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Delaware Office of Defense Services

@DelawareODS

Official account for the DE Office of Defense Services — the Public Defender's Office and Office of Conflict Counsel. Zealous advocacy for the people.

Delaware, USA Katılım Aralık 2015
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Delaware Office of Defense Services
Delaware Office of Defense Services@DelawareODS·
Congratulations to those who passed the Delaware Bar! The ODS, ranked a Top Workplace by the News Journal for the last 11 years, is hiring. Hear from our attorneys about the impact you can make as a public defender and apply today at ods.delaware.gov/employment.
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NACDL
NACDL@NACDL·
Coley Harris of @DelawareODS offers reflections on 50 years of mass incarceration, the racial disparate impact of the CLS, and his office’s commitment & work to provide a path for successful reentry through expungements. #SecondChanceMonth #EndMassIncarceration
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Public Defenseless Podcast
Public Defenseless Podcast@PDefenselessPod·
To successfully combat this egregious secrecy, the @DelawareODS knew they could not simply fight for their clients in the four walls of the court room. To combat this systemic corruption, the office created a special litigation office that is currently trying to dismantle LEOBOR
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Delaware Law School
Delaware Law School@DELawSchool·
Reminder: tomorrow, March 17, the @DelawareODS, and the Delaware Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers join us to to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Gideon v. Wainwright at @DELawSchool.
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Delaware Office of Defense Services
Delaware Office of Defense Services@DelawareODS·
The events include: ➡ A Town Hall with the Chief Defender to discuss the state of public defense in Delaware ➡ A Street Law Program ➡ A Know Your Systems Training Come out and see us at the William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center in Wilmington, starting on March 14.
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Delaware Office of Defense Services
Delaware Office of Defense Services@DelawareODS·
Join us next month to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that enshrined a person's 6th Amendment right to counsel. We're planning a whole slate of community-based events to talk about the future of public defense in #netde
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Delaware Office of Defense Services@DelawareODS·
As Chief Defender Kevin O’Connell put it — “we are always one bad crime away from an impulse decision to bring it back.” We must ensure that the death penalty never returns and HB 70 is a positive step in the right direction.
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Delaware Office of Defense Services
Delaware Office of Defense Services@DelawareODS·
Over six years ago, public defenders with the ODS successfully argued in front of the DE Supreme Court that Delaware's death penalty was unconstitutional. This legislation is much-needed and a first step to ensure that the barbarism of capital punishment never returns to #netde
Delaware Online@delawareonline

The state has no one on death row. Similarly, the state no longer sentences people to death. So why are state legislators preparing to once again talk about the death penalty? delawareonline.com/story/news/loc…

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Partners for Justice
Partners for Justice@PFJ_USA·
What does it mean to "empower public defense"? Well, to us it means that making sure anyone who faces criminal accusation does so with support, access to interdisciplinary help, and, most importantly, a team who *listens*. Here are a few examples from the recent days:
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Innocence Project Delaware
Innocence Project Delaware@innocencede·
“In 2021, Ilinois and Oregon passed laws that ban police from lying to children and adolescents brought in for interrogation. In 2022, similar bills were passed by state legislatures in California, Utah, and Delaware.” time.com/6241531/police…
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