Joshua Boyer

Skilled litigation support professional well-versed research and due diligence, fact investigations and records management. Professional writing and editing, data organization and documentation strengths. Talented Policy Analyst with background completing in-depth reviews under tight timelines to evaluate current, pending and proposed changes. Well-versed in authoring reports and developing recommendations to benefit federal criminal justice policy. Over 22 years of experience federal policy management.

• Guest Lecturer: Stash House Sting Operations, Georgetown University Law Center, 09/14/23
• Guest Lecturer: Community-Based Participatory Research in Criminal Justice Reform, University of North Carolina, 03/01/23
• Guest Lecturer: Stash House Sting Operations, Georgetown University Law Center, 09/15/22
• Panelist: First-Person Perspectives at the Second Chances Symposium, University of Chicago Law School, 02/18/22
• Guest Lecturer: The First Step Act and Stash House Sting Operations, University of Chicago Law School, 02/17/21
• Panelist: Centering Impacted Persons in Criminal Justice Reform, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer’s 2020 Presidential Summit & Sentencing Symposium, 10/21/20
• Guest Lecturer: Prison Conditions, Georgetown University Law Center, 09/26/18

• Rachel Poser, Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes, NEW YORKER (Oct. 11, 2021)
• Shon R. Hopwood, A Sunny Deposition: How the In Forma Pauperis Statute Provides an Avenue for Indigent Prisoners to Seek Depositions Without Accompanying Fees, 46 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 195 (2011)
• Jonathan Abel, Ineffective Assistance of Library: The Failings and the Future of Prison Law Libraries, 101 GEO. L.J. 1171 (2013)
• Adam Wisnieski, Outrageous Government Conduct: Readers Respond, THE CRIME REPORT (Nov. 26, 2015)

• Statement of Alison Siegler, Erica Zunkel & Judith P. Miller, Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, Hearing on “Controlled Substances: Federal Policies and Enforcement” (March 11, 2021)
• Joshua Boyer, The Case Against the DOJ’s Stash House Stings: Why the House Committee for Oversight & Government Reform Should Investigate and Recommend Retroactive Sentencing Relief for Those Affected (2019)
• Letter to House and Senate Leaders: First Step Act Support, Formerly Incarcerated Activists Who Endorse the First Step Act, FAMM (Jun. 16, 2018)

• USDOJ, Office of the Pardon Attorney, The Case for Second Chances: A Conversation About Criminal Justice, Collateral Consequences and Clemency, 09/22/23
• Academic & Health Policy Conference on Criminal Justice Health (ACCJH), Raleigh, NC, 04/13/23 & 04/14/23
• Justice Roundtable, Book Talk: Featuring Rachel Barkow, Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, Google DC Headquarters, 03/12/19
• The Heritage Foundation, To Seek Justice: Defining the Power of the Prosecutor, 04/11/19
• The Federalist Society, The Rule of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Jesse Liu, DOJ District of Columbia, Bill McSwain, DOJ Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Professor Shon Hopwood, Georgetown Law

• Certiorari (SCOTUS)
• Direct appeals (criminal, habeas & civil rights)
• Motions to Vacate (28 U.S.C. 2255)
• Petitions for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (28 U.S.C. 2241)
• 42 U.S.C. 1983 prisoner rights suits
• Bivens prisoner rights suits
• FOIA/Privacy Act requests, agency appeals & suits

• Professor Katharine Tinto, Director, Criminal Justice Clinic, UC Irvine School of Law, 401 East Peltason Drive (Law 3800-L), Irvine, CA, 92697-8000, (323) 243-9182, ktinto@law.uci.edu
• Kyle Singhal, Partner, Hopwood & Singhal PLLC, 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC, 20006, (817) 212-9041, kyle@hopwoodsinghal.com
• Erica Zunkel, Clinical Professor of Law, Juvenile Justice Clinic, UChicago Law, 6020 South University Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, (773) 702-0612, ezunkel@uchicago.edu