Waqar Vick Rehman
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public defender (allegedly) ; slowly working towards public service loan forgiveness ; runner ; soccer fan ; bicycles over cars
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT.......I PASSED THE BAR EXAM!
I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS BECAUSE THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!
I AM A PUBLIC DEFENDER!
STARTED FROM GRADUATING IN THE BOTTOM QUARTER OF MY LAW SCHOOL CLASS AND NOW I'M HERE!
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A judge in Alabama issued a decree to release all people in jails with bonds of $5K or less and got a lot of pushback. Here is a part of his explanation, which is profound and telling.
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It's been days and I still can't get over how a judge set a *$1 million* bond on a woman in Georgia who had cotton candy that was alleged to have been meth and sat in jail for three months before a test finally revealed that the cotton candy was not meth.
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Debate star in high school.
Magna cum laude at Harvard.
Cum laude at Harvard Law School.
Editor of Harvard Law Review.
Clerk to Stephen Breyer.
Federal public defender.
U.S. District Court Judge.
Judge on D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
bUt whAT's yOUr LSAT scOOOre?!?
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The Jewish community stood w/ Muslims when there was a call for a Muslim Ban. Today, I, along with other Muslims, stand w/ the Jewish community. We're seeing synagogues, mosques, and other houses of worship at risk. Gotta stand together.
#StopTheHate
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Law school is a quarter-million dollar investment made so that you can upgrade your manner of arguing from “I think that...” to “My understanding is that...”
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*Innocent Black Man is Killed*
Media: Did he...have a marijuana conviction from 2008?!?
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When I was a child, I was a victim of severe child abuse. This set my progress through life back my many years. With the support of altruistic friends, I was able to make it to law school and I've recently accepted an offer to be a public defender after graduating. I am grateful.
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One of the most annoying things for an attorney is Word automatically changing "(c)" to the copyright symbol.
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People underestimate how devastating a stint in jail can be even when charges are dropped. This mother spent a week in jail and lost her job and children. The charges were then dropped b/c of mistaken identity.
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Each rewatching of My Cousin Vinny should count towards an attorney's CLE credits.
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Law School: Argue the law and use reasoning within a legal framework to secure your client's outcome. All that matters is the law.
Reality: I wonder what mood judges will be in the day after Christmas.
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reading the words of the fourth amendment vs reading the case law on the fourth amendment
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I’ve entered fatherhood. This is my son, whose name is Zidane Issa Rehman.
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Read the first sentence.
Then read how the Fifth Circuit ruled.
Then join me in cursing qualified immunity.
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The McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit is not an analog to frivolous lawsuits.
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Any public defender can testify that the criminalization of any conduct will always disproportionately affect the poor. This includes abortion.
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Ten years is a *long* fucking time for public service loan forgiveness.
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Law schools would do well to recognize that there are some students who come from families which include no lawyers, which come from social circles that do not include lawyers, which come from classes that could benefit from legal representation if they could afford it.
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Law School Casebook:
NEW: $400.00
USED: $395.00
RENTAL: $390.00
BUYBACK VALUE: $2.00
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It’s not the kids who argue a lot who need to be encouraged to go to law school
It’s the kids who’ll learn a board game and then argue over the meaning of the rules who should be encouraged to go to law school
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A lot of lawyers have done a lot of things this past week that help me with my insecurities as an attorney.
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Bar examiners be like “I know a place” then take you to a packed convention center in the middle of a global pandemic.
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The way Kamala Harris says "I'm a prosecutor" here makes it seem as if the deprivation of the rights of people who have been convicted of crimes is a core aspect of being a prosecutor.
It is not. The prosecutor should seek justice.
Clean-up in the Town Hall Aisle: A day after saying she welcomed a “conversation” about inmates voting in jail,
@KamalaHarris
said today: “Do I think that people who commit murder, people who are terrorists should be deprived of their rights? Yeah, I do. I’m a prosecutor.”
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The issue with Lori Loughlin's sentence is not its relatively short length. The issue is whether that leniency can be extended to people who are not as privileged and are brought through the punishment system.
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I have already formed my impression of Amazon's next CEO.
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People often ask why I would want to legally represent society’s downtrodden and most-forgotten...
...and frankly, it’s because of my own personal experience of being a member of the downtrodden and most-forgotten that I want to do this.
Everyone deserves representation.
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Unpopular Opinion: Any legislation passed in response to this week's events will have dire consequences for marginalized groups. We don't need a repeat of The PATRIOT Act. And there are other ways to address the threat from these zealous Trump supporters.
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R.I.P. to the brief 2-week moment in which we heard the most pro-defendant, pro-rights-of-the-accused, pro-due-process, and most fervent innocent-until-proven-guilty rhetoric we have ever heard coming from the government.
It was a good run.
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@Nataliew1020
I am so sorry. My son was born with a cleft palate and he is due for surgery in a few months. His experience opened up my eyes to facial differences in children. Despite these differences, our children are just as worthy of love as anyone else.
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This, from a recent Washington Post interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, is so on point.
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Being an attorney is having your self esteem swing back and forth from the widest ranges on the esteem scale possible.
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If you are an attorney and are dating someone who is not an attorney and you are watching a dramatic TV/movie trial scene with them and are not constantly interrupting them to point out all of the mistakes in the scene, you might not be worthy of the profession.
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Been watching The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix and realized that one of the most unrealistic aspects of TV portrayals of trials is that witnesses almost always show up to court on TV.
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Make law school two years of classes plus one year of a paid internship.
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If you are too broke to take a post-bar exam trip, just want to let you know that I was, too.
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There are some first generation law students who do not have a single lawyer in their respective families and who are genuinely proud to be the first attorney.
They do not need to hear the discouragement of how grueling it is to be an attorney.
Let them break the mold.
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I was going to begin my bar exam application tonight and then noticed that the fee is $650.00 so now I am just going to stare in my bathroom mirror and call for Bloody Mary and then try again tomorrow night.
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If a court system can suspend misdemeanor trials for longer than a year, that might be a sign that a significant number of those cases can be disposed of.
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Med Schools: Let's get our senior students to graduation ASAP and send them out to combat this crisis.
Law Schools: Let's have a long debate on whether the traditional barriers to practice shall remain in place.
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There is such a strong nexus between what Batman does and what Gotham’s police department does that Batman should be considered a state actor and should therefore be held liable for any civil rights violations carried out in the course of defending Gotham from villains.
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People hate on public defenders but I don't know a single public defender who went into their career because they couldn't find some "high profile" legal career. They went into the work because they're passionate about it & want to hold The State to its burden in criminal cases.
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The salary of an attorney is in no way indicative of how many hours that attorney works.
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This story just fills me with an excessive amount of rage. And let me tell you...the punitive mindset that allowed a 15-year-old to be sentenced to life without parole continues to exist to this day.
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Can't underscore how much of a big deal this is.
"Philadelphia on Thursday approved groundbreaking legislation that will bar its police officers from pulling over drivers for low-level motor vehicle offenses like broken taillights."
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Seeing both a Black man killed by law enforcement in my city and the cementing of a high court that will defer to law enforcement all in one night was too much.
#WalterWallaceJr
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As a public defender, seeing police reports that begin with minor traffic infractions is extremely routine. These are infractions for traffic code violations that are selectively enforced.
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Some have taken issue with my decision to disclose my class rank in law school. Real issues came up during law school that prevented me from a higher rank. But I’m here to tell law students that you can rise above your rank. For the most part, grades will not define your career.
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After the LSAT fee, law school application fees, tuition money, money for books, the MPRE fee, the bar exam fee (don't forget the additional fee to use the laptop to take the exam!), I'm hoping this *filing fee* to the bar is the last damn thing I have to pay to be an attorney.
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What kind of a prosecutor goes forward on charges that call for a *mandatory* sentence of 110 years in a case in which a truck driver who lost control of his truck unintentionally caused the death of four people?
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The transition from graduating from law school into going into practice is an education in how much law school did not teach you.
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If law schools are invested in their graduates’ bar exam pass rates, then the last semester of law school should be a semester-long bar exam prep course paid for by tuition and should end with the bar exam itself.
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College Admissions Essays in 2023:
"I came from privilege. It was all I knew. But this is a story of how staying in lockdown during
#COVID19
taught me adversity and brought me in proximity to the underclass of this country, despite remaining in my parents' penthouse..."
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Friend: So where do you wanna get dinner?
Attorney: I’m an attorney who made 1,217 decisions today…I have decision fatigue…you choose.
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Each law school in the county should have a public defense clinic.
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I want the fanbase for Justice Sotomayor to be at least as large as the fanbase that has built up for Justice Ginsburg.
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Blessing the cursed timeline with this video of my son doing his thing...
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@FBI
Thinking of how a brown man of Pakistani descent might be viewed by the FBI if he starts doing pushups and setups.
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The thing about public defenders is that you can reach out to any public defender in the country if your client has an open case in their jurisdiction and they will undoubtedly help you.
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Anyone else do the depressing routine of waking up, scrolling through your phone in dread for an hour in bed, then get up to start whatever the day can be?
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someone connect me with justice alito so i can ask him where in the text he finds qualified immunity
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If jails and prisons won’t allow in-person visits because of the coronavirus, then there should be no charge for phone calls...
...there should have been no charge for phone calls to begin with, but this should be a start.
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For all lawyers working in public interest fields, I have this to say:
There is a tremendous amount you can learn from social workers working with the same clientele you are working with.
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CDC guidelines allow for all hearsay to be admissible at trial.
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Today is the 57th anniversary of Gideon v Wainwright, the Supreme Court decision providing the right to an attorney if a person cannot afford one in a criminal case. And throughout the country, public defenders are still working to advocate for clients during a pandemic.
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I want and deserve loan forgiveness so that I can continue working as a public defender with just one stressor taken away from me.
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Understanding Rules of Evidence in a law school course and understanding them in a hearing in which testimony is being given are two different beasts.
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Attorneys who do direct services (legal aid, public defense, immigration, etc.) can provide as much to the legal discourse as those who do impact litigation.
Just my unpopular opinion...
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Interesting case. A homeless person who builds his home with cardboard boxes each night allegedly stabbed a student who kicked the structure and is using the castle doctrine as a defense. Under the doctrine, a person can protect a home with deadly force.
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When I was a 2L in law school, I thought that when I would be a 3L on the verge of graduating, I’d definitely be able to tweet out some self-care tips for law students.
Now that I am here......I have nothing for you all.
I’m sorry.......figure it out or something.
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Law student: Professor cold-called me last class. Ain’t no way she’s gonna call on me today.
Law Professor:
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Kim Kardashian…influencer, superstar, against prosecutorial overreach.
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Can you make a phone call?
Right now?
Without it being recorded & stored in digital permanence?
Without the person on the other end being charged a fee?
Without some private company interrupting to say you have a minute left?
Yes?
Then your quarantine isn’t like jail.
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tax credits for parents who never throw a gender reveal party
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One thing I didn’t realize about Batson v. Kentucky, the case that challenged discriminatory peremptory strikes, is that it was James Batson, the appellant, himself who instructed his defense attorney to object to the prosecutor striking the only three Black jurors from the pool.
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Graduating from law school vs. right after the bar exam.
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Many parents will spend tomorrow in pretrial detention.
This is also family separation.
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If you are an attorney, never wait until the day of a court hearing to print or to copy or to scan something…the court gods will ensure that the technology will fail on the day of.
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Legal Writing is hard.
From high school up until the year I started law school, I was always told by fellow students and teachers and professors that I was a great writer.
But this Legal Writing thing is hard AF.
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If you are ever arrested and the police offer you a cigarette, do not take it.
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Watching this new Netflix documentary series on 9/11 and I have to say this: Barbara Lee’s singular, lone vote against the Authorization for Use of Military Force remains one of the most courageous, principled acts of honor and strength in the political history of this country.
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A prolific understanding of Criminal Procedure is found in 90s and early 2000s hip-hop.
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I am wholeheartedly against the death penalty no matter who the penalty has been leveled against.
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Westlaw is back up.
Unfortunately, all of the bad case law in my jurisdiction continues to remain bad.
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Should the opportunity arise, it would be nice for Joe Biden to nominate Bryan Stevenson to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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I wish Prominent Leftists/Democratic Socialist of America-types cared as much about public defenders as they do about progressive prosecutors.
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