Thread by @DrRJKavanagh

If this is the standard, I'm gonna file $$$ million lawsuits on behalf of my teenage clients whose names & mug shots are plastered across newspapers w/ zero consideration as to whether they're guilty of a crime, often when they're not even charged w/ one.

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And not just mug shots, newspapers will publish photos of my teenager clients captured from store or subway video surveillance, people's cell phones etc.

All in the context of criminal investigations. All highly prejudicial.

But when kids are arrested and it is their mug shots that get printed in the newspaper, this is more devastating than anything, because nothing more clearly connotes criminality.

But someone who is arrested and charged with a crime is guilty of nothing.

The majority of kids' cases will get dismissed.

The rest - some will be acquitted at trial, many will be resolved with non-criminal dispositions.

But those newspaper articles with photos & mugshots - they exist in perpetuity.

So if Nick Sandmann is going to argue some sort of rush to judgment, then I think my teenage clients have pretty strong cases against newspapers like @nypost and most of the tabloid press. Let's see how this plays out.