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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

3 months

Police and safety are not the same. Jails and safety are not the same. Prisons and safety are not the same.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

The Virginia law that creates a felony with a mandatory minimum 6-month sentence for attempting to touch a law enforcement officer is ripe for reform. A brief 🧵: 1/

Matthew Gillikin

@mtgillikin

5 months

The courts have now verified that an Albemarle County police officer lied about being assaulted on May 4. UVA used that lie as part of its narrative to justify calling in state riot police.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 years

@ronin_physicist @maddow I had a daydream that Mueller would call in to @maddow during a show and just talk with her for the full hour

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

When law enforcement tell you they need to stop people for minor traffic violations to find drugs and guns, consider the following evidence. 1/3

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 years

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

80% of criminal defendants can’t afford a lawyer and our governor picks the first-ever indictment of a billionaire former president to get upset about a “two-tiered justice system.” Let’s talk about the racist, classist caste system created by Virginia’s criminal legal system.

Glenn Youngkin

@GlennYoungkin

1 year

These charges are unprecedented and it’s a sad day for our country, especially in light of what clearly appears to be a two-tiered justice system where some are selectively prosecuted, and others are not. Parents in Virginia know firsthand what it’s like to be targeted by

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

When Virginia politicians look at what’s happening with these protests—and they’d damn well better look—they should consider which side aligns with fascism, and which side aligns with freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment.

molly conger

@socialistdogmom

5 months

the students stuck on the perimeter could only watch in horror as those inside the encampment were dragged across the ground in the shadow of the rotunda. they’re now chanting “where were you in ‘17?” when the same cops let nazis beat students

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

3 years

Some personal news: my wife and I fell in love again yesterday with someone new. This is Iris James. Mama and baby are doing quite well.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Well, at least no one is crying “bad apples.” Fairfax Co. Police gunned down an unarmed man for stealing sunglasses and no one is in custody. Ladies and gentlemen, your criminal justice system—working just as designed.

Fairfax Co. police: No evidence man shot by officer near Tysons mall was armed - WTOP News

Fairfax County police said there’s no evidence that Timothy McCree Johnson, who was shot and killed Wednesday by officers near Tysons Corner Center, was armed.

wtop.com

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 years

The fact that we still have the death penalty in America in the year 2020 is a moral disaster and an international embarrassment. We should abolish it everywhere, and governors and the president should commute the sentence of every person on death row.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

@SIfill_ Agreed, but when will we stop expecting the criminal legal system to produce justice, when it was designed to protect wealth, property rights, and white supremacy?

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

11 months

“Organized retail theft” is and always has been a myth. But the criminal legal system is quick to adopt new strategies to ramp up policing and incarceration, regardless of whether doing so is based on reality.

Chains are using theft to mask other issues, report says

Retailers are over-stating the impact of theft, new report claims

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Virginia abolished the death penalty in 2021, but the commonwealth wields the power to kill even without a trial. The police killing of Billy Sites this week in Albemarle Co. is another sad indictment of how Virginia responds when people are in crisis.

Father of man killed in Charlottesville standoff speaks out against police response

Cecil Sites says that his son, Billy Sites, should still be alive, despite police saying otherwise.

www.29news.com

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

11 months

This was a spectacular night for criminal justice reform in Virginia. All the progress that so many fought for in 2020 and 2021 will be preserved for another four years, and now we can build on it. Willie Horton-esque fear mongering does not work in Virginia anymore.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

9 months

Court-appt’d attorneys are basically volunteering in VA, to do some of the most necessary, hardest lawyering there is. They haven’t gotten a meaningful raise in 25 years. This gov signed a pay raise for public defenders; he should do the same for private ct-appt’d ones, too.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

I will not get involved in partisan politics. I will not get involved in partisan politics. I will not ~Wait, this person wants to be in office so bad she lied to voters, threatened a man’s career, then doubled down on it? And she wants to be my delegate? No thank you.

Delegate Amy Laufer

@LauferFor55

1 year

This weekend I saw many messages online concerned about recent developments in the campaign for Virginia's 55th District. I too am concerned.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 months

Law enforcement commonly use the “public safety” rationale to justify racism. Blocking a refugee student from getting his nursing degree because he was delivering food during a protest is particularly egregious. Who is safer because of this action by UVa police?

Matthew Gillikin

@mtgillikin

4 months

UVA is blocking a local community college student from completing his nursing degree, despite what appears to be a lack of evidence that a No Trespassing Ordered stemming from May 4 is justified.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

More bonkers vetoes from the Governor of Virginia. Tonight the governor vetoed a bill from @thedrmikejones that would have required court clerks to tell people how much they owe in court fines and fees. 1/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

This is terrific news for the roughly 8,000 people who were told by the Youngkin Administration last year that their good time credits wouldn't count. Great work by our friends @ACLUVA .

ACLU of Virginia

@ACLUVA

1 year

BREAKING: Our cases challenging VADOC's failure to award expanded earned sentence credits under a 2020 law are moving forward at the Supreme Court of Virginia. 🧵👇

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

7 months

The governor killed 10 @JusticeFwdVa priority bills tonight. One of them passed with 62 votes in the House; nearly all had Republican votes in support. Locking people up for drug possession does not make us safer. Criminalizing autism and mental illness does not make us safer.

VAPLAN

@vaplan2018

7 months

Pretty much the entire criminal justice platform vetoed, despite many of these bills having bipartisan support. What is the point of working across the aisle and making compromises if a partisan hack like this will just veto it anyway?

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Some professional news! I'm so excited to join an org that has done so much to eliminate some of the most harmful practices of Virginia's criminal legal system.

Justice Forward VA

@JusticeFwdVa

2 years

Justice Forward Virginia is thrilled to announce the addition of a new Interim Executive Director, Rob Poggenklass, and five new Board members: Steven Keener, Misty Whitehead, Makan Shirafkan, Roseanne Rodriguez and Danita Dawson. 1/3

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Waiting for more facts to come out, but so far we have two officers shooting and killing an unarmed man over a pair of allegedly stolen designer sunglasses. Outrageous.

Fairfax County Police

@FairfaxCountyPD

2 years

Officer-involved shooting in Tysons.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

In 2020 & 2021, Virginia made significant progress on reforming our criminal legal system. Some legislators want to roll that progress back. We can't let them do it. 1/6

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

7 months

Tonight the governor vetoed SB 357 & HB 267, identical bills that offered hope to individuals and families with autistic people and serious mental illness. These families fear calling police when their loved ones experience a crisis. 1/3

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

That year, 2020, more than 97% of all reported assault on law enforcement incidents (1,926 of 1,973) involved either no injury or an apparent minor injury to the officer, according to the Virginia State Police's annual Crime in Virginia report. 3/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

Ahh the criminal legal system. Police arrest, charge, and lock someone up, and the media put the person’s name in the papers and on TV, only for that person to be quickly and totally vindicated in court. Pound of flesh obtained. Churning, churning, misery in, misery out.

Felicity Taylor

@felicityctaylor

5 months

#NOW the case against Kristen Finn has been dismissed. Finn was charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer at the pro-Palestine encampment break up on #UVA Grounds. It was dismissed after hearing from the officers. @CBS19News

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

9 months

A person arguing in good faith would not assume that every person charged with a crime is a “criminal.” That violates a core value of our legal system: the presumption of innocence.

ryhops

@ryryhops

9 months

@rpogge So you want working Virginians to pay more taxes to pay for criminals' "free" attorneys?

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

A public defender on Judiciary?! <swoon>

Senator Scott Surovell

@ssurovell

1 year

Congrats to JCF who has won tonight and will become the first African American State Senateor from NOVA, will make another block in the @VASenateDems Blue Brick Wall & our Brick Wall on the Senate Judicary Committee which sees more bills than any committee other than Finance!

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Incredibly proud to live in the only state in the country that significantly limited pretextual stops in 2020 because they undermine public safety, then watch as a Senate committee defends that progress despite the law enforcement lobby begging to get the stops back. Proud.

Justice Forward VA

@JusticeFwdVa

2 years

BREAKING: @SenLouiseLucas shuts down attempts to repeal Virginia’s limits on police pretext stops, “I’m not willing to whittle this bill down a bit…Black people are going to continue to be killed with these stops.” And just like that, she defeats the repeal. #justiceforwardva

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

I didn't major in math, but that seems like an awful lot of unnecessary interactions between people and the people in uniform who are supposed to be protecting them. We eliminated many pretextual stops in VA in 2020. There's no need to go back. @JusticeFwdVa 3/3

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

Data from the last four Virginia State Police Crime in Virginia reports: Total drug arrests: 2019: 44,700 2020: 28,382 2021: 15,142 2022: 14,429 {down 68%} Seizures of marijuana: 2019: 36,609 2020: 25,012* 2021: 8,262** 2022: 5,187 {down 86%} * decrim 7/1/20 ** legal 7/1/21

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

11 months

Welcome to Virginia, where for a person experiencing mental health crisis who spits at an officer, it’s a felony with a 6-month mandatory minimum, but an officer who punches a mental health patient in the face three times gets a free pass from a judge.

Video shows a former Virginia Beach officer punching a patient. A judge dismissed the assault...

Former Virginia Beach police officer Jemarr Mosley was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery for punching and knocking out a mental health patient at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital …

www.pilotonline.com

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

Frank Baumgartner, a political science professor at UNC, reviewed 20 million traffic stops and determined law enforcement find drugs in about 1/2 of 1% of all stops. They find weapons even less—in just over 1/10 of 1% of all stops. 2/3

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

3 years

I’m not sure what qualifies someone as a “progressive” prosecutor but if you’re convicting children and insisting they serve every day of an adult prison sentence, you ain’t it.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

This UVA protest case illustrates one major problem with the felony of assault on law enforcement—officers can get someone locked up and extract their pound of flesh even when, as in this case, the charge is completely bogus. But it gets worse. 6/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 years

White people telling Black people to wait or compromise on criminal legal reforms because the changes are too bold, too broad, or move too fast is ... something in the 401st year after slavery came to our shores

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Rob Poggenklass

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7 years

@davidminpdx This memo is the most thoughtful, powerful piece of writing I’ve seen from a public official since at least 1/20/17. I weep for joy at the good Mr. Krasner is doing. Thank you for posting.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

3 years

From someone who’s worked in poverty law for the last 11 years, @washingtonpost

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

Assault in VA does not require a physical touching, let alone bodily injury. In 2020, a state senator highlighted the 2013 case of a woman who had flung an onion ring that landed an officer's foot, and was charged with the felony. 2/

Virginia Democrats support lessening charge for assaults on officers

Some Virginia Democrats want to lessen the charge for assaulting an officer but others call the policy anti-police.

www.wric.com

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

6 months

The failure of Virginia courts to use 21st century technology is embarrassing. This week the governor vetoed a bill requiring prosecutors to use e-discovery because “some offices still use typewriters.” Meanwhile states like Iowa have been e-filing court docs since 2014.

Jake at Law

@RealJakeWiener

7 months

A few weeks ago, he got a small bond in VA General District Court. His case was transferred to the Circuit Court, and someone accidentally ticked the "no bond" box on his paperwork during a hearing. So by accident, the court said that he was not eligible for release 2/11

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

7 months

Gov. Youngkin had a choice tonight: prioritize individuals and families who live with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental illness, or prioritize prosecutors. He chose the prosecutors. These families deserve public safety, too. Tonight, they don't have it. 3/3

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Del. Bell believes people accused—not convicted—of violent crimes don’t deserve pretrial release, cops can and should use racist pretexts to stop drivers, drug distribution is always a violent crime, and no one who is in prison deserves a second chance. 1/3

Brad Haywood

@BradleyRHaywood

2 years

No one has ever believed in police & prisons more than Bell. Had tons of sway in his caucus, was the #1 obstacle to bipartisan crim justice reforms like 2nd look, and knew policy better than his opponents—which combined w/his affability meant he usually out-negotiated them. 1/3

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Some personal news: next week I start doing national work on the effects of having a criminal record. I’ll be listening to people across the country about the issues they’re facing and amplifying the need to reduce the negative impact criminal records have.

Collateral Consequences Resource Center

@CCRC_Official

2 years

CCRC has a new Deputy Director!

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

Assault on protected professionals has not always been a felony in Virginia. Like so many other crimes with mandatory minimums, this one originated in 1997, at the height of the panic about rising crime—even though crime had been falling since 1991 5/

Crime Trends: 1990-2016

Crime rates have dropped dramatically over the last quarter-century and remain near historic lows, despite localized increases in some places.

www.brennancenter.org

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

11 months

New gubernatorial campaign strategy just dropped: blame the voters

Activate Virginia

@ActivateVA

11 months

“Stoney says the 39,768 residents who voted against the city’s casino referendum last week are to blame.”

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

Amplifying this, because zero politicians will say anything*—let alone run ads—about the precipitous drop in the murder rate nationwide (6.5% in a year!) *please prove me wrong

Ames Grawert 🎃

@AmesCG

1 year

New data from the @FBI : the national murder rate dropped by 6.5 percent in 2022, falling below 2020 levels. Data from other experts ( @Crimealytics & @CouncilonCJ ) shows we can expect that trend to continue, and maybe even accelerate, in 2023. (Short thread)

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

Despite the pushback from law enforcement, we @JusticeFwdVa will continue to advocate for reform to this unnecessarily harsh criminal law. The damage it inflicts on people's lives throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia is too important to ignore. 15/15

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

10 months

Gov Youngkin says Virginia desperately needs to expand its workforce. How about reducing barriers to employment created by criminal records? Expungement should be free, far-reaching, accessible and automatic. @nolefturnsinc @LegalAidJustice @AFPVA @JusticeFwdVa

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Prosecutors who charge 15-year-olds as adults, for crimes of recklessness, are a threat to public safety. And no child should ever face a 40-year sentence, period.

15-Year-Old Facing 40 Years After Allegedly Selling Fentanyl to Teen Who Died

The girl, who was arrested in Wisconsin after an 18-year-old died of an overdose, was selling fentanyl to pay off a drug debt, according to court documents.

www.vice.com

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

7 months

We had long conversations with law enforcement about these bills. When @JenniferBoysko and @JusticeFwdVa made changes, the Virginia State Police and Sheriffs' Ass'n dropped their objections. At the final hearing, only one organization testified in opposition: prosecutors. 2/3

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

The felony levied against this UVA protester lays bare one of the many problems with this charge: namely, allowing police to arrest someone for a felony that carries a 6-month mandatory minimum sentence when there is no evidence anyone was hurt. 14/

Jason Armesto

@rmest0

5 months

Charges are being dropped against the UVA protestors, including one accused of punching a cop. Video and witnesses dispute the officer's account and may have led to the case being thrown out. One person told me there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute.

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In 2021 and 2022, the number of such incidents that resulted in no injury or an apparent minor injury (bruise, scratch, etc.) did not fall below 90% of all such reported incidents, according to the VSP. 4/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

6 years

Today I argued before the Iowa Supreme Court that it’s an unconstitutional violation of equal protection to deny someone expungement of a dismissed criminal case because they still owe the state the cost of their court-appointed counsel. 1/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

Such charges are often brought against people who were intoxicated, suffering from mental illness, people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, or trauma victims who were terrified by the threat they believed the police posed to them. 7/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

Racial disparities persist as well. In Fairfax County in 2019, Black people were the targets in 46% of police use of force incidents, despite being under 10% of the county’s population. 8/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

For the last five years, @JusticeFwdVa has worked alongside lawmakers, mental health advocates, and advocates for autistics to try to change this law in the face of the tremendous political pushback that comes from any challenge to police, sheriffs, and prosecutors. 9/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

If I were a delegate or senator tomorrow, I would simply vote against giving law enforcement and private corporations the ability to collect the travel data of my constituents, their friends and families. These bills are about surveillance and profit—not public safety.

ACLU of Virginia

@ACLUVA

2 years

Police shouldn't be able to spy on Virginians simply because we use the highways. Today, we signed on to a letter by @JusticeFwdVa to oppose SB1165/HB1437, which would significantly expand mass surveillance via automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in Virginia.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

As Brad said, no person was a greater impediment to CJ reform in VA. As a CJR advocate and one of his constituents, today is downright exciting. As Del. Bell said on the House floor, when the laws you wrote start getting reversed, it’s time to step away. Happy retirement. 3/3

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 years

Really hard to overstate the significance of this. As a public defender, I never saw anyone take a drug distribution case to a jury because of the five-year mandatory minimum. This changes everything

Ned Oliver

@nedoliver

4 years

Virginia lawmakers sign off on closely-watched sentencing reform bill that will end jury penalty that often leads to steep sentences for people who exercise right to trial by jury. Been frequently described as one of the most important criminal justice bills of the session

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

6 years

@PreetBharara @PeteButtigieg The Adventures of Pete and Preet

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

If we applied the same standards to the people who steal billions to people who steal candy bars and diapers, the entire criminal legal system would collapse.

Senator Scott Surovell

@ssurovell

2 years

@LangForVA If we applied the same standards to the people who steal billions to people who steal thousands, America would be a very different place @JusticeFwdVa @NACDL @ACLUVA

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

You mean like a War … on Drugs? If you’re ever inclined to think our elected leaders are smarter or more creative in addressing issues of crime and punishment than the rest of us—they’re not. We need generational change.

President Biden

@POTUS

2 years

Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year. Let’s launch a major surge to stop fentanyl production and sale, with drug detection machines to inspect cargo and stop pills and powder at the border — and impose strong penalties to crack down on trafficking.

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4 years

@pbandgelz No no no. It’s a very expensive gatekeeping and hazing ritual that keeps low-income people and people of color from joining a club that exists mostly to protect white people’s wealth.

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@rpogge

2 years

“Police said Thursday that they had not recovered a weapon; Melissa Johnson said she believed her son was unarmed.” This story is not aging well for Fairfax County law enforcement.

‘He’s dead from shoplifting’: Mother questions why police shot her son

Fairfax County police said officers chased the man, who was thought to have stolen sunglasses at Tysons Corner Center, and shot him in a wooded area nearby.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Imagine living through the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Walter Scott, Philando Castile and on and on and on, and the civil rights movement that followed, only to screw over the 670,000 people of DC, who voted for you by a 92%-5% margin. Awful leadership.

President Biden

@POTUS

2 years

I support D.C. Statehood and home-rule – but I don’t support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the Mayor’s objections – such as lowering penalties for carjackings. If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did – I’ll sign it.

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Three bills in 2020-21 would have repealed the 6-mo. mandatory minimum. One would have allowed juries to convict the person of a misdemeanor where culpability was slight due to diminished capacity. Another would have required a physical touching for a conviction. 10/

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@rpogge

5 months

Since 2022, eight separate bills have focused on defenses to this charge for people with mental illness, ID/DD, and neurocognitive disorders. This year, two of those bills passed the General Assembly with bipartisan support—the first time such a reform has passed the GA. 11/

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@rpogge

5 months

Gov. Youngkin vetoed the bills, citing a perceived reduction to the (many) protections afforded to law enforcement. His explanation failed to mention the people with mental health disorders and disabilities that the bills would have helped to protect. 12/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 months

Extremely grateful for the advocacy of ⁦ @yoyokellyo ⁩ and ⁦ @TFrampton ⁩ and the journalism of ⁦ @rmest0 ⁩. Without them, this situation would’ve gone the way Chief Longo wanted it to, and this man’s life would have quietly been upended.

UVa reverses course, allows nursing student arrested at protest back on Grounds

UVa says that after reviewing "additional information," Mustafa Abdelhamid will be allowed to return to Grounds. It would not say what that information was.

dailyprogress.com

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

The idea that Virginia has a part-time legislature is just farcical. We've already had nine special sessions in the last seven years, and it looks like we may get No. 10. Time to recognize that lawmaking in VA is a full-time job.

BK

@BradKutner

5 months

Okay, so... really nerdy/semi unconfirmed #VAleg thing here. They just moved to "recess pursuant" the language in the budget, rumored to let them call a special session for both #skillgames and the chance to resurrect the local tax option for schools. See you in June?

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

6 months

1.6 million Virginians have a criminal record, creating barriers to employment, housing and most importantly, dignity. Some of these folks are domestic violence survivors who were wrongfully charged. Expungement and sealing offer a way forward. @nolefturnsinc @ssurovell

Wendy Perdue

@PerdueWendy

6 months

So proud of students in the @URLawSchool Children’s Defense Clinic who teamed up with the Carrico Center, @LegalAidJustice , and @JusticeFwdVa to create a pop-up expungement clinic.

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@rpogge

11 months

Criminal charges that don’t end in a conviction don’t automatically disappear in VA, so we do the next best thing—use the courts to expunge them. With @UVALaw @yoyokellyo @LegalAidJustice @nolefturnsinc @HingeleyJim and Joe Platania

Justice Forward VA

@JusticeFwdVa

11 months

Charlottesville and surrounding areas: @LegalAidJustice will be hosting an expungement clinic today, November 9, from 10AM to 3PM—to help people remove eligible charges from their criminal record! Pre-registration is encouraged, RSVP here: #VALeg

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Rob Poggenklass

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5 months

The governor wanted people to have to submit this request in writing AND pay $10 for it. When the House of Delegates unanimously rejected his recommendation, the governor took his ball and went home, vetoing this remarkably common sense legislation. Indefensible behavior. 2/2

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

10 months

@SenateCloakroom Nice to see Mayor Carcetti get the recognition he deserves

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

7 months

This governor is not interested in the safety of autistic people, people with mental illness, or people with substance use disorder. He’s interested only in the politics of fear.

Team Youngkin - Spirit of Virginia

@TeamYoungkin

7 months

Public safety will always come first for Governor @GlennYoungkin : “We have a legislature that has a 1 seat majority in our House and a 1 seat majority in the Senate, and they’re sending me bills that are really representative of the progressive left. They literally want to

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

3 years

Happy July 1, Virginia. A quick 🧵 on what’s happening with criminal records today. First, the major record sealing legislation is not scheduled to take effect until July 1, 2025. No court records of convictions will be sealed till then. 1/4

Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 years

When will the law take effect? It’s going to take some time to upgrade the technology so the state's computer systems can talk to each other, so most provisions won’t take effect until July 1, 2025. 17/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Just an absolute garbage explanation from this administration on the new process for restoration of voting rights. The need for a constitutional amendment has never been more clear.

Senator Scott Surovell

@ssurovell

2 years

Modern bipartisan evidence-based restorative policy that reduced recidivism is dead & ex-felons can now only have voting rights restored using a secret process with secret criteria in the complete absolute discretion of the Governor of VA - we are back to 1902-era policy in VA

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

"For this in-depth investigative story, we recited law enforcement's version of events verbatim, and did not bother to contact any organizations with contrary views."

CBS19 News: Charlottesville News First

@CBS19News

5 months

THURSDAY: Charlottesville and crime. The good, the bad, and the endless debate continue as we a look at the downtown mall #BrickByBrick . CBS19's @felicityctaylor takes a walk with Police Chief Michael Kochis for an EXCLUSIVE interview. Thursday at 6, ONLY on #CBS19News .

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 years

Just your casual reminder that we have an entire apparatus in this country devoted to locking up children for actions they took as children. We call this the “juvenile justice system” #FreeThemAll

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

The governor's veto explanation also failed to mention the many other criminal charges available to law enforcement when they suffer an actual bodily injury. 13/

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

6 months

The governor’s vetoes of these three expungement bills are a total denunciation of the presumption of innocence and rehabilitation—the bedrock principles supporting the adult criminal and juvenile justice systems. This governor believes in scarlet letters.

VAPLAN

@vaplan2018

6 months

Mr "Second Chances Proclamation" once again proves he doesn't actually believe anyone deserves them, by vetoing both @HopeforVirginia expungement for high charges that induce plea bargains and @Sam_Rasoul expungement for juvenile records.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 years

@lexlanham Stories like these remind me how much harder law school is for those of us who don’t have connections like that.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

Del. Bell voted—and whipped most of his caucus—against abolishing the death penalty, against record sealing, against probation reform, against Second Look, and against marijuana legalization, just to name a few. 2/3

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

9 months

Along with ⁦ @nolefturnsinc ⁩, talked to ⁦ @29NewsWVIR ⁩ about the importance of sending Second Look to the governor’s desk. Lengthy sentences don’t make us safer. ⁦ @ACLUVA ⁩ ⁦ @theSIP2021 ⁩ ⁦ @FAMMFoundation ⁩ @JusticeFwdVa ⁩

Filed bill would allow sentence reevaluation for long-term inmates

A new bill filed in the Virginia General Assembly would allow convicts serving long prison sentences to as a judge to reevaluate their cases.

www.29news.com

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 years

Today is a good day for states to cancel the July bar exam and grant diploma privilege instead.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

5 months

We stood on the shoulders of so many incredible Virginia death penalty abolitionists to finally achieve our goal in 2021. Just incredible to be in the room to celebrate the end of @VADP yesterday. Cheers to everyone who helped make it happen.

Mike Mullin

@mikemullin4VA

5 months

Yesterday we celebrated the closing of @VADP , having accomplished an impossible mission, abolition of the death penalty in VA. I am convinced that VA will spearhead abolition in the South. It was my honor to present Exec. Dir., Michael Stone, with a General Assembly commendation.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

@skh4102 Not everyone has to agree the sky is blue, either, but the rest of us can agree on whether such a person is fit for public office.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

One of the most frustrating aspects of the War on Drugs—in addition to the immense harm it has caused—is the sheer lack of creativity from its proponents in the General Assembly. 1/4

Brad Haywood

@BradleyRHaywood

2 years

Sen. McDougle and a slew of cops who've been losing the war on drugs for decades somehow figured this morning was a good time to lecture the Va. Senate on drug policy. Their message? Keep banging your heads against the wall. Do it even harder.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

3 years

Public Service Loan Forgiveness! How it started / How it’s going

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

I’m just feeling incredibly lucky today to work alongside the smartest, most passionate, dedicated advocates for criminal justice reform in the Commonwealth.

ACLU of Virginia

@ACLUVA

2 years

Thank you to all of our partners for helping us defeat this mass surveillance effort: 🙌 @JusticeFwdVa 🙌 @LegalAidJustice 🙌 @AFPVA 🙌 @VAstudentpower 🙌 @thcjusticenow 🙌 @ActivateVA 🙌 @changeservant and many others!

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

9 months

The incredible passion, dedication, and experience of our volunteer advocates was on full display Thursday. We’re moving the needle on criminal justice reform, expanding on what Brad and others built. The CJR advocacy movement is bigger and stronger in VA than ever before.

Brad Haywood

@BradleyRHaywood

9 months

Today is @JusticeFwdVa ‘s Lobby Day—the first I’ve missed since we started JFV in 2017. I can’t tell you how much I wish I were there. Godspeed, y’all: may the legislators be present in their offices and Todd Gilbert’s chief of staff not treat you like dog poop.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 years

Virginia's groundbreaking record sealing bills are headed to the governor's desk. It's a BFD. Here's a lengthy explainer of what these bills will do. 1/18

Nolef Turns Inc.

@nolefturnsinc

4 years

There are few things that bring me to tears. 1.6 million Virginians have NEVER been able to seal a criminal record. A felony will no longer be forever. #history #VAGA21 #expungementsnow Thank you 💕 @C_Herring @ssurovell @GovernorVA @LegalAidJustice VA Expungement Council

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

As the VA House of Delegates passes yet another bill to bring back pretextual policing, here's something to consider, from the org that tracks every known case of an innocent person convicted in the American criminal legal system. The War on Drugs is racist. End it, Virginia.

Natl. Registry of Exonerations

@exonerationlist

2 years

Racial injustices exist in every aspect of the U.S. criminal legal system, but there is a particularly stark racial disparity in rates of wrongful convictions for drug crimes. Because drug crimes are almost never reported, police choose who to pursue for drug offenses... (1/3)

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

10 months

@davidminpdx But law enforcement benefits from it and the media depend on them for most crime reporting so

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

7 months

These bills are at least five years in the making. In a House subcommittee, an Albemarle Co. father of an adult son with autism said he regretted calling police to help because of the felony charge that ensued. We cannot continue to put parents in this impossible situation.

Justice Forward VA

@JusticeFwdVa

7 months

BREAKING: Bills aimed at Amending the Assault on Law Enforcement Statute to protect people with autism, ID/DD, and serious mental illness are headed to the Gov’s desk! Thanks Sen. @JenniferBoysko & Del. Watts for your commitment to serving our most vulnerable populations! #VALeg

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

4 years

Madam Speaker wants automatic expungement of marijuana convictions July 1! This is a BFD @nolefturnsinc @ChelseaWiseRVA @AndyElders @awoo_

Eileen Filler-Corn

@EFillerCorn

4 years

The legalization of Marijuana is a critical step in the direction of creating a fairer and more equitable Virginia. I continue to work with @C_Herring , @delegatebagby , my colleagues in the House & Senate & @GovernorVA to amend our bill with a legalization date of July, 1st, 2021.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

Indeed. We are all one angry police officer or prosecutor away from being an accused felon.

Brad Haywood

@BradleyRHaywood

1 year

Hey @vademocrats , you can criticize your opponents’ lack of integrity without using dehumanizing, carceral language. Next time you talk about George Santos, try “total butthead” or “narcissistic weirdo” in place of “accused felon”

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

2 years

This is spot on. In Virginia, the movement toward racial justice in 2020-21 spurred some actual policy changes—not enough, but some. And tellingly, opponents are trying to wipe it all out. We can’t let that happen. We still have so much more to do.

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

9 months

At @JusticeFwdVa we are aggressively pushing to reform Virginia's criminal legal system with smart, evidence-informed policies. We've made considerable progress toward bringing VA out of the Stone Age. Our opponents: "Let's bring back capital punishment."

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Rob Poggenklass

@rpogge

1 year

A helpful reminder that one of the bluest counties in Va has a disturbing history of racism and private property ownership. This history should inform our views on housing, policing, and many other issues.

Jordy Yager

@jordyyager

1 year

In 1938, the CCC built Lake Albemarle. In 1940, a white development corp subdivided the land along the south side of the lake into 70 residential lots in a subdivision it called: White Hall Lake. All 70 of those properties racial covenants.