INVESTIGATION

MITIGATION

Holistic Defense

I practice holistic defense investigation and mitigation. Working predominantly in the world’s incarceration capital of Louisiana, my work requires creative, community-based responses to the harm that my clients have done and the harm that has been done to them. For nearly 20 years, my work has been about investigating heart-centered truth-telling.

About me

I have worked with

*Federal Public Defender Eastern District of Louisiana

*Seattle Law School

*Orleans Public Defenders

*Louisiana Center for Children's Rights

*Capital Defense Project of SE Louisiana

*CJA SDNY

*CJA EDNY

*Federal Public Defender Eastern District of Louisiana *Seattle Law School *Orleans Public Defenders *Louisiana Center for Children's Rights *Capital Defense Project of SE Louisiana *CJA SDNY *CJA EDNY

*Orleans Public Defenders

*Federal Public Defender Eastern District Louisiana

*Louisiana Center for Children's Rights

*Orleans Public Defenders *Federal Public Defender Eastern District Louisiana *Louisiana Center for Children's Rights

*CJA Eastern District NY

*CJA Western District NY

*Legal Aid Manhattan

*CJA Eastern District NY *CJA Western District NY *Legal Aid Manhattan

MY PROCESS

I believe holistic defense is the path through the criminal justice system that is most healing for all.

When the light of investigation gets shined on suffering and the causes of suffering, we have the ability to transform our experience.

When we are able to investigate together in the container of a safe relationship, any and all transformation is possible.

My services

  • Investigation

    Witness locates, interviews, discovery review, locating evidence, and testifying.

  • Mitigation

    Creating relationships, collecting records, telling deep truths, and creating possibility for transformation.

  • Mitigation Film

    Storytelling and creating sentencing advocacy through the tool of film. Deeper truths are felt when they are seen.

  • Training and consulting

    I teach mitigation film with Reel Defense: Mitigation Film Collective and have trained folks in mitigation and investigation locally and nationally.