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A summer of substantive work: DPD’s interns learn what it means to stand with clients

DPD’s 19 interns just wrapped up a 10-week program. Four of them talked to us about what made it meaningful — from arguing motions, to challenging search warrants, to going to trial. Most meaningful, they said, was working with clients, fighting on behalf of people ensnared in a harmful system.

September 6, 2022 in DPD News.

‘I’m home.’ Client is freed thanks to Blake decision and public defense

Nate Sanders had lost hope of an early release. Then the State Supreme Court invalidated the state’s felony drug law, and a DPD attorney sent him a letter. He’s now a free man.

August 26, 2021 in DPD News.
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