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Presented by Rene Valladares, Federal Public Defender for the District of Nevada
Race Data Matters: Using Expert Testimony and Social Science Data about Discriminatory Policing to Win Pretrial Motions: Part II presented by Alison Siegler, Clinical Law Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Race Matters I: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice September 14-15, 2017 | Detroit, MI
Panel from the 2020 Presidential Summit and Sentencing Symposium, co-hosted with the Georgetown University Law Center American Criminal Law Review
Misunderstood & Underused: The Rules of Evidence You're Missing Pt II [Engage & Exchange Discussion] (featuring Cheryl D. Stein)
Misunderstood & Underused: The Rules of Evidence You're Missing Pt I [Engage & Exchange Discussion]
Holding Law Enforcement Accountable by Expediting the Review of Body-Camera Footage, Jail Calls, and Other Digital Discovery presented by Devshi Mehrotra, CEO and co-founder, JusticeText; and Jonathan Cable, Oregon defense attorney
The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Objections with Rene Valladares
Rene Valladares provides a roadmap for identifying and developing strategies for the evidence issues all defense lawyers face – including a framework to addressing relevance/prejudice, character/bad acts, privileges, opinion testimony, and more!
The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Hearsay Part II presented by Rene Valladares
The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Hearsay Part I presented by Rene Valladares
The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Character Evidence and Impeachment Part II presented by Rene Valladares
The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Character Evidence and Impeachment Part I presented by Rene Valladares
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is pleased to submit our comments on the proposed amendments to Rules 611, 613, 804 and 1006 of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
This month Maneka Sinha reviews When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule by Thomas L. Dybdahl.
Many lawyers believe that they cannot cite helpful provisions of the Justice Manual in support of their argument and against the government. It is true that courts invariably hold that Department of Justice guidelines and policies do not create enforceable rights, but nothing prevents lawyers from arguing that relevant provisions of the Justice Manual are persuasive authority.
