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Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Due Process Institute as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner (On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari).
Letter to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice & Procedure regarding proposed rule changes to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure habeas corpus rules.
Comments to the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs regarding proposed regulations in capital cases to address competent and well-funded counsel, post-conviction review, wrongful conviction, and racial disparity issues.
Brief of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner-Appellant.
President Gerald B. Lefcourt's written statement to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts regarding misconduct in FBI labs that interferes with criminal cases, revealed in a Department of Justice Inspector General's report.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of petitioner.
Brief of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner.
Whether state supreme court’s denial of post-conviction relief was decision “on the merits” for federal post-conviction purposes where state court denied relief without comment.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Federal Defenders and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of Petitioner.
Supreme Court Declines to Re-impose Death Sentence - Washington, DC (May 21, 2007) – The U.S. Supreme Court today dismissed the state’s appeal of a lower court decision which threw out a Missouri prisoner’s death sentence. A majority of the Court, in an unsigned “per curiam” opinion, relied on an argument made by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, in a “friend of the court” brief, that the trial court misinterpreted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) and federal case law when it dismissed death row inmate William Weaver’s...
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of respondent.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of the petition for certiorari.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of the petition for certiorari.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Innocence Network in support of petitioner.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
