Angelo Petrigh
@apetrigh.bsky.social
Clinical Assoc. Prof. at BU Law's Crim Clinic, former public defender at the Bronx Defenders. he/him
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Angelo Petrigh
@apetrigh.bsky.social
· Feb 6
My latest is out in BU Law Rev. It argues that the tension inherent in counseling clients as a defender is a testament to the power of the counseling space and urges ways to turn that contradiction into a strength. Check it out and the thoughtful response from @ahoagfordjour.bsky.social
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It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this
Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.
June 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this
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Must-read: ‘Letter to Columbia’ written from political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
A Letter to Columbia
<i>Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA </i>’24<i>. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detaine...
www.columbiaspectator.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Must-read: ‘Letter to Columbia’ written from political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
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It took me 28 years to go from carceral feminist to abolitionist. @saaarah.bsky.social tells that story here.
The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants to Stop Arresting People for Domestic Violence
For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s pushing for the opposite.
www.newyorker.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It took me 28 years to go from carceral feminist to abolitionist. @saaarah.bsky.social tells that story here.
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Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to "streamline" reforms passed five years ago to ensure fair and speedy criminal court proceedings. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."
hellgatenyc.com/discovery-re...
hellgatenyc.com/discovery-re...
Discovery Reform: Why It Matters, and Who Wants to Kill It
Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to tweak reforms made five years ago. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."
hellgatenyc.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to "streamline" reforms passed five years ago to ensure fair and speedy criminal court proceedings. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."
hellgatenyc.com/discovery-re...
hellgatenyc.com/discovery-re...
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“Prisons were transformed into a wedge that encouraged white guards to see their class mobility as tied to the criminalization of the racialized poor.” —Orisanmi Burton, author of ‘Tip of the Spear’ ( @ucpress.bsky.social ), on the deadly NY prison guard strike.
The Hidden War Fueling the New York Prison Guard Strike - Inquest
The deadly labor action can best be understood in the context of white supremacy and class struggle.
inquest.org
March 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Prisons were transformed into a wedge that encouraged white guards to see their class mobility as tied to the criminalization of the racialized poor.” —Orisanmi Burton, author of ‘Tip of the Spear’ ( @ucpress.bsky.social ), on the deadly NY prison guard strike.
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Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.
February 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.
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Hochul’s move here is profoundly racist and dehumanizing. Defining Palestinian studies as fundamentally antisemitic means defining Palestinians as something to be erased. It is genocidal.
This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.
This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Hochul’s move here is profoundly racist and dehumanizing. Defining Palestinian studies as fundamentally antisemitic means defining Palestinians as something to be erased. It is genocidal.
This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.
This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.
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We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.
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OGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf | Powered by Box
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February 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.
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LPE friends, big announcement! 🔥🔥 This Sept, the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association! Been working hard on this, with an amazing crowd of LPE fac and groups - more here: law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau....
Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference - School of Law - University of Richmond
law.richmond.edu
February 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
LPE friends, big announcement! 🔥🔥 This Sept, the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association! Been working hard on this, with an amazing crowd of LPE fac and groups - more here: law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau....
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Can never forget how much of what we’re going to see in the next four years was road-tested and normalized by the last four years.
Atlanta police have set up secret surveillance cameras outside of Stop Cop City activists' houses and gathering spots––and they refuse to answer any questions about the cameras
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ activists. Why are they there?
Cameras are hidden in unmarked boxes on utility poles in a move residents and advocates call ‘creepy’ and ‘corrosive’
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Can never forget how much of what we’re going to see in the next four years was road-tested and normalized by the last four years.
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a fantastic piece by @jpygold.bsky.social about how powerful universities like Harvard are laundering Republicans’ bad-faith talking points to look like good-faith concerns and harming their own mission in the process
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https://thehill.com/opinion/5141870-harvard-anti-zionist-policy-trump/
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February 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
a fantastic piece by @jpygold.bsky.social about how powerful universities like Harvard are laundering Republicans’ bad-faith talking points to look like good-faith concerns and harming their own mission in the process
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My latest is out in BU Law Rev. It argues that the tension inherent in counseling clients as a defender is a testament to the power of the counseling space and urges ways to turn that contradiction into a strength. Check it out and the thoughtful response from @ahoagfordjour.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My latest is out in BU Law Rev. It argues that the tension inherent in counseling clients as a defender is a testament to the power of the counseling space and urges ways to turn that contradiction into a strength. Check it out and the thoughtful response from @ahoagfordjour.bsky.social
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Check out my response, "Client Counseling in Post-Conviction," in @bulaw.bsky.social's Law Review, Vol. 104, engaging with @apetrigh.bsky.social's article "Counseling Oppression." www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
February 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Check out my response, "Client Counseling in Post-Conviction," in @bulaw.bsky.social's Law Review, Vol. 104, engaging with @apetrigh.bsky.social's article "Counseling Oppression." www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
Really grateful to the folks at inquest for letting me share some thoughts I've been noodling over about client counseling.
How might a defense lawyer counsel her client not just about an individual criminal case, but about the broader oppression of our system of mass incarceration?
Former public defender @apetrigh.bsky.social of @bulaw.bsky.social offers insights. https://inquest.org/decarceral-counseling/
Former public defender @apetrigh.bsky.social of @bulaw.bsky.social offers insights. https://inquest.org/decarceral-counseling/
Decarceral Counseling | Angelo Petrigh | INQUEST
Defense lawyers should be open to advising their clients about systemic oppression, laying bare the ways that mass incarceration ensnares.
inquest.org
January 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Really grateful to the folks at inquest for letting me share some thoughts I've been noodling over about client counseling.
Reposted by Angelo Petrigh
How might a defense lawyer counsel her client not just about an individual criminal case, but about the broader oppression of our system of mass incarceration?
Former public defender @apetrigh.bsky.social of @bulaw.bsky.social offers insights. https://inquest.org/decarceral-counseling/
Former public defender @apetrigh.bsky.social of @bulaw.bsky.social offers insights. https://inquest.org/decarceral-counseling/
Decarceral Counseling | Angelo Petrigh | INQUEST
Defense lawyers should be open to advising their clients about systemic oppression, laying bare the ways that mass incarceration ensnares.
inquest.org
January 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
How might a defense lawyer counsel her client not just about an individual criminal case, but about the broader oppression of our system of mass incarceration?
Former public defender @apetrigh.bsky.social of @bulaw.bsky.social offers insights. https://inquest.org/decarceral-counseling/
Former public defender @apetrigh.bsky.social of @bulaw.bsky.social offers insights. https://inquest.org/decarceral-counseling/
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A enduring myth about pretrial detention is that it’s necessary to ensure a person’s return to court or prevent harm to the community. But as longtime public defender Justine Olderman shows, the real purpose of jailing people ahead of trial is punishment.
As such, pretrial detention must be ended.
As such, pretrial detention must be ended.
No More Pretrial Punishment | Justine Olderman | INQUEST
In my many years as a public defender, I accepted the legal rationales for pretrial detention. But I can’t anymore.
inquest.org
January 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A enduring myth about pretrial detention is that it’s necessary to ensure a person’s return to court or prevent harm to the community. But as longtime public defender Justine Olderman shows, the real purpose of jailing people ahead of trial is punishment.
As such, pretrial detention must be ended.
As such, pretrial detention must be ended.
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Universal Public Defense, forthcoming HarvardCRCL, vol. 60 (2025). It asks how mandated UPD, where everyone is req’d to receive a state funded defender regardless of income, might change the criminal adjudication system. Comments & feedback welcome: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Universal Public Defense
<p><i>This Article introduces a provocative thought experiment: state funded counsel as a universal mandate for all people facing criminal charges. Said an
papers.ssrn.com
November 11, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Universal Public Defense, forthcoming HarvardCRCL, vol. 60 (2025). It asks how mandated UPD, where everyone is req’d to receive a state funded defender regardless of income, might change the criminal adjudication system. Comments & feedback welcome: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Always read Daniel Harawa, *especially* on the Second Amendment.
www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/betwee...
www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/betwee...
Between a Rock and a Gun
The Roberts Court has methodically expanded the scope of Second Amendment rights. But in its first Second Amendment case involving a criminal defendant, United States v. Rahimi, the Court blinked. Thi...
www.yalelawjournal.org
November 17, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Always read Daniel Harawa, *especially* on the Second Amendment.
www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/betwee...
www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/betwee...
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Hey, fellow CrimProfs! Settling in? In case you are brand new, please @ me to let me know if you want me to add you to the CrimProf starter pack. You can find your colleagues, they can find you, and everyone on here can find us more easily, together! go.bsky.app/UGVvbRP
November 17, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Hey, fellow CrimProfs! Settling in? In case you are brand new, please @ me to let me know if you want me to add you to the CrimProf starter pack. You can find your colleagues, they can find you, and everyone on here can find us more easily, together! go.bsky.app/UGVvbRP
Me every morning: People are inherently good. We will find community and grow and be strong together. There's no need to be dramatic or despair.
Me every evening: youtu.be/bHuAzN3_yrQ?...
Me every evening: youtu.be/bHuAzN3_yrQ?...
"The Earth is evil." | MELANCHOLIA | MUBI
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November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Me every morning: People are inherently good. We will find community and grow and be strong together. There's no need to be dramatic or despair.
Me every evening: youtu.be/bHuAzN3_yrQ?...
Me every evening: youtu.be/bHuAzN3_yrQ?...
As these grim announcements keep coming in, I'd like to bring over some wisdom by @atlsolfund.bsky.social from the other place
November 13, 2024 at 9:10 PM
As these grim announcements keep coming in, I'd like to bring over some wisdom by @atlsolfund.bsky.social from the other place
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Angelo Petrigh & @elizaorlins.bsky.social are spot on in this piece about the pressures on NY judges: releasing someone pretrial could get you attacked on the front page of the NY Post or reassigned to a worse post, but there’s no consequences for wrongly jailing someone pretrial.
Intimidating judges harms judicial independence
“No judge has ever lost their job setting bail on someone.” That is what a judge whispered one night to a new attorney during a busy arraignment shift. While shocking, the confession merely confirm…
www.nydailynews.com
March 15, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Angelo Petrigh & @elizaorlins.bsky.social are spot on in this piece about the pressures on NY judges: releasing someone pretrial could get you attacked on the front page of the NY Post or reassigned to a worse post, but there’s no consequences for wrongly jailing someone pretrial.