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lightmangibson.bsky.social
I want to go on record as of today, saying thank goodness there are lawyers working so hard to protect the innocent—us!! Thank you, @marcelias.bsky.social #publicdefenders
December 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
lapubdefunion.bsky.social
LA’s #publicdefenders came together for a well-deserved night of celebration and connection. We’re grateful for the incredible members of Local 148 and proud to serve this amazing community of 10 million Angelenos!
December 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
andreanagai.bsky.social
Where are my #PublicDefenders of the desert?
In the rain? In the snow?
Where are my Public Defenders on the road?
On a subway? On the go?
Where are the defenders of the Rockies?
Of the plains? Of the Great Lakes?
How about "Public Defender in The Making"!
Change the template; Raise the stakes.
A four panel poster illustrating the four steps taken in the legal process of a public defender. Each panel outline integrates the word that the image represents. Top left: Investigate, shows a woman and her partner taking pictures of evidence. Top Right: Exonerate, shows a paralegal man sitting at his desk very late at night and carefully watching police footage while taking notes. Bottom left: Litigate, shows a public defender mid litigation with a witness from a police officer in a courtroom in front of a jury. Bottom right: Mitigate, shows a social worker listening carefully through glass and a telephone to an incarcerated teenager and taking notes. A female public defender in a green suit and holding a planner walks away from the Courthouse in Compton, California. The Martin Luther King Memorial stands in the courtyard behind her. At the top of the image a title reads: Public Defender in Action. A female public defender in a green suit with a black briefcase stands in front of a drawing of the back of the courthouse in Long Beach, California. At the top of the image a title reads: Public Defender in Action. The subtitle below it reads: In the case of the surprise witness. A female public defender in a red blazer and flowing neck scarf walks away from the federal courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio while holding a binder and her glasses. The text at the top reads: First Assistant Public Defender in action. The subtitle below it reads: Exciting, new trailblazer issue.
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
sancho.bsky.social
My favorite part of the video that SHOULD hit home for most people, even if you are discounting the security concerns #PublicDefenders
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
nohsal.blacksky.app
C'mon now! #Chicago #SouthSide #SouthSideChi #CookCounty #PublicDefenders
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
stroligus.bsky.social
www.lawyeroyer.com/p/public-def...

#publicdefenders #publicdefendersofbluesky
Public Defenders Will Save Us
With the rule of law in our country under siege, public defenders are uniquely equipped to fight back. (Excerpts from the 2025 David H. Bodiker Lecture on Criminal Justice.)
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November 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
justinobrooks.bsky.social
#SixthAmendment #RightToCounsel #IndigentDefense #JusticeForAll #CJA #PublicDefenders #Constitution
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
stroligus.bsky.social
#publicdefenders
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Oct 30
A former Coast Guard lieutenant who called for President Trump’s assassination on social media was acquitted by a federal jury after his attorneys argued the posts were protected speech under the First Amendment.
Jury acquits Virginia man who called for Trump’s assassination
“I would do it. I would take the fall to save America. Too bad I don’t have the operational skills to pull it off,” Stinson wrote in one post.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
1234mimijones.bsky.social
Sadly, it’s the Wheelin’’&Dealin’ btwn PublicDefenders & Prosecutors that allows Perpetrators of ManyHeinous&DeadlyCrimes to GetOutOfJail all but Free & they’re able to ReAffect the GenPub w their AntiSocialBehaviors & Assaults! Acosta Owes Every EpsteinVictim frm 2009, onwards more than a🤬Apology!
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
co2expeller.bsky.social
#publicdefenders
October 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
besustained.bsky.social
We have extended the deadline for #publicdefenders to sign up for the National Public Defense Well-Being Study! 📣 Check out our website in our bio for more info and to register
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
gaultcenter.bsky.social
We are so grateful to Raj Jayadev, author of Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration, for sharing his beautiful spirit and wisdom with our community at Summit! #TGCSummit2025 #SummitBeehives #ProtectYourPeople #PublicDefenders
October 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
slkollmann.bsky.social
I can't wait for the next installment of my new favorite soap opera, which might drop on Monday

(eternally grateful to people who send me things I have fun reading)
r/publicdefenders u/anarchophysicist. PD. 1d Join Looks like the DA I'm going to trial with tomorrow used Al to write her MILs bc so far every case citation is FAKE. I am so excited for court in the morning Final update until Monday is below. I need a nap. Edit 2: I sent an email 5 mins before court that simply said "Regarding your filed motions, it appears none of your cited authority actually exists." The DA then just no-showed. Someone else had to make the appearance. The DA is now ordered present at 1pm to explain herself. "Let your colleague know we can always have her brought here if she can't get here on her own." was the quote of the day so far. But unfortunately my client attacked a guard at the jail and was not transported so everything is a total shit show at the moment. Edit 3: It's so much worse than it originally seemed. Found out she's straight up lied to the court about her communications with LEA's regarding the case. Edit 4: SHE CAN'T BE PRESENT AT 1PM BECAUSE SHE IS BEING SANCTIONED FOR MISREPRESENTATION IN ANOTHER MATTER AT THAT TIME. I am losing my mind. How is this real? She's not a new attorney. Back at 2pm. Edit 5, Final update before Monday (prob): I am in the trial court with 3 other trials and the judge is absolutely livid. The judge ordered the client released from custody for reasons too complicated to get into and the DA who filed the Al MILS tried to get the court to order me personally to transport him next week based the same case law I already told her was fake. She quoted the exact same language that didn't exist and said "The courts have held" but never cited anything. I asked for a citation and she said she didn't have one right now. The judge literally yelled "ENOUGH!" and ordered everyone present Monday afternoon. She wants new briefing from me on, in her words, "What the fk is even happening here". The DA is not permitted to amend her filed MILs but may file a supplement: "I think we'd all like to hear you argue exactly what you cited in your motions Miss Da." The development that has kicked all this up a notch is that deputies are telling us there was no fight at the jail. No one can figure out where that came from. The DA told the sheriffs he wouldn't need to be transported today if he wasn't cooperative. When they woke him up for transport he was groggy and slow, so they decided that meant he was refusing to go to court. There is at least one deputy who said he tried to tell both the DA and his boss that this was wrong and he needed to go to court but they didn't listen. I wish I could give everyone a run down of the exact legal issues but I'm changing details to preserve some degree of anonymity for both myself and the client.
September 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
drsarteschi.bsky.social
Interesting conversation: Have any of you ever defended a sovereign citizen?https://www.reddit.com/r/publicdefenders/comments/1mqrnmj/have_any_of_you_ever_defended_a_sovereign_citizen/
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August 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
disaster-human.bsky.social
@npr.org had some good episodes for #GreySky last week. #DisasterScience #NewOrleans #PublicDefenders #Systems #Podcasts #ConsiderThis
Hurricane Katrina helped change New Orleans' public defender system : Consider This from NPR
In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse. The court system collapsed in the aftermath of the storm.Katrina caused horri...
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August 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
nmackend.bsky.social
Solidarity with striking public defenders in NYC! They’re demanding a more manageable case load and pushing back against salary freezes. ✊ #UAW #NYLAG #publicdefenders
A photo of a picket line
July 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
indactonma.bsky.social
*fund our #publicdefenders 😊
July 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
indactonma.bsky.social
We need to find our #publicdefenders
#mapoli Do Better.
Thank you @maradolan.bsky.social for speaking up!
maradolan.bsky.social Mara Dolan @maradolan.bsky.social · Jul 18
Over 3,000 innocent people do not have a court-appointed attorney. Jennifer O’Brien and I joined @wgbh.org’s Jim Braude and Margery Eagan to talk about the latest on the bar advocate work stoppage, how hard it is, and why we are hopeful. #mapoli #publicdefender

youtu.be/6n5eu7UDLoM?...
Jim Braude and Margery Eagan, Boston Public Radio on GBH
YouTube video by Mara Dolan for Governor's Council
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July 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
lapubdefunion.bsky.social
California is failing to provide enough investigators for #publicdefenders. Nearly half of counties have none at all! This puts innocent people at risk and stacks the system against those with fewer resources. Real justice needs real resources.

calmatters.org/investigatio...
July 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social
Today on r/publicdefenders, aka the burnout capital of indigent defense—an ode to the virtues of caging humans if one wishes to later keep humans out of cages for a living.

Aspiring PDs, never take advice from these people.
July 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social
I’m beginning to think the r/publicdefenders subreddit is actually psy ops for Big Prosecution.
June 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
ruthdusseault.bsky.social
#wrencollective #publicdefenders #justice #jurisprudence localnewsmatters.org/2025/05/09/f...
Fighting for fairness: Public defender groups call for funding for indigent defense cases - Local News Matters
DUE PROCESS UNDER THE LAW is not the same for everyone. That was the message delivered in a public webinar this week, where public defenders spoke in
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May 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
lapubdefunion.bsky.social
Today marks four years since Local 148 was formed to fight for our members, our clients, and the people of Los Angeles. As we head into MOU negotiations this summer, we remain as fierce and united as ever. #UnionStrong #publicdefenders
May 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
bcwbcw.bsky.social
The “We❤️PublicDefenders” group never says anything bad about public defenders because the group has no members and makes no postings.
April 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
smithinhell.bsky.social
This contrasts sharply with the police’s “We❤️PublicDefenders” group chat.
April 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM