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    • Media

    The Trial Penalty: Voices of Reform

    20th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference
    August 18-20, 2021 | Held Virtually

    Join NACDL’s President Martín Sabelli for a discussion with advocates who have experienced the trial penalty firsthand, serving excessive sentences after choosing to challenge their case in court.
    • Media

    Voir Dire: Part I

    Voir Dire: Part I presented by Martín Sabelli, attorney, San Francisco, CA

    Race Matters I: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice
    September 14-15, 2017 | Detroit, MI
    • Media

    Roundtable on the Trial Penalty & NACDL’s Trial Penalty Clemency Project [Engage & Exchange Series]

    Incoming NACDL President Martin Sabelli, Debevoise & Plimpton partner Judge John Gleeson (ret.), JaneAnne Murray (Director of the NACDL Trial Penalty Clemency Project), Mudasar Khan (NACDL Trial Penalty Clemency Project volunteer attorney), and Steven Logan (Manager of NACDL's Return to Freedom Project) give an overview of the trial penalty and provide an introduction to the Trial Penalty Clemency Project.

    • Media

    COVID-19 & Courts Reopening - Lessons Learned in Litigation [NACDL Engage & Exchange]

    Iris Eytan, Dru Nielsen, and special guest moderator Martin Sabelli join the Engage & Exchange Discussion for COVID-19 & Courts Reopening - Lessons Learned in Litigation. 
    • Media

    The Trial Penalty, Plea Bargains, and Saving the 6th Amendment Right to Trial [Engage & Exchange]

    The Trial Penalty, Plea Bargains, and Saving the 6th Amendment Right to Trial presented by Martín Sabelli and Dan Canon
    • Document

    Policing Body Cameras: Policies and Procedures to Safeguard the Rights of the Accused

    In response to a series of high-profile police killings of unarmed people of color, law enforcement agencies across the country began adopting body cameras as a solution to requests for more transparency and accountability. In order to study the impact of body cameras on the rights of the accused, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers established a Body Camera Task Force comprised of defense attorneys from across the country. [Released March 2017]
    • Document

    Criminal Court Reopening and Public Health in the COVID-19 Era

    NACDL: Jury Trials Not Safe Until COVID-19 Pandemic Under Control [Released June 2020]
    • News Release

    News Release ~ 01/13/2022

    National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Welcomes BOP Rule Allowing for the Release of Thousands Under the First Step Act – Washington, DC (Jan. 13, 2022) – Thousands will be released from federal prisons over the next weeks thanks to implementation of a rule created by the 2018 First Step Act. The rule, implemented today by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), allows incarcerated individuals to work toward home confinement or supervised release by completing approved Evidence-Based Recidivism Reduction (EBRR) Programs and Productive Activities (PAs).
    • News Release

    News Release ~ 03/18/2022

    Nation’s Criminal Defense Bar Again Calls on DOJ Leadership to Address Inhumane Conditions at Rikers Island – Washington, DC (March 18, 2022) – On Monday, March 14, NACDL and the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NYSACDL) delivered a request to the leadership of the Department of Justice regarding the violent, inhumane, and unconstitutional conditions persisting at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility. 

    • News Release

    News Release ~ 04/20/2022

    NACDL President on the Supreme Court’s Failure to Address Naked Racial Prejudice – Washington, DC (April 20, 2022) – NACDL President Martín Sabelli issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s failure to hear the case of Kristopher Love v. Texas:

    • News Release

    News Release ~ 04/26/2022

    National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Praises Recent Biden Administration Commutations, Pardons, and Reentry Initiatives, Calls on White House to Increase Clemency Grants – Washington, DC (April 26, 2022) – Today, the Biden administration granted three pardons, commuted 75 sentences, and announced a series of initiatives to support meaningful second chances for formerly incarcerated individuals. These initiatives include job training for those incarcerated in federal prisons and expanded access to critical services such as education, healthcare, and housing for those returning...
    • News Release

    News Release ~ 05/25/2022

    On the Second Anniversary of George Floyd’s Murder, Nation’s Criminal Defense Bar Calls for Renewed Focus on Reform – Washington, DC (May 25, 2022) – Two years ago, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, shocking the nation and setting off a renewed wave of calls for reform of police use of force against people of color.

     
    • News Release

    News Release ~ 05/31/2022

    Nation’s Defense Bar Condemns Supreme Court Decision Undermining the Right of Habeas Corpus – Washington, DC (May 31, 2022) – Last week, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion undermining the capacity of federal courts to remedy wrongful convictions in state courts. In Shinn v. Ramirez, the Supreme Court upheld two death sentences despite a record of incompetence by state-appointed habeas counsel. The Court held, under Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA)...

    • Champion Article

    From the President: Boston, Workers, and the Trial Penalty

    Expanding the Reach of Criminal Laws Without Increasing the Burdens on the Prosecution

    Many voices have sounded the alarm and are mobilizing to untangle the complex web of laws, rules, and culture that authorize coercive plea bargaining practices.
    • Champion Article

    From the President: Through the Looking Glass — Criminal Justice Without Trials

    We tell ourselves that we are protected from government abuse by a system of jury trials in which jurors decide guilt or innocence and judges determine sentences. What is the reality? We have abandoned the system of public jury trials established in the Constitution and Bill of Rights in favor of a shadow system of guilty pleas driven by the logic of prosecutorial power.