Bio
Somil Trivedi is a Senior Staff Attorney in the Criminal Law Reform Project, working closely with the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice. Trivedi is focused on prosecutorial and criminal law reform litigation, policy, and advocacy.
Featured Work
Coerced Out of Justice: How Prosecutors Abuse Their Power to Secure Guilty Pleas
In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, we’re suing Maricopa County prosecutors to stop them from retaliating against people who assert their rights during plea bargaining.
We’re Suing Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to Release the Records He’s Hiding From Arizonans
Montgomery has blocked effective, commonsense criminal justice reform proposals from becoming law in part by criticizing them as having “no data to support” them, and as being “pet projects” “based on myths and rhetoric.”