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Hector Perla

San Diego
As seen in: Medium, The Washington Post, SFGate
Covers:  Criminal Law, Constitutional Rights, Immigration, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Citizenship, Power, Rule of Law, International Relations, Latin America.
🇸🇻 🇺🇸 Trial Attorney/Deputy Public Defender | Author | Advocate for the Accused & Incarcerated. Writing on Law, Due Process, Human Rights, and Power.
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Hector Perla Jr. is a California trial attorney and author whose writing focuses on criminal law, due process, immigration, human rights, democracy, Latin America, and the exercise of state power. He currently serves as a Deputy Public Defender in San Diego County and is the author of Sandinista Nicaragua’s Resistance to U.S. Coercion, published by Cambridge University Press. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Warrior, and other publications.