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During its 2023-2024 Term, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed criminal penalties for people who are homeless; blocked the ATF’s regulation of bump stocks; ended Chevron deference, a landmark doctrine of administrative review; and decided that U.S. presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for core constitutional acts taken during their tenure in office. Criminal defense lawyers will talk about these cases for years to come.
State of Ohio v. Tara Hollingshead CT2022-0031
Powerpoint slides by Kim Burroughs and Kandra Roberts. Presented at the NACDL Post-Dobbs Defender Skills Summit in July 2023
Prosecution of material substance use
Brief for Professors Stephen Smith, Hadar Aviram, John Burkoff, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner.
Comments to the Department of Justice National Security Division responding to the department’s request for suggestions on clarifying and modernizing the implementing regulations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA).
Brief for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners (in support of petition for writ of certiorari).
Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents.
Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellee.
Brief of Amicus Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Support of Defendants-Appellants.
Brief for Amicus Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Support of Petition for Rehearing or Rehearing En Banc.
