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A new NACDL report outlines the ways in which Marsy’s Law, the colloquial name for a model Victims’ Bill of Rights, undermines fundamental due process rights.
23rd Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference August 14-15, 2024 | Held Virtually
The Jacob Burns Ethics Center at Cardozo Law School hosted a conference on November 15-16, 2009, with leading professionals and scholars who presented their viewpoints on Brady and other disclosure obligations. This conference explored what are the best systems for information management; what kinds of training, oversight and systems of accountability are the best practices; and how we can encourage a commitment to those practices.
The United States Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) was created in 1975 as one response to the ethical abuses and misconduct committed by Justice Department officials during the Watergate scandal. OPR’s mission is to hold accountable Justice Department attorneys, and law enforcement agents who work with those attorneys, who abuse their power as prosecutors or otherwise violate the high ethical standards required of the nation’s chief law enforcement agency. OPR’s mission is also to exonerate those who have been wrongfully accused of misconduct.
Bruce A. Green, Beyond Training Prosecutors About Their Disclosure Obligations: Can Prosecutors' Offices Learn from Their Lawyers' Mistakes?, 31 Cardozo L. Rev. 2161. This is a work from the Cardozo Law Review Symposium New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations: What Really Works? (2009).
Ellen Yaroshefsky, Foreword: New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations: What Really Works?, 31 Cardozo L. Rev. 1943. This is a work from the Cardozo Law Review Symposium New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations: What Really Works? (2009).
Report of the Working Groups on Best Practices, New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations, 31 Cardozo L. Rev. 1961. This is a work from the Cardozo Law Review Symposium New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations: What Really Works? (2009).
Brief for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in support of appellants and urging reversal.
