Angelo Petrigh
@APetrigh
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Clinical Associate Professor @BU_Law, previously public defender @bronxdefenders 🇵🇸 he/him
Joined July 2023
NEW EPISODE ALERT: https://t.co/CjTn3Gx4rs Thanks to all our special guests: Angelo Petrigh, Rachel York Colangelo, Noah Henderson, Rebecca Adelman and Max Adelman.
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My latest piece discusses a tension inherent in counseling clients as a defender and argues for the benefits of acknowledging that contradiction with clients. The editors were great to work with and solicited an amazing response from @AHoagFordjour on post-conviction counseling.
We're pleased to share our December 2024 book, available here: https://t.co/6hJCVRy7kZ Thank you to @APetrigh @AHoagFordjour @prgugliuzza @jjonasanderson @UFLawDean @cynthia_godsoe Ndjuoh MecChu, Arthur D. Hellman, and Lumen N. Mulligan, as well as BULR's own @alejan_droperez!
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Grateful to the folks at inquest for letting me share some thoughts about client counseling.
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How might a defense lawyer counsel her client not just about an individual criminal case, but about the broader oppression of our system of mass incarceration? Former public defender @APetrigh of @BU_Law offers insights.
inquest.org
Defense lawyers should be open to advising their clients about systemic oppression, laying bare the ways that mass incarceration ensnares.
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Thanks to the great team @nyulawreview for publishing Public Defense and an Abolitionist Ethic! https://t.co/YzcFyZCWze
nyulawreview.org
The American carceral state has grown exponentially over the last six decades, earning the United States a place of notoriety among the world’s leaders in incarceration. That unprecedented growth has...
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The president does not give us our rights. The courts won't protect them. Even the Constitution fails to safeguard our rights. It's ordinary people supporting and defending each other which has always protected our rights, and no election can take that power away.
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Check out @BULawReview's excellent symposium on law and expertise from 11/15-16 🔥 https://t.co/H1L8BMVdKV
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Last summer, SCOTUS issued a decision which renders a portion of NY's sentencing laws unconstitutional. The legislature must now take action, and the sensible path forward is to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences once and for all. I shared my thoughts with @NYLawJournal.
The 'Lopez' Decision Demands Legislative Action. The Marvin Mayfield Act Is the Solution.
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As a young lawyer I was shocked at how anti-intellectual judges were. And everywhere I’ve gone since, judges revel in flouting the law. You are often retaliated against for making a correct legal argument or citing a case. It’s a fear every lawyer for the indigent has, every day.
In my 16 years working in the law, a consistent thing in every city is this: judges engage in massive daily violations of the law that are the result of the need of the assembly line to mass-process poor people charged with low-level crimes.
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Today, in partnership with @PrisonersLegalS, @BU_Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic is proud to release this report revealing a disturbing pattern of abuse & mistreatment of #immigrant detainees at Plymouth Jail over the past 25 years. 1/🧵 full report 👇 https://t.co/qLZvbUCcbH
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Thank you @samanthaellimax and @Gothamist for covering our new report on New Yorkers' unprotected constitutional rights. This type of reporting is crucial for promoting transparency, democratic engagement, and oversight of the judiciary by the communities it serves.
Hundreds of NY judges allow evidence later deemed illegal, report finds https://t.co/dsvPlLGt48
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Thank you to @WBUR and @sdooling for covering our report on the more than 2 decades of abuses faced by detained #immigrants at Plymouth County Jail. https://t.co/ezWDSCDZDg
wbur.org
The report, issued by local advocates for prisoners and immigrants, reviewed records of complaints and violations at Plymouth County Correctional Facility that date as far back as 2002.
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Tried to briefly articulate the issue with prosecuting parents of school shooters.
bu.edu
“We’re not addressing the causes of school gun violence,” argues BU LAW clinical associate professor
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Black women (and other women, people of color, marginalized people) often hear that they need to work twice as hard to get half the credit. So, when they become successful, it is usually due to their efforts DESPITE being Black and woman, not because of it.
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Professor @JameliaNMorgan’s work has been field-defining. Her scholarship has been crucial to my ( and so many others’) understanding of disability law and policing. She’s also a wonderful person. The academy is so lucky to have her. A true gem! I am so angry.
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today's GOP-led hearing w/UCLA, Rutgers, Northwestern will generate a lot of media buzz. But lack so much substance. here's a 🧵w critical voices the press should uplift: faculty who care abt their students, institutions & colleagues find it all at: https://t.co/5t9qx8hv5d
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#BULawProf @APetrigh & @elizaorlins: "Transparent scrutiny is not a threat to judicial independence..real threat stems from an unrelenting onslaught of pressure to incarcerate by the powerful NYPD, media, politicians & court admin..pressure that judges are aware of & succumb to."
“No judge has ever lost their job setting bail on someone.” A NYC judge whispered that. To a public defender. Before depriving their destitute client of freedom. This happens every day. Judges are intimidated to throw poor people in cages. Thread on a history of intimidation:
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This should be a moment for tremendous consciousness building. New Yorkers witnessed that we have an army in our midst, the size of which serves no legitimate safety function and rather is only required to crush popular dissent that threatens the powers that be.
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Was great to be interviewed and share my thoughts on effective openings.
foxnews.com
Karen Read's lawyers and prosecutors sparred on day one of Read's murder trial, which has become a years-long spectacle, including an alleged cover-up
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