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City of Denver Sweeps At Least 100 Homeless People Ahead of Settlement Approval

DENVER, CO, April 17th–Today, the city of Denver swept at least a hundred homeless people and confiscated their property with no written notice near the intersections of Broadway, Lawrence Street and Park Avenue. This action took place ahead of the…

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Essay: What I learned about police while homeless

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When I lost my sublet and joined the community of people living at a fixed address, I found that police perceived me as a danger.

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This guy's story is all too common, but one part of it that's not mentioned is what happened to his 6th Amendment right to counsel from the time of his very first court date? Seems that competent counsel could have prevented this horror from the beginning, and it's a fact that right to counsel failures are systemic all across the country, especially in the context of indigent people being brought up on petty and even unconstitutional charges.

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