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NAPD’s First Convening on Public Defense Independence is Coming this Month For the first time in NAPD’s history, we are hosting a convening dedicated entirely
The need for defender social workers has been increasingly recognized nationally,[1] but I discovered recently that in Washington State, 59 per cent of the counties
The 2023 National Public Defense Workload Study (NPDWS) produced evidence-based standards to help public defense providers determine whether they have enough attorneys to provide each
By Lindsay Bendell, PhD Student & LCSW If I could sum up my feelings returning home from Changemakers in one word, it would be ‘energized’.
By Greg Mermelstein, Deputy Director & General Counsel, Missouri Public Defender A nonprofit organization has standing to bring a Sec. 1983 suit to enjoin
By Greg Mermelstein, Deputy Director & General Counsel, Missouri Public Defender Police had reasonable suspicion to make an investigatory stop of a juvenile driver
