Provides an overview of every aspect of defending a federal capital prosecution including discussions of issues common to many cases as well as a comprehensive list of helpful resources.
Suggested Reading and Useful Information
Provides an overview of every aspect of defending a federal capital prosecution including discussions of issues common to many cases as well as a comprehensive list of helpful resources. The entire book can be ordered here.
Click here to read the Review of Capital Punishment in 2022-2023, the death penalty chapter in the forthcoming ABA publication, The State of Criminal Justice 2023.
This article is from the upcoming "The State of Criminal Justice 2023," published by the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, to be published in late July 2023. All rights reserved. For information on the book and orders, please click here.
Jeffrey Fisher, Associate Professor at Stanford Law School and lead counsel for the petitioners in U.S. Supreme Court in Crawford v. Washington, Davis v. Washington, and Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, has created this useful outline that incorporates post-Crawford decisions through September 18, 2009.
Russ Stetler, National Mitigation Coordinator for the federal death penalty projects from 2005 until 2020, reflects on the role of mitigation in providing life-saving, humanizing evidence to which every client is entitled under the Sixth Amendment, arming juries with the evidence needed to reach a reasoned moral decision, and create an archive of individual stories to help us and future generations understand acts of murder through the lens of public health and social policy.
Provides a list of Circuit and Supreme Court opinions involving at least one point favorable to criminal defendants. The cases are organized by topic.
Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons, worked against unimaginable odds to redeem himself, exposed a profoundly corrupt penal system, and fought to reform it.
The purpose of the National Litigation Support Blog is to share information regarding new and existing litigation support technology tailored to the interests of federal public defender staff and court-appointed CJA panel attorneys. Besides facilitating communication among that community and the litigation support staff, the blog will highlight how people are taking advantage of different types of litigation support software programs and services and will make available short, step-by-step guides and videos on how to use common applications.
This article, published in the Journal of Constitutional Law (Vol. 12:1), explores the changing standards for pursing the federal death penalty in non-death penalty states and places into context the relatively recent phenomenon of geographical uniformity in the application of the federal death penalty. Click here for a link to the PDF of this article.
In this Report the American Law Institute, which in 1962 created the framework for the modern death penalty in the Model Penal Code, details its decision to withdraw the death penalty from the MPC "in light of the current intractable institutional and structural obstacles to ensuring a minimally adequate system for administering capital punishment."
This outline collects and summarizes post-Kumho authority. It is divided into two major areas: the history and origins of federal expert jurisprudence and the application of this authority to specific fields of expertise.