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Another Not Guilty!
In this Episode ANG favorite Ania walks her client on an attempted murder, carjacking, criminal threats, assault, and every other charge that a player in the original college admissions scandal can think of… Check out Another Not Guilty in the […]
The More Loving One
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a W.H. Auden poem. One of the lines in it goes: “If equal affection cannot be/ Let the more loving one be me.” I’m trying, you guys. I’m trying and it’s working. Not […]
New ANG Episode: The High Cost of Eating Meat
In this episode of Anotehr Not Guilty, police misconduct lawyer Greg Peacock discusses a civil rights lawsuit for false arrest and police brutality that he went to trial on and discovery of a rogue police department out in the desert […]
We Can’t Look Away
Editor's Note: This blog post will be more fully discussed in an NAPD webinar on September 26, 2019, from 12-1:30 eatern. You can register online at: https://www.publicdefenders.us/calendar_list.asp With the passage of a string of criminal abortion laws making headlines in the […]
Another Not Guilty!
Another Not Guilty released its latest episode on Sunday, September 1, 2019: “Psych Meds & Reefer & Beer, Oh My!” This episode is particularly amazing and entertaining. Take a listen to fellow public defender Peter recount his DUI […]
Somewhere in America
Somewhere in America a young person has just accepted an offer to work for a public defender office. She’s wondering whether she can handle the caseload that she has heard so much about. Somewhere in America a more experienced […]
A Tribute to Norm
Norman Lefstein, Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, died in Indianapolis, Indiana Thursday morning, August 28. Professor Lefstein had been suffering from glioblastoma. He was 82 years old. As […]
ANG Podcast Shares Another Not Guilty Story
In this exceptionally amazing Another Not Guilty (ANG) episode public defender Sully, a 30 year veteran, takes what appears to be an "open and shut" gun possession case for the prosecution and turns it upside by showing the police planted […]
Knox County Public Defender Community Law Office recognized nationally for model representation: holistic, client-centered, collaborative
The Knox County Public Defender’s Community Law Office (CLO) was awarded the prestigious 2019 American Bar Association Jefferson B. Fordham Law Office Accomplishment Award at the ABA Annual meeting in San Francisco, California on Friday August 9, 2019 for its […]
NAPD Fund for Justice Creative Advocacy Grant made in honor of Jeff Adachi and Norm Lefstein
The NAPD Fund for Justice, Inc. yearly provides one or more Creative Advocacy Grants. Grants are made in the spirit of the inductees in the Public Defense Hall of Fame, and are awarded to public defender organizations that seek to […]