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05/17/25 Attorney Omar Figueroa is widely respected as an industry expert. Omar is a Director of the Sebastopol Center

On this edition of Century: Systemic Racism in the Criminal Legal

System. Recently at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the

Fourth Annual Session of the International Independent Expert

Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement

held public consultations on systemic racism against Africans and

people of African descent in the criminal legal system. This week on

Century of Lies we hear portions of those consultations, including

presentations by Jerome Mangelinckx, Global Policy Manager at Penal

Reform International; Emmanuel Achiri, Policy Advisor at the European

Network Against Racism; Carolina Silva Portero, Legal Scholar and

Consultant with the Afro-Latin American Research Institute; and

Brandon J Buskey, Criminal Law Reform Project Director at the American

Civil Liberties Union.

Omar Figueroa has more than twenty six years of experience at the vanguard of California cannabis law and is widely respected as an industry expert. Omar is a Director of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and the Sonoma County Bar Association. Omar\'s interests are not limited to cannabis, and he has a profound, long-term interest in entheogen law and policy. Omar also volunteered his time as a Board Member with the Sonoma County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, and along with other members of its the Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology (LEST) teamspearheadedSonoma County\'s first Surveillance Technology Ordinance. Omar has a long record of pro bono service, including decades of successfully defending protesters and activists. Some notable pro bono cases defended by Omar include, but are not limited to: dismissal of the first federal prosecution brought under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act; dismissal of state charges against OG computer hacker Kevin Mitnick in Los Angeles County; no jail time against journalist Will Parrish in Mendocino County; dismissal against septuagenarian forest defender in Humboldt County; hung jury trial in the Southern District of California (San Diego federal court) with no jail time against legendary activist Rod Coronado; no jail time and no felony conviction against a member of the so-called Paypal 14in the Northern District of California. Omar was trained as a litigator by his mentor, legendary San Francisco trial lawyer J. Tony Serra, sometimes called the Hippie Atticus Finch.

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