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Brad Rouse

Brad Rouse

Brad Rouse

I graduated from Harvard, worked on Broadway, and broke the law in 2007. Today, I help defendants tell their stories at the most important moment of their lives. As a mitigation specialist, I work as a wise counselor, sober coach, and collaborative writer.

FEATURED MEDIA

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Interview discussing federal detention, justice mitigation, and personal transformation.

DEFENDANT SUPPORT

Nonprofit Justice
Mitigation Services

Since 2018, I’ve helped hundreds of federal defendants tell their stories at the most important moment of their lives. I founded Defendant Support so I can help more people reckon with the past and adapt for a better future. 

Judges know the difference. I work from the heart and do not rely on AI.

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Client Feedback

"Brad was the best possible person I could have worked with."

S. in Texas

“My lawyers described Brad’s writing as the best they've ever seen.”

R. in Maryland

"The judge saw me—and not just another criminal standing before him."

S. in New jersey

“. . .a client will often spend time with Brad Rouse, who is the expert in written narrative. . .One unexpected feature of these narratives is how much of the story hints at a rehabilitation that...calls back to a time when confinement was about reform and salvation . . .  put all the parts together, and the buoyant takeaway for any judge reading it is that maybe his job is already done. Nothing isolates one’s crime, and all the moral dereliction that comes with it, quite like a story in which the jail time, which hasn’t even started, already seems to be receding into the past.”

The New York Times Magazine

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