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- 1From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNationwide, union membership numbers have been on the decline for decades. In public defense, however, an opposite trend seems to be taking hold. More and more public defender offices across the country have moved to...
- 2From:ABA Journal (Vol. 108, Issue 5)A criminal defense lawyer's client faces a barrage of negative pretrial publicity. The attorney, wanting to counteract the negativity, speaks to the press and offers a very different version of events than what's been in...
- 3From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500, 1505 (2018), the US Supreme Court held a "defendant has the right to insist that counsel refrain from admitting guilt, even when counsel's experienced-based view is that confessing...
- 4From:Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION In an age of mass incarceration, (1) the overwhelming majority of criminal cases end in plea deals. (2) It is thus unsurprising that plea deals are the first decision in the criminal process that the...
- 5From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis spring. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson made history as the first Black woman to be nominated and confirmed to serve on the highest Court in the nation. Judge Jackson's ascension to the Supreme Court shattered many...
- 6From:Defense Counsel Journal (Vol. 89, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI was feeling a bit uneasy when I sat down at the kitchen table of the modest Florida home. I was a young lawyer, and the deponent's wife recently died in a horrific car wreck. The widower treated me with kindness, as...
- 7From:TYL (Vol. 26, Issue 4)Markus Funk's accomplishments run long; the space here could not do his resume justice. In fact, you'll have to find the majority of this interview at http://ambar.org/markus-funk-interview. Known for his work in...
- 8From:University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Vol. 170, Issue 6)INTRODUCTION Law professors have penned essays about criminal justice reform for decades. In some ways, reform is an organizing scholarly orientation for people in the legal professoriate that can come in many flavors....
- 9From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 4)INTRODUCTION The federal criminal trial rate in the United States was 14% in 1990 and 5% in the year 2000. (1) In 2019, it was 2.4% (2) nationally and 0.7% in the District of Arizona, where this Author practices. (3)...
- 10From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 59, Issue 2)Criminal defense attorneys often engage in plea negotiations on behalf of their clients without knowledge of material, exculpatory information that the prosecution may possess, placing the defense at an unfair...
- 11From:ABA Journal (Vol. 108, Issue 1)
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A low-income defendant. An overworked public defender. An underresourced legal system and a cash-strapped local government. Most people wouldn't look at this scenario and immediately think "opportunity," but that's... - 12From:ABA Journal (Vol. 108, Issue 1)During their senior year as computer science majors at the University of Chicago in 2019, Leslie Jones-Dove and Devshi Mehrotra, now both 24, partnered on a class project requiring them to generate a business idea...
- 13From:Washington University Law Review (Vol. 99, Issue 3)ABSTRACT Focus on the deleterious effects of the privatization of functions in both the criminal adjudicative system and criminal legal system has increased on both the scholarship and policymaking fronts. Much of this...
- 14From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 2)"[E]very thirty years or so, as this country's distinctively intransigent intersection of race, crime, and poverty sparks another round of politicized and international uproar, the right to counsel lurches in a new...
- 15From:Stanford Law Review (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the 2010 landmark decision Padilla v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel demands that criminal defense attorneys inform their clients of adverse immigration consequences that...
- 16From:Prosecutor, Journal of the National District Attorneys Association (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe National Rural Justice Collaborative Advisory Council recently selected nine of the most impactful rural justice programs in America and will help them share their strengths nationwide. Until now, rural communities...
- 17From:Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Nizar Trabelsi is currently held in jail on charges of conspiring to kill Americans abroad, conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, and supporting a foreign terrorist organization (Al-Qaeda).' He...
- 18From:ABA Journal (Vol. 104, Issue 10)When Danielle Ponder was 16, two things happened that set her on her life's course: Her dad gave her a guitar and her older brother went to prison. She grew up to become a criminal defense attorney and an...
- 19From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDear Allison: I am frustrated. I have been a government lawyer for many years, both prosecutor and public defender. And while I work hard and try my best, I receive little to no recognition. As a prosecutor, I was...
- 20From:ABA Journal (Vol. 107, Issue 2)Kelley Henry hadn't been on an airplane for nearly seven months when she learned the Department of Justice had set an execution date for Lisa Montgomery, who was the only woman on the federal government's death row. It...