Angelo Petrigh
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Clinical Assoc. Prof. at BU Law's Crim Clinic, former public defender at the Bronx Defenders. he/him
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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
9 months ago
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Maria Bustillos
6 months ago
It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this
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Kumar Rao
8 months ago
Must-read: āLetter to Columbiaā written from political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil.
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
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A Letter to Columbia
<i>Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA </i>ā24<i>. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detaine...
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025/04/04/a-letter-to-columbia/
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Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25592020-letter-from-a-palestinian-political-prisoner-in-louisiana-march-18-2025/
8 months ago
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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How!
8 months ago
It took me 28 years to go from carceral feminist to abolitionist.
@saaarah.bsky.social
tells that story here.
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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 sheās pushing for the opposite.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/the-feminist-law-professor-who-wants-to-stop-arresting-people-for-domestic-violence
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!*
9 months ago
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...
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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."
https://hellgatenyc.com/discovery-reform-why-it-matters-and-who-wants-to-kill-it/
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Inquest
9 months ago
āPrisons were transformed into a wedge that encouraged white guards to see their class mobility as tied to the criminalization of the racialized poor.ā āOrisanmi Burton, author of āTip of the Spearā (
@ucpress.bsky.social
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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.
https://inquest.org/the-hidden-war-fueling-the-new-york-prison-guard-strike/
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Heba Gowayed ŁŲØŲ© Ų¬ŁŁŲÆ
9 months ago
Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein š
9 months ago
Hochulās 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.
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Jonathan Feingold
9 months ago
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
https://app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p4oinnucw8i4jmb8d7570kp
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Amy Kapczynski
9 months ago
LPE friends, big announcement! š„š„ 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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Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference - School of Law - University of Richmond
https://law.richmond.edu/faculty/InauguralLawandPoliticalEconomyAssociationConference.html
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Doghouse Reilly
9 months ago
Can never forget how much of what weāre going to see in the next four years was road-tested and normalized by the last four years.
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Corinne Blalock
9 months ago
a fantastic piece by
@jpygold.bsky.social
about how powerful universities like Harvard are laundering Republicansā 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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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
9 months ago
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Alexis Hoag-Fordjour
9 months ago
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/...
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Really grateful to the folks at inquest for letting me share some thoughts I've been noodling over about client counseling.
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10 months ago
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Inquest
10 months ago
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/
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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.
https://inquest.org/decarceral-counseling/
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Inquest
10 months ago
A enduring myth about pretrial detention is that itās necessary to ensure a personās 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.
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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 canāt anymore.
https://inquest.org/no-more-pretrial-punishment/
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Alexis Hoag-Fordjour
about 1 year ago
Universal Public Defense, forthcoming HarvardCRCL, vol. 60 (2025). It asks how mandated UPD, where everyone is reqād 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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Universal Public Defense
<p><i>This Article introduces aĀ provocative thought experiment: state funded counsel as a universal mandate for all people facing criminal charges. Said an
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5007431
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Jake Charles
about 1 year ago
Always read Daniel Harawa, *especially* on the Second Amendment.
www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/betwee...
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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...
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/between-a-rock-and-a-gun
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Maybell Romero
about 1 year ago
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
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Jordan Uhl
about 1 year ago
The bill that could allow Trump to kill non-profits is back.
theintercept.com/2024/11/15/n...
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House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits
A bill to give Donald Trump power to kill nonprofits is still supported by dozens of Democrats ā giving the GOP plenty of breathing room.
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/15/nonprofits-trump-bill-gop-republicans/
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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?...
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"The Earth is evil." | MELANCHOLIA | MUBI
YouTube video by MUBI
https://youtu.be/bHuAzN3_yrQ?si=dgPX9x7DPH35uttI
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As these grim announcements keep coming in, I'd like to bring over some wisdom by
@atlsolfund.bsky.social
from the other place
about 1 year ago
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Sam Feldman
over 1 year ago
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 thereās no consequences for wrongly jailing someone pretrial.
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Intimidating judges harms judicial independence
āNo judge has ever lost their job setting bail on someone.ā That is what a judge whispered one night to a new attorney during a busy arraignment shift. While shocking, the confession merely confirmā¦
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/15/intimidating-judges-harms-judicial-independence/
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