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by Melinda Sarafa, NACDL Women in Criminal Defense Committee, Chip Warren
From death row to the streets of Harlem to Guantanamo Bay, women criminal defense attorneys speak in their own voices about the cases, the clients, and the community they built for one another. Defend(H)ers is a podcast featuring these attorneys in extended, in-depth conversations about their work.
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- 4 days ago1h 1m
Meghan Skelton & Premal Dharia
Premal Dharia grew up the child of Indian immigrants in Mingo County, West Virginia, a former coal mining town where her family's food, accents, and visible difference set them apart. A move to the Washington, D.C. suburbs in high school reframed everything: for the first time she saw how interconnected, resourced communities worked, and how disconnected her hometown had been by comparison. In this conversation with Meghan Skelton, she traces the line from that shift, through a jarring colleg...
- 1 weeks ago1h 4m
Sonya Pfeiffer & Denny LeBoeuf
Denny LeBoeuf spent 13 years bartending in the French Quarter before going to law school at Tulane, a path she returned to a decade later when a bar regular told her philosophy was a good prelude to a law degree. In this conversation with Sonya Pfeiffer, she traces that unlikely route into capital defense: a clinic case in her third year of law school that was already a homicide retrial, and a first capital case she took on straight out of school because, as the woman who recruited her put it...
- 2 weeks ago1h 0m
Molly Parmer & JoEllyn Jones
JoEllyn L. Jones grew up in Gouldtown, New Jersey, a South Jersey community she describes as one of the first free Black communities in the country. In this conversation with Molly Parmer, she talks about the neighbors and teachers who raised her there, a school curriculum centered on African American history, and the second-grade T-shirt that said she wanted to be a lawyer. On December 29, 1998, her brother, Robert "RJ" Jones, was shot and killed, six months before she graduated from high s...
- 3 weeks ago1h 6m
Melinda Sarafa & Teny Geragos
Teny Geragos has had a run that would be difficult to make up. She delivered the opening statement in the Sean Combs trial, cross-examined the complainant in Harvey Weinstein's retrial, represented the Alexander brothers, and gave birth to her second child along the way. She heard every verdict a jury can return — acquittal, conviction, mistrial. In this conversation with Melinda Sarafa, Teny goes back to the beginning: watching her father defend Scott Peterson when she was 14, and how the pr...
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From death row to the streets of Harlem to Guantanamo Bay, women criminal defense attorneys speak in their own voices about the cases, the clients, and the community they built for one another. Defend(H)ers is a podcast featuring these attorneys in extended, in-depth conversations about their work.
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