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NACDL is committed to enhancing the capacity of the criminal defense bar to safeguard fundamental constitutional rights.
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NACDL envisions a society where all individuals receive fair, rational, and humane treatment within the criminal legal system.
NACDL’s mission is to serve as a leader, alongside diverse coalitions, in identifying and reforming flaws and inequities in the criminal legal system, and redressing systemic racism, and ensuring that its members and others in the criminal defense bar are fully equipped to serve all accused persons at the highest level.
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is among the least understood and yet among the most important mental health issues for criminal defense lawyers. As many as 6% of the population carries a diagnosis of BPD and the criteria of this mental health issue provides profound understanding regarding the criminal defendant's decision-making, erratic behaviors, emotional instability, interpersonal problems, impulsivity, depression and low self-esteem, and related matters.
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) is currently accepting proposals from individuals to serve as an independent contractor for various projects related to NACDL's Capital Case Litigation Initiative (CCLI).
NACDL encourages counsel not to abdicate their responsibility to provide effective representation to their clients and to continue to make a full record of work that cannot be achieved during the pandemic. NACDL supports its members and others who adhere to fundamental capital practice standards during this pandemic and refuse to undertake substandard in-person work.
Amicus curiae brief of the Child Welfare League of America, the Juvenile Law Center, and NACDL in support of petitioners.
