This episode of We Don’t Have to Choose with Mary Moriarty features Arlington County Prosecutor Parisa Dehgahni-Tafti and Philidelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.

Parisa Dehghani-Tafti is the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Arlington County and the City of Falls Church. Parisa was first elected to a four-year term in November 2019, followed by being elected to her second consecutive term in 2023 where she will serve until 2027. She came to the Office of Commonwealth’s Attorney with a twenty-year record of criminal justice reform as an innocence protection attorney, a public defender, and a law professor. Parisa sought the Office because, in her own words, "I always knew what I hoped for in a justice system, and so I finally decided to live inside that hope." Prior to being elected Commonwealth’s Attorney, Parisa served as an innoce ...