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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A culture of meaningful accountability would have gone a long way to prevent this. But LEOs have been included in the elite impunity club, so a guy like this gets to break the law and still be allowed to enforce it at his discretion.

Paragraph four of the civil rights complaint in the quoted post, which reads, "O'Connell is an officer with a documented history of volatility and poor judgment, having previously been terminated from the St. John's County Sheriff's Office for threatening to "blow up" the agency, later reinstated, then arrested for domestic battery before resigning under the weight of those charges. Jacksonville Beach PD hired him anyway, assigned him as lead investigator on a sensitive child-luring case, and later promoted him to corporal after his investigation resulted in the wrongful arrest and prosecution of an innocent man."

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Really, Sam? Really? Very rich coming from the guy who loves upending the law via the “emergency docket.”

An excerpt from a Balls and Strikes article which reads, “The justices’ reasons varied greatly. Justice Samuel Alito, for example criticized the ‘hurried manner’ of the case, suggesting it should work through the courts the normal way.”

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Post-conviction work is grueling and wins are few and far between, but every now and again we are reminded why we do the work.

A hand drawn “thank you” card featuring a humming bird and pink flowers.

Another thank you card with hand drawn barbed wire and prison bars and text that reads, “I want to thank all of the teachers and students at the [West Virginia] Innocence Project for taking my case, for without you all I would have any hope in going home. Thank you.” The name of the sender is redacted.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Behold, my office tomatoes. I put a piece of a cherry tomato from a sandwich in my office plant a couple of years ago. It sprouted earlier this summer and is doing its thing.

A small tomato plant with small unripe tomatoes growing in front of an office window.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Look at what I got in the mail today. Excited to get started on this. @equalityalec.bsky.social

A hardcover copy of “Copaganda,” by Alex Karakatsanis on a wooden desk.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

@edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social I donated $60.26 (plus processing fee) for Rich Rod's record during his first stint at WVU. Spot the damn ball!

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Met this large friend walking back to work after lunch, and had the pleasure of escorting him home. (He had slipped his invisible fence)

A large brindle coated mastiff standing on a sidewalk.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I’m kind of curious how/why Monroe County gained population, and if Mon County’s population growth will continue as WVU struggles.

A map of West Virginia showing population change by county from 2020-2023. All counties except for Monongalia, Monroe, Hampshire, Morgan, Berkeley, and Jefferson have lost population during this time period.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Why would you not challenge this? There are a lot of defense attorneys that are simply far too credulous.

A paragraph from the article in the quoted post that reads: "In other cases--murder trials for Salah Mahdi and Adarus Black--defense attorneys didn't challenge the use of Cybercheck and the trials resulted in convictions. Both convictions were upheld by an appeals court."

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

This is meaningless pablum. A waste of characters.

A screenshot of a New York Times’ story about Kamala Harris saying Donald Trump will repeal the Affordable Care Act if elected, which reads: “The absence of a Republican plan underscores how dramatically the politics of Obamacare have changed since the law was enacted, and since the Biden administration nearly doubled enrollment in its marketplaces through the use of subsidies that lowered the costs of plans.”

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

From your lips to god’s ears, Connecticut Supreme Court:

An excerpt from a Connecticut Supreme Court case that states: “We next had occasion to consider eyewitness identification evidence in Dickson. We held that, contrary to our prior case law on the topic, ‘in cases n which the identity is an issue, in-court identifications that are not preceded by a successful identification in a nonsuggestive identification procedure implicate due process principles, and, therefore, must be presented by the trial court. . . . We reasoned that ‘we are hard pressed to imagine how there could be a more suggestive identification procedure than placing a witness on the stand in open court, confronting the witness with the person whom the state has accused of committing the crime, and then asking the witness if they can identify the person who committed the crime.”

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

This was used in Ulster County, NY during the last election:

A sticker that says, “I Voted,” in a strange red font accompanied by a spider like creature with a human head, red eyes, and a strange toothy grin.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Please enjoy my hawk neighbor in these trying times. There are a pair of them, and they are very cool to watch.

A brown hawk with white tips on its feathers perches on a white metal fence.

A brown hawk with a white belly perches on a brown privacy fence.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Please enjoy this photo of Otis enjoying the pool weather this weekend.

A small brown and black Yorkshire terrier lays on a dog bed on a deck.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

Friends, please do not accept an appointment to represent someone in a murder trial if you don’t understand basic trial practice ⚖️:

A screenshot from a habeas corpus petition alleging ineffective assistance of counsel wherein a trial attorney testified that she did not know you could object during opening statements and closing argument.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

Got this response to a FOIA request today. Feel like I should go buy a lottery ticket.

A cardboard CD mailer from the DOJ/FBI addressed to the West Virginia Innocence Project.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

@edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social #charitibundibowl I donated $69 (before taxes and fees) in honor of Amos Zereoue's first collegiate carry, one of my earliest clear memories of WVU football: www.smokingmusket.com/2017/8/31/16...

A photo of a thank you page reflecting a donation of $70.83 ($69 before fees) to New American Pathways for the EDSBS Charity Bowl.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

@drewmagary.bsky.social saw this chicken sandwich special at my regular happy hour place and though of you and your desire for a dark meat chicken sandwich. Have you ever found one?

An ad for a “Low Country,” chicken sandwich featuring crispy chicken thigh, honey hot sauce, pimento cheese bread & butter pickles, tomato slices and butter lettuce.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

The collective number of years served by exonerees at this year’s Innocence Network Conference. ⚖️

A photo of a PowerPoint slide on a large projector screen which reads, “6,654+ Years”.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

They're gonna need to get to work on creating some new words, because this is too generic to cut it:

A screenshot from google translate showing that the "Portuguese word for hoagie," is just the generic term for a sandwich: "sanduiche"

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

The Heritage Foundation’s policy positions: 1) requiring a permit to own a gun is government overreach and an infringement on personal liberty; and 2) the government should be able to dictate when, how, and who has sex. Really great group.

A tweet from the Heritage Foundation that reads: "It seems to me that a good place to start would be a feminist movement against the pill, & for... returning the consequentiality to sex."
Conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, & ending recreational sex & senseless use of birth control pills.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

If anyone is going to be in Morgantown on Monday, some of my students and their peers at the WVU College of Law have put together a reentry simulation in conjunction with the local U.S. Attorney's Office. Come learn about the challenges incarcerated people face as they get out! ⚖️

A flyer advertising a Re-entry simulation hosted by Student Attorneys from the West Virginia Innocence Project and the West Virginia University College of Law Criminal Law Society and presented by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of West Virginia on Monday, February 26, at 3:00 p.m. There is a QR code on the flyer that can be scanned for additional information.

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Devon Unger (He/Him) @devonunger.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

This footnote, in particular, makes me want to vomit. I have way to much to say about everything in this footnote and what it assumes about how any court this country treats a given habeas petition.

A footnote from a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion dissenting to the court’s decision and discussing habeas corpus cases. The footnote reads: 'It is baseless to suggest, as a panel of our court did, that overdetained prisoners cannot get habeas relief. See Hicks v. LeBlanc, 81 F.4th 497, 509 & n.76 (5th Cir. 2023). It is of course true that a would-be § 2241 petitioner like McNeal would have to exhaust his remedies in state court first. See Thomas v. Crosby, 371 F.3d 782, 812 (11th Cir. 2004) (Tjoflat, J., specially concurring) (" Although there is a distinction in the statutory language of 8s 2254 and 2241, there is no distinction insofar as the exhaustion requirement is concerned."). But we have no basis to think the state courts would have turned a blind eye to a properly filed habeas petition. And even if they did, the federal courts certainly would not have. Cf. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(1)(B)(i)-(ii). . .

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