"Zoom" Hearings Violate Constitutional Rights

On November 20, 2020, Attorney Wood on behalf of MACDL - along with Katherine Naples-Mitchell of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice and Meredith Shih of the Boston Bar Association - filed a joint amicus brief arguing that forcing defendants to have suppression hearings heard over “Zoom” will disparately harm people of color. Zoom hearings disproportionately limit access to these public hearings that determine whether police have engaged in unconstitutional conduct in cases that are disproportionately brought against people of color.