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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · 19h

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What is the Trial Penalty?

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · 19h

"The American criminal legal system must never be reduced to a tool of political vengeance. Federal charging decisions must be free from the appearance of a prosecution driven by partisan goals rather than a good-faith assessment of evidence and law."

Andy Birrell, @nacdl.org's President

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · 19h

"A political prosecution sets a dangerous and damning precedent for all Americans. The suspicious timing and clear pattern of targeting duly elected leaders proves that this does not add up to equal justice under law."

Lisa Wayne, @nacdl.org's Executive Director

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · 19h

Nation’s Defense Bar Condemns Apparent Politicization of Justice in James Indictment

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NACDL - News Release ~ James Indictment

Nation’s Defense Bar Condemns Apparent Politicization of Justice in James Indictment –Washington, D.C. (Oct. 10, 2025) –The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) u...

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Abolitionist Law Center @abolitionistlawcenter.org · 9d

Highly recommend this @nacdl.org 3-part webinar series & resources, which provide insight and recommendations on how to make improvements in competency to stand trial systems
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NACDL - Competency in Criminal Cases

Competency to stand trial is a fundamental safeguard in the criminal legal system, ensuring that individuals can understand the proceedings against them and participate in their own defense. Yet, the ...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 14d

September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.

The carceral system is a deadly place, and it's only gotten worse in recent decades. Prison is a mental health crisis in and of itself, and too many incarcerated people contemplate and/or die by suicide – even after release.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 22d

Andrew Birrell, President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (@nacdl.org), kicks off the 2025 White Collar Seminar at the Marriott Washington Georgetown on September 18, 2025. #NACDLWCDC

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NACDL President Andrew Birrell kicks of the White Collar Seminar at the Marriott Washington Georgetown in DC on September 18, 2025

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · Sep 4

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · Aug 26

3d Cir. holds that it does not violate the CFAA for employees to violate company computer-use policy (sharing passwords) where the company had authorized the access to the systems that they used.

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We add that the policy implications of NRA’s
arguments are “breathtaking.” Van Buren, 593 U.S. at 393.
Durenleau was at home and needed a password to complete an
urgent work assignment—one that, in the words of her CEO,
she needed to complete “TODAY!!!” App. 20. She couldn’t
retrieve the password, so she asked a colleague, Badaczewski,
to log in to NRA’s systems with her credentials and email a
helpful document. NRA asks us to make this a federal crime.
We refuse. Instead, we affirm the District Court’s rejection of
NRA’s claims that the employees “exceed[ed] authorized
access.” 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2).

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · Aug 25

🚨NEW: On any given day, nearly 32,000 kids are confined away from home – and most are in restrictive facilities that look & feel a lot like adult prisons and jails

Our new report gives the most up-to-date picture on youth confinement in the U.S. 🧵
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Pie chart showing that every day, 31,900 youth are held in facilities away from home as a result of juvenile or criminal legal system involvement

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · Aug 24

Important reporting by @wired.com

WIRED @wired.com · Aug 24

Phone searches at the US border have hit a record high, according to newly released figures from Customs and Border Protection.

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the…

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 23

Christopher Kinnison, who owns a one-man law firm in the central Louisiana, is "tired of losing.”

His clients are among the thousands of people who had been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after President Trump took office.

A last lifeline in ‘detention alley’

Most of immigration lawyer Christopher Kinnison’s clients in rural Louisiana are detainees. Every week, more calls come in, and Kinnison hasn’t been able to process what his days at work are becoming.

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Defense lawyers for needy clients feel squeeze after congressional funding dries up - CBS News share.google/hs4v1CBdixS1...

Defense lawyers for needy clients feel squeeze after congressional funding dries up

A program that pays court-appointed private lawyers is facing a financial crisis, since it ran out of money in early July.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Jul 17

Protecting your privacy doesn't have to be scary. Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense guides for step-by-step tutorials for keeping your data and devices secure.

Surveillance Self-Defense

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you a...

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · Jul 12

@nacdl.org 's 67th President Andy Birrell is sworn in.

stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · Jul 12

Final remarks of outgoing @nacdl.org President Chris Wellborn.

stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · Jun 29

Trump DHS links data for new citizenship tracking tool www.npr.org/2025/06/29/n...

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system

The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · Jun 22

It is like a captain planet episode come to life.

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · Jun 6

Nicole is also an @nacdl.org Board Member and President-Elect of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · Jun 6

“Mrs. Rojas remains unindicted for any crime. Meanwhile, she remains under exceedingly restrictive bond conditions, and she is prohibited from doing the lawful work as a midwife she was doing before these specious allegations against her were made.”

-Nicole Hochglaube, Rojas's Attorney

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · Jun 6

Maria Rojas was arrested in March, held for 10 days, and is now out on bail for the last three months, BUT SHE HAS NOT BEEN "FORMALLY" CHARGED WITH A CRIME.

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · Jun 6

“Rights only become meaningful through due process. You can’t do anything about an arrest unless you can challenge it.”

@nacdl.org Vice President C. Missy Owens

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stevenlogan.bsky.social @stevenlogan.bsky.social · May 25

That was a great blink and missed it Easter egg.

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ACLU @aclu.org · May 22

Montana became the first state to pass the Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, which requires the government to get a warrant before buying our data from data brokers.

This is a huge win for our right to privacy and we're urging Congress to follow Montana's lead.

New Montana law blocks the state from buying private data to skirt the Fourth Amendment

The Big Sky State becomes the first to close the "data broker loophole" allowing the government to get private information without a warrant.

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