Oct 14, 2024
Where we are born, how many times we were forced to relocate, and the kinds of things happening, or not happening, in our communities, our schools and other institutions in those locations are all important to give context to a client's life and choices.
But how do we tell those stories at sentencing?
Thankfully,...
Aug 19, 2024
It’s a gloomy night in Oklahoma City. I’m holed up in a hotel working on a capital case. But I’m in a dark place. Last week I saw a terrible injustice occur in a matter in which I was involved as a consultant. The lawyers did a fantastic job of making their case for a non-custodial sentence, but all of their...
Apr 3, 2023
We began this conversation in Ep.5, “Understanding Autism at Sentencing”. But the topic is so important, and so close to my heart and the work that I do, it’s time to dig in deeper.
In the first of a two-part episode, we talk with the nation’s premiere criminal defense attorney when it comes to representing...
Oct 24, 2022
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Lawyers have everything to learn from great stories on the screen, on the page, or on the stage. Legal Writing Professor Christina Frohock knows this well, as her latest law review article, Legal Fiction: Reading Lolita as a...
May 24, 2022
The powers-that-be would like to pretend that Covid is over, the prisons are safe, and Compassionate Release is no longer necessary. This is simply not the case.
Set for sentencing is a brand new podcast. Officially launches end of the month. But some topics are just too timely to wait for the official release. ...