, there are now 49 conviction review units in DA offices across the US – most of those started in the last five years. The Washington Post on Tu ...

November 14, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Gascón Is a Reformer on Paper Only

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 07, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Gascón Is a Reformer on Paper Only

If You Are Looking for Progressive Prosecution and Transformative Change, Look to the Grassroots like Kra ...

If You Are Looking for Progressive Prosecution and Transformative Change, Look to the Grassroots like Krasner, Rollins, Caban, Johansson, and Chesa Boudin It is an interesting article in the NY Times, ...

October 07, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Boston Prosecutor Wanted to Dismiss Cases; Judge Threw Defendants in Jail Instead

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 08, 2019
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Boston Prosecutor Wanted to Dismiss Cases; Judge Threw Defendants in Jail Instead

By Sarah Lustbader “Even before Boston Municipal Court Judge Richard Sinnott had defense attorney Susan C ...

By Sarah Lustbader “Even before Boston Municipal Court Judge Richard Sinnott had defense attorney Susan Church handcuffed on Wednesday morning, proceedings in his courtroom had gotten bizarre—and worr ...

September 08, 2019
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Larry Krasner Helped to Defuse an Armed Standoff. Now a Trump Appointee Is Saying Krasner Caused It.

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 17, 2019
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Larry Krasner Helped to Defuse an Armed Standoff. Now a Trump Appointee Is Saying Krasner Caused It.

By Sarah Lustbader At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, while attempting to serve a warrant, Philadelphia police fo ...

By Sarah Lustbader At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, while attempting to serve a warrant, Philadelphia police found themselves under fire. Six of them were shot, and although none were seriously injured, the ...

August 17, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: A New Era of Reform DA’s Began This Week

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 06, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: A New Era of Reform DA’s Began This Week

This week I had an interesting conversation with a man who had lost in an effort to put a progressive DA ...

This week I had an interesting conversation with a man who had lost in an effort to put a progressive DA in an adjacent county this past year. His comment to me after talking about the Yolo Coun ...

January 06, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Ending Mass Incarceration and Reinventing the Role of the Modern Prosecutor

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 29, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Ending Mass Incarceration and Reinventing the Role of the Modern Prosecutor

The New Yorker this week has a feature article on Larry Krasner, the reform-minded district attorney of P ...

The New Yorker this week has a feature article on Larry Krasner, the reform-minded district attorney of Philadelphia. After watching Dean Johansson this year nearly pull off his own improbable run, i ...

October 29, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: A Way Forward for Criminal Justice Reform If the DA Wants It

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 22, 2018
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Commentary: A Way Forward for Criminal Justice Reform If the DA Wants It

This week, the Vanguard column, supported by information from across the country, created a bit of a stir ...

This week, the Vanguard column, supported by information from across the country, created a bit of a stir with correspondence coming in locally. Looking at Philadelphia as a model for criminal justic ...

August 22, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: What True Progressive Leadership of the DA’s Office Would Look Like

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 20, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: What True Progressive Leadership of the DA’s Office Would Look Like

During the hotly contested election for district attorney, the Davis Enterprise, in endorsing incumbent D ...

During the hotly contested election for district attorney, the Davis Enterprise, in endorsing incumbent DA Jeff Reisig, wrote: “Despite efforts by those opposed to him to portray him as something that ...

August 20, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Down Goes Another Prosecutor

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 09, 2018
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Commentary: Down Goes Another Prosecutor

Conventional wisdom has been turned on its head. Prosecutors who seek reelection are usually unopposed a ...

Conventional wisdom has been turned on its head. Prosecutors who seek reelection are usually unopposed and, even when they are challenged, they almost always win reelection. But that conventional wi ...

August 09, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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