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Hunter Parnell 2/19/25 Hunter Parnell 2/19/25

329 | Prosecutorial Reform and the Myth of Individualized Enforcement w/Justin Murray

How Progressive Prosecutors are exercising Discretion in similar but different ways to Traditional Prosecutors w/Justin Murray

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Hunter Parnell 2/19/25 Hunter Parnell 2/19/25

328 | How the Laken Riley Act Could Get Innocent People Sent to Guantanamo Bay w/Ann Block and Nithya Nathan-Pineau

The terrible erosion of Due Process at the intersection of Criminal and Immigration Law

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Hunter Parnell 2/11/25 Hunter Parnell 2/11/25

327 | Should we Have Universal Public Defense w/Alexis Hoag-Fordjour

Should we Have Universal Public Defense? w/Alexis Hoag Fordjour

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Hunter Parnell 2/6/25 Hunter Parnell 2/6/25

326 | How Cuyahoga County Jail Keeps Prisoners from their Family and Records their Conversations w/Nikki Baszynski

How the Cuyahoga County Jail is Keeping People from Their Families w/Nikki Baszynski

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Hunter Parnell 2/4/25 Hunter Parnell 2/4/25

325 | Is Kansas Public Defense on the Verge of a Crisis? w/Heather Cessna

Is the Kansas Public Defense System on the Verge of Collapsing? w/Heather Cessna

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Hunter Parnell 1/30/25 Hunter Parnell 1/30/25

324 | The Fight to End Youth Shackling and Limit Mass Surveillance in Virginia w/Rob Poggenklass and Bryan Kennedy

How Justice Forward Virginia is Trying to Stave Off Tough on Crime Policies w/Rob Poggenklass and Bryan Kennedy

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Hunter Parnell 1/28/25 Hunter Parnell 1/28/25

323 | How One Inconsistent Eye Witness Led to the Wrongful Conviction of Ivery Dorsey w/Kerrie Liang

How a Single Inconsistent Eye Witness Lead to the Wrongful Conviction of Ivery Dorsey w/Kerrie Liang

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Hunter Parnell 1/23/25 Hunter Parnell 1/23/25

322 | The Impact of and the Resistance to Mass Deportation Policies w/Hans Meyer and Holly Lucas

How Colorado has and will Continue to Resist Mass Deportation w/Hans Meyer and Holly Lucas

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Hunter Parnell 1/22/25 Hunter Parnell 1/22/25

321 | How Virginia Prison Officials Lied About Red Onion Prisoner Lighting Themselves on Fire w/Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

How Virginia DOC officials are lying about what is happening in Red Onion Prison w/Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

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Hunter Parnell 1/21/25 Hunter Parnell 1/21/25

320 | Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons w/Brittany Friedman

What the History of the Black Guerilla Family tells us about our Prison System w/Brittany Freidman

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Hunter Parnell 1/16/25 Hunter Parnell 1/16/25

319 | How a Petty Theft Could get you 180 Days in Jail in Rifle Municipal Court w/Scott Troxell

How Rifle Municipal Court Gave People 18x Harsher Penalties than they Could get in State Court w/Scott Troxell

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Hunter Parnell 1/16/25 Hunter Parnell 1/16/25

318 | How to Fight and Abolish the Death Penalty Outside of the Courtroom w/Abraham Bonowitz

Building the Media Campaign and Political Coalitions Outside of the Court Room that are Needed to Abolish the Death Penalty w/Abraham Bonowitz

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Hunter Parnell 1/14/25 Hunter Parnell 1/14/25

317 | How Pueblo Municipal Court Used Contempt of Court to Send People to Jail for Years w/Keri Williams

How a person goes to municipal court in Pueblo, Colorado and gets years in jail w/Keri Williams

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Hunter Parnell 1/14/25 Hunter Parnell 1/14/25

316 | The Everyday Cruelty in Westminster Municipal Court w/Alison Gordon

The Everyday Cruelty in the Westminster Colorado Municipal Court w/Alison Gordon

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Hunter Parnell 1/7/25 Hunter Parnell 1/7/25

315 | How People Are Denied the Right to Counsel in Grand Junction Municipal Court w/Tristan Gorman and Rebecca Wallace

The Terrible State of Colorado Municipal Courts, Part 1: the denial of counsel in Grand Junction Municipal Courts w/Rebecca Wallace and Tristan Gorman

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Hunter Parnell 1/5/25 Hunter Parnell 1/5/25

314 | The Policies Making Colorado More "Tough on Crime" w/Tristan Gorman and Rebecca Wallace

How the Colorado Criminal Legal System is Made More and More Punitive w/Rebecca Wallace and Tristan Gorman

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Hunter Parnell 12/19/24 Hunter Parnell 12/19/24

313 | How Marsy's Law is Undermining the Criminal Legal System w/Ráchael Powers

The clash between victim’s rights and the rights of criminal defendants w/Ráchael Powers

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Hunter Parnell 12/17/24 Hunter Parnell 12/17/24

312 | How to Create More Opportunities to Fight the Government's Case Pre-Trial w/Chesa Boudin and Eric Fish

How to increase chances to fight the government’s case pre trial w/Chesa Boudin and Eric Fish

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Disclaimer: Hunter Parnell hosts Public Defenseless in his personal capacity. The views expressed by the host and guests are their own and do not represent the Aurora Municipal Public Defender or any guest's employer. Nothing on this show is legal advice, and listening does not create an attorney-client relationship. If you are facing criminal charges, talk to a lawyer.

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