Profile: hunter.parnell

Originally from Broomfield Colorado, I attended the United States Air Force Academy. While at USAFA, I played baseball and was a member of the United States Air Force Parachute Demonstration team, the Wings of Blue. All the while, I spent two years overseeing the implementation and operation of the cadet Honor Code for 1,000 cadets in my Junior and Senior years. In the spring of 2018, I graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Legal Studies after competing on the Legal Studies Nationally Ranked Moot Court Team. My whole life, I saw firsthand how the criminal justice system treated people as cases to be dealt with quickly instead of as human beings with unique needs. The passion and interest in our justice system was ever present because of my upbringing, but following the killing of George Floyd, I wanted to help improve our justice system in some fashion but did not know where to start. While I realized that people of all walks of life, of all political backgrounds care about justice and care about fairness, people were not taking action because they simply did not know where to start. So, I took the first step towards trying to solve any problem— try to understand it. After a year plus of research and writing, I realized sharing this information, speaking with stakeholders, and helping people join me in my quests for reform was what I wanted to do, and thus, Public Defenseless was born.

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• Join Date: 41/41/2022 61:00:00
• Last on: 09/26/2023 14:07:29
• Articles posted by this author:
• 168: Alaska's Brief Moment of Criminal Justice Reform and their Turn to Tough on Crime Policies w/Mike Garvey and Megan Edge
• A New Database Providing Public Defenders the Latest Social Science Data for Court w/Eve Primus
• Rebuilding the New York Legal Aid Society's Union Strength w/Jane Fox
• How the Deck is Heavily Stacked Against Federal Public Defenders w/Colin Prince and Jay McEntire
• Will a New Data Driven Approach Be the Key to the Future for Montana Public Defense w/Brett Schandelson
• "Why Would You Even Ask That?" The Absurdity of America's Youth Justice System w/Iliana Pujols
• The Fulton County Jail, Cop City, and the Deafening Silence of the Georgia Public Defense Council w/Devin Franklin
• How the Civil Rights Corps is Uncovering and Challenging Prosecutorial Misconduct w/Peter Santina
• 163: Imagining Something Better than Washington's Patchwork Public Defender System w/Larry Jefferson
• How the Georgia AG is using RICO to Punish Free Speech and Cop City Protesters w/Devin Franklin
• The Communication Breakdown Eroding Trust in the Colorado Public Defender System w/Kiyomi Bolick, Mike Kubicek, and Oliver Rose Katz
• What is Causing the Indiana Public Defender System to Fail w/Ashley Spolarich, Deana Martin, and Joel Schumm
• NAPD’s plan to help Public Defenders around the country implement the new National Workload Standards W Cydni Sanchez
• Today, Hunter once again sat down with Stephen Hanlon to talk Public Defender Workload Studies
• 157 - The Racist History of the "Child Welfare" System w/Leshaah Murphy
• 156 - Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about It w/Jay Aronson
• 155 - How the NY Legal Aid Created a Digital Forensics Unit to Push Back on the Power of Police and Prosecutors w/Jerome Greco
• 154 - Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: Why the Use and Expansion of RICO is Bad w/Martin Sabelli
• 153 the coalition fighting to end the trial penalty
• 152: The Political and Personal Agenda Behind Governor DeSantis' Removal of State Attorney Monique Worrell w/Andrew Darling
• 151: Without Trust Between Client and Counsel, Litigation is Limited w/Alexander Kostal
• 150: To Fix Detroit Public Defense, There Must be a Fair Contract for the Neighborhood Defender Services of Detroit w/Cait De Mott Grady, Tom Molina-Duarte, Jonathan Roberts
• 149: It's Time to Abolish the Legalized Theft that is Civil Forfeiture w/Dan Alban
• 144: The Campaign to Close Rikers Island w/Richard Willstatter and Stan German
• What Lead to the Unionization of Maryland Public Defense w/Edie Fortuna and Jose Teneza
• 147: Because of its Systemic Indifference to Suffering, Oklahoma Keeps Punishing Domestic Violence Survivors w/Colleen McCarty and Leslie Briggs
• 148: Jury Nullification, Conscientious Acquittal, and the Fight To Regain Jury Independence w/Clark Neily
• The Never Ending Torture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri w/Annie Morgan
• The Fight for Human Rights at Guantanamo Bay w/John Baker
• The Horrifying Surveillance Tech Coming to a Neighborhood Near You w/Dhurv Mehrotra
• How to Use the Appellate System to Push Back on the Family Policing System w/Annick Lenoir-Peek
• The Race and Class Dynamics Haunting the Connecticut Family Policing System w/Josh Michtom
• The Many Ways Alabama Denies People a Second Chance After Leaving Prison w/Stacey Fuller and Kathleen Henderson
• The Driving Force Behind the Growth of Santa Barbara Public Defense w/Deepak Budwani
• If You Cannot Afford an Attorney, One Will not Be Appointed to You w/ Dr. Andrew Davies, Dr. Victoria Smeigocki, and Shelby Sirivore
• While She Breathes, She Hopes for a Better Future for South Carolina Public Safety w/Cameron Blazer
• The Colorado Bond Law Enriching the Bail Bond Industry w/Katie Yens
• Poverty, Prison, and a Path to Redemption w/Champ Napier
• The Tech Solutions that can Propel Public Defense into the Future w/Rocky Ramirez
• Autonomy to Decide: Managing an Effective Defense with a Challenging Client w/Randy Fiedler and Stacy Newman
• How to Solve the Public Defender Shortage in Rural America w/Patrick Crowley, Michael Naughton and Jonathan Sacks
• It's Time to Value Paralegals and Social Workers as much as Attorneys w/ Latosha Watts and Taneal Behrens
• From Portland to Klamath Falls, Public Defense in Oregon is on Life Support w/Lee Wachocki and Eve Costello
• You Might Go to Prison Even Though You're Innocent w/Justin Brooks
• How a Vicious Union Busting Campaign Could Cripple Louisville Public Defense w/Cat Vining and Morgan King
• 50 Shades of Grey Goes to Court: How to Present BDSM and Non-Monogamy in Court w/Jill Weinberg
• The Bronx Defenders' Transformation from Scabs to Unionization w/Babatunde Aremu
• Representing Youths is Just as Important as Representing Adults, and It's Time Public Defense Acted Like it w/Mary Ann Scali and HyeJi Kim
• When Student Loan Payments Get Turned Back on, What Will Happen to Public Defense? w/Jane Fox and Kyle Morris
• How the King County Public Defender Union is Becoming a Player in Washington Politics w/Elbert Aull
• A Broken Legal System, A Lack of Health Care, and How the US Keeps Puerto Rico Under its Thumb w/Diego Alcala
• The Promise and Problems of Progressive Prosecution w/Keisha Hudson, Mano Raju and Ricardo Garcia
• Is There a Better Way to Provide Public Defense w/James McDermott and Paul Chambers
• How A Coalition of Prosecutors, City Attorneys, and Public Defenders Produces Better Working Conditions w/Alexandra Pray
• How Mitigation Confronts the Biases of Jurors, Judges, Prosecutors, and Public Defenders w/Victoria Rusk
• A New Path for Public Safety in San Francisco w/Mano Raju
• What are a Lawyer's Ethical Obligations to Society? w/David Siegel
• 110: The Paper Prisons that Keep Millions of Americans From a Second Chance w/Colleen Chien and Alyssa Aguilar
• How Unionization Enables Public Defenders to Get Victories in and Out of Court w/Garret Miller and Brooke Longuevan
• One Investigators Efforts to Revitalize Public Defense in Barron County, Wisconsin w/Felicia Tempel
• Non-Capital Mitigation and the Quest to Inject Empathy into the Law w/Lindsay Bendell
• Why it is so Difficult to Get the Innocent out of Prison w/Daniel Medwed
• Unlocking the Potential of Public Defense in LA County w/Ricardo Garcia
• How Public Defense is Failing in the West w/Emily Hamer
• How the Delaware Law Enforcement Bill of Rights Keeps Cop Misconduct Hidden w/Kevin O'Connell, Misty Seemans, and Elliot Marguels
• 101: Reflecting on Gideon v Wainwright, the Past, Present and Future of Public Defense w/Justine Olderman and Wes Caines
• Do Sex Offender Registries Make Us Safer? w/David Garlock
• There is no Public Defense Without Investigators w/Jon Lyon
• Making the Case for the Abolition of Court Fees w/Priya Sarathy Jones
• A Reason to Hope for Connecticut Public Defense w/TaShun Bowden-Lewis
• How to Include the Formerly Incarcerated in Public Defense w/Anthony Graves
• Normally in criminal law, intent matters. ...Then came the felony murder law.
• Hunter spoke with the newest Chief Public Defender for the State of Maryland, Natasha Dartigue.
• between a third and a half of indigent people accused of a crime, they will be given either an assigned or contract Public Defender
• For some reason, people forget that long before New York or Illinois ended cash bail, New Jersey successfully eliminated cash bail.
• the only holistic public defender office in the state of Kansas dedicated to representing only misdemeanor clients.
• Hunter spoke with Diane Lozano, the Wyoming State Public Defender
• For decades, activists, scholars, and attorneys decried the state of public defense in New York
• Today on the show, Hunter spoke with Michael Smith
• Today, Hunter spoke with Felipe Gonzalez, a felony public defender in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
• ...empower regular people with the knowledge necessary to push back against the overreach of the state via police and prosecutors
• ...people stuck in prison or on community supervision long after they should technically be free
• ... Jason Tashea to discuss the exciting intersection of tech and the legal system
• ...prisoners stuck in the Massachusetts prison system face near daily deprivation of basic human and Constitutional rights.
• Yolo County California..maintains a strong holistic public defense practice
• Why are some state’s public defense systems so strong while others are so weak?
• ... the impacts of Dobbs v Jackson
• Three-attorney North Dakota public defender office has zero attorneys on staff
• Alabama's Opioid crisis
• ...two inspiring guests from Partners for Justice
• ...all things Utah Public Defense.
• Most people believe that life sentences keep people safe...
• California’s first public defender Immigration Representation Unit
• A discussion about dismantling America’s punishment bureaucracy
• The Need for Holistic Family Representation
• Why do we punish people? What are the goals of punishment and the legal system?
• As many long time listeners know, assigned and contract systems are wrought with major issues
• Can people incarcerated afford to wait for small, gradual change?
• For Public Defenders who serve in coastal areas, the story on toady’s show will be all too familiar
• How can journalists and public defenders work together to bring awareness to the real issues plaguing our court system?
• When does a victim become a suspect?
• Are public defense unions the solution to reform?
• Public Defenseless, Johann Drolshagen, and the Problem of Brady Violations
• Doug Wilson, Aurora's Municipal Defender, On Public Defenseless
• Class-Action for Relief in WI Featured on Public Defenseless
• Heather Cessna Discusses Kansas System on Public Defenseless
• Why More People and Public Defenders Need to Think and Advocate Systemically w/Olayemi Olurin
• Could Veteran Treatment Courts be the Key to Unlocking Criminal Justice Reforms? with David Pelletier
• The Recent Victories Igniting New Hope for Missouri Public Defense w/Mary Fox
• Missouri Public Defense with Anthony Rothert
• The Court Fines and Fees that Fund Alabama with Adam Danneman and Leah Nelson
• What is Causing the Crisis in Oregon Public Defense?
• Ray Keith Discusses the Death Penalty in Texas
• At What Cost? Findings from an Examination into the Imposition of Public Defense System Fees
• In Small-Town Georgia, A Broken Taillight Can Lead to Spiraling Debt w/Nick Barber
• New Podcast: Justin Heim Explores Social Workers' Role in Public Defense
• Public Defenseless Discusses Guns & Bail Reform with Cook County Defender Sharone Mitchell, Jr
• NAPD Director Lori James-Townes Interviewed on Public Defenseless
• Public Defenseless Interviews Miami PD Carlos Martinez
• Public Defenseless and Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick Discuss Plea Deals
• Michigan's Public Defense Reform Leader Kristin Staley Featured on Public Defenseless
• Policy Work to End Mass-Incarceration: The Latest from Public Defenseless
• Public Defenseless Talks with Jenny Andrews about Public Defender Wellness
• Public Defenseless Interviews Brendon Woods in Oakland, CA
• Public Defenseless Interviews NAPD Team Members Jeff Sherr and Heather Hall
• Ernie Lewis Discusses KY and NAPD on Public Defenseless
• Public Defenseless: Loan Forgiveness
• Massachusetts CPCS featuring Anthony Benedetti
• Nevada Takes its Turn on Public Defenseless
• Cyrus Wilson and Dawn Deaner Discuss Injustice in Nashville
• Mark Stephens on Public Defenseless Podcast
• Public Defenseless Podcast: A Judge's Perspective on Public Defense Reform
• Public Defenseless Features the Aurora (CO) Municipal Public Defender Program
• Barry Jones' Lawyer and Investigator Talk with Public Defenseless
• The Innocence Project + Public Defenseless Podcast
• Ed Monahan Featured on Public Defenseless
• Public Defenseless Interviews Zealous' Scott Hechinger
• Public Defenseless Features Jon Rapping of Gideon's Promise
• Public Defenseless Episode Is Arguably Most Powerful Episode Yet
• Public Defenseless Explores Appellate Advocacy
• Public Defenseless: A Podcast with Aisha McWeay
• Public Defenseless: Podcast with Keisha Hudson
• Public Defenseless covers... trust.
• Today on Public Defenseless, a chat with Stephen Hanlon...