Published on: Friday, June 21, 2024

Professors Alison Siegler and Erica Zunkel from the University of Chicago have created at two-part podcast episode focused on stash house stings and compassionate release. 

Part 1 of this two-part episode focuses on clients ensnared in undercover stash house sting operations carried out by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and how the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School sought to prove that the ATF violated the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause by discriminating on the basis of race when selecting its targets.

Part 2 covers how the University of Chicago Law School's Federal Criminal Justice Clinic pushed the boundaries of criminal defense and leveraged the First Step Act to secure compassionate release for stash house sting defendants who were not part of the clinic's "criminal class action" litigation. 

Alison Siegler is Clinical Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School; Erica Zunkel is Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and teaches in the school's Criminal and Juvenile Justice Clinic.

These podcasts can be viewed on Youtube here and Apple Podcasts here