Modern criminal cases involve tons of digital evidence. Far too many defense attorneys just don’t have the resources to keep up with it all.

CA needs to invest in public defense so that these attorneys have the investigative staff they need and their clients get the defense that they deserve.

In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim
directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

California’s public defense system is in crisis. “Flat-fee” contracts are a big reason why. A new report sheds light on how these agreements privatize indigent defense and lead to worse representation and higher incarceration around the state.

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.

Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

Today is the 62nd anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright guaranteeing the right-to-counsel. That right is elusive in many places. Lawyers have high caseloads and are underfunded. Its a crisis, and legislators continue criminalizing more actions and people. Fund public defense. #Gideonday

Check out this podcast with our amazing Nikki Baszynski talking about how jails restrict the right to counsel with their visitation rules

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Sadly, at least two states (FL & TX) have made it unlawful for cities to do so.

Very very interesting. New piece by the @nytimes.com: “For Decades, Installing E.V. Chargers Didn’t Pay Off for Retailers. Now It Does.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...

It’s time to stop letting corporate interests try to bully us out of what’s best for our wallets, health, and future:

#climate #MApoli #cleanenergy