Law Office of Willow Hillman

01/29/2024

Some days are harder than others…

05/19/2023

There is no client as scary as an innocent man!

12/01/2022

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown today announced a pardon for Oregonians convicted on ma*****na possession charges, a move that will impact approximately 45,000 people.

09/04/2020

I asked a drug court to send me to jail to get stabilized. But when the jail refused to give me my Suboxone, everything came crashing down.

03/03/2020

Scary times we are living in... this is not okay.

The episode emphasizes why public defender offices should be free from political pressure.

02/19/2020

“I don’t believe the law should protect a man who rapes a child, or his enabler,” attorney John Fitch said. “The law should protect the child.” Fitch is representing Amanda Brandt, a 26-year-old survivor of child sexual abuse by Roy P***a.

01/14/2020

The vast number of cases brought under our system of mass incarceration means that plea bargaining is the only way for courts to get through the sheer number of cases in their dockets. This system lacks process, fairness, and often even rule of law.

10/31/2019

Twenty-five years after the infamous 1994 crime bill, too many criminal justice groups are simply reimagining mass incarceration.

10/06/2019

This!!! Defendants already lose a portion of their bail even if they are never convicted of a crime. Making them also have to pay for monitoring is equally offensive.

Counties cannot force defendants to pay for their own monitoring before they are convicted of any crime, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.

08/15/2019

This....

American prosecutors are equipped with a fearsome array of tools they can and do use to discourage people from exercising their right to a jury trial.

08/03/2019

Jury duty is not a punch line. I helped decide a case about police, a black driver and a traffic stop, and I never felt more significant as a citizen.