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Access to Counsel at First Appearance Policy Brief
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Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office Opens Justice System Data to Public in New Dashboard
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Principles for Continued Use of Remote Court Proceedings
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Save Black Lives: A Call for Racially-responsive Strategies and Resources for the Black Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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New data tools show how unjust the criminal justice system really is for Black New Orleanians
The New Orleans City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee Tuesday unveiled a series of new data “dashboards,” including tools that allow
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Texas Indigent Defense Commission: ACT Smart for Public Defense
ACT Smart for Public Defense is a web portal designed to help Texas jurisdictions use data and metrics to track progress
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Santa Barbara County needs more data tracking in jail population reduction, criminal justice heads say
Santa Barbara County’s criminal justice leaders, speaking at a special Board of Supervisors meeting Thursday, supported expanding diversion programs to
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Whitewashing: The Jury Box
Racial discrimination is an ever-present feature of jury selection in California. This report investigates the history, legacy, and continuing practice
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New study highlights issues of systemic bias in jury selection
Discrimination is illegal, but peremptory challenges allow the prosecution and defense to dismiss potential jurors without cause. A review of
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Texas A&M and Access to Justice Lab at Harvard Law School researchers to evaluate counsel at first appearance
Texas A&M University’s Public Policy Research Institute (PPRI) and the Access to Justice Lab at Harvard Law School (A2J Lab)
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Leading With a Public Health Response to COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails
On May 27, a group of national organizations led by the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys and the Center for HIV
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Understanding Race and Social Dominance: Seeing and Dismantling White Supremacy and Structural Anti-Black Racism
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Criminal Court Reopening and Public Health in the COVID-19 Era
NACDL recognizes that the unprecedented public health risks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic present enormous challenges for court operations especially
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Court Appearances in Criminal Proceedings Through Telepresence Identifying Research and Practice Needs to Preserve Fairness While Leveraging New Technology
Local jurisdictions, faced with caseloads of increasing complexity and cost, have adopted alternative approaches to criminal case processing — including
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The “Radical” Notion of the Presumption of Innocence
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Court Appearances in Criminal Proceedings Through Telepresence Identifying Research and Practice Needs to Preserve Fairness While Leveraging New Technology
Local jurisdictions, faced with caseloads of increasing complexity and cost, have adopted alternative approaches to criminal case processing — including
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE INDIANA PUBLIC DEFENSE SYSTEM AND ATTORNEY WORKLOAD STANDARDS
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Innovative Solutions in Public Defense: Contra Costa County
Partnering with Police to Provide Early Representation in Misdemeaner Cases: In Contra Costa County, California, most misdemeanor cases result in
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NIJ’s Research on Videoconferencing Pretrial Release Hearings
Identifying protocols that improve practices and maximize return on investment using videoconferencing to expedite pretrial release hearings for defendants who
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NIJ’s Research on Videoconferencing Pretrial Release Hearings
Videoconferencing technologies implemented in prisons and other criminal justice system settings demonstrate reduced transportation costs, increased prisoner security, expedited case
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Innovative Solutions in Public Defense: Alameda County
Piloting Public Defender Representation at Arraignment For decades, criminal justice systems nationwide have been over-reliant on locking up the accused
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How Race Impacts Who is Detained Pretrial
Being jailed before trial is no small matter: It can throw a defendant’s life into disarray and make it more
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Open Forum: A jury of your peers? Not for black men in California
In California, it’s hard to argue that the right to a jury of your peers includes black men. This year,
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California Is Considering Ending Criminal Court Fees and Wiping Out Billions in Debt
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Judge rules that St. Louis jails can’t hold inmates who can’t pay
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Court Reform: Why Simple Solutions Might Not Fail?
In this article we investigate the implementation of programs intended to ensure that defendants in criminal courts receive legal counsel
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Harris Introduces EQUAL Defense Act to Boost Pay and Resources, Limit Workload of Public Defenders
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Engaging Key System Actors in Support of The Right To Counsel
The following report summarizes the roundtables held with law enforcement officers, representatives from state administering agencies (SAAs), county officials, prosecutors,
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We’ve taken the “First Step” to reform our criminal justice system. What’s next?
Last night, I had the honor of moderating an important conversation on an issue that I’m passionate about – criminal
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{**31 NY3d at 6} OPINION OF THE COURT
Fahey, J. The answer to the question “how long is too long?” is a difficult one to resolve. However, certain
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Communicating with Justice System Stakeholders about the Right to Counsel
This guide will help you make the case for improving public defense to federal, state, and local justice system leaders
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THE RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE
This monograph on the “Right to Present a Defense” began as a chapter entitled “The Right to Compulsory Process” in
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The Fiscal Savings of Accessing the Right to Legal Counsel Within Twenty-Four Hours of Arrest
Bryan L. Sykes, University of California, Irvine Eliza Solowiej, First Defense Legal Aid, Chicago, Illinois Evelyn J. Patterson, Vanderbilt University
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Securing Reasonable Caseloads: Ethics and Law in Public Defense
By Professor Norman Lefstein About the Author Contents Foreword by William S. Sessions Preface by Robert E. Stein Acknowledgements Introduction
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Crawford v. Washington
2004- Crawford v. Washington- SCt redefined application of the right to confrontation- changed the inquiry from whether the evidence offered
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Out-of-State Witnesses and Compulsory Process
The contribution of the Nash decision as an aid to understanding what may be foreclosed from perjury prosecutions will have
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RIGHT TO SPEEDY TRIAL BY JURY, WITNESSES, COUNSEL
That leaves the right to trial by “an impartial jury.” The Court has held that this right applies whenever the