Gators National Lawyers Guild

First meeting of the semester tomorrow! Come by to hear more about the club!

‼ Our new and improved Know Your Rights booklet is now online and available for download.

You can download the new booklet and any of our classic booklets at www.nlg.org/know-your-rights/.

Sign and share to help enforce the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury!

Sign the Petition Tell Florida's Judicial Circuits to Implement Implicit Bias Education for Jurors

Good afternoon y'all, would any lawyer or law student be interested in voter protection at Putnam County? I just received the following email.

"[We] are a lawyers group helping with voter protection in Florida and am looking urgently for qualified lawyers (or law students) to volunteer for various roles in Putnam County. Would you and/or members of your organization be able to assist us in Putnam County? If you have any members, or can refer us to any attorneys who are registered to vote in Putnam County that would be enormously helpful. However, we have need of Florida volunteers even if not Putnam County residents."

Rad!

“When You Arrest as Many People as We Do, You Cannot Protect Against Infectious Spread” A new study finds that American jails — not just prisons — are a major hot spot for spreading coronavirus. The solution is simple: stop arresting so many people.

Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester The ACLU of Connecticut is suing state police for fabricating retaliatory criminal charges against a protester after troopers were recorded discussing how to trump up charges against him. In what seems like an unlikely stroke of cosmic karma, the recording came about after a camera belonging to the....