Appellate Courts

Under this grant, part of NACDL’s mission is to increase access to training resources for public defense practitioners. As the national need for training assistance is significant and NACDL cannot offer live trainings at every locale in need, NACDL is committed to creating webinars on topics of interest and import for defense attorneys to access.

CJI will help the educate judges and court staff in Louisiana about JRI changes. CJI has also volunteered to create a specialty courts best practices manual.

An NDCRC webinar that provided an overview of current Bureau of Justice Assistance initiatives to address the opioid crisis and how local jurisdictions are creating programs and leveraging resources.

The conference provided training for the adult and juvenile treatment court teams located throughout the state. NDCRC provided resources at an exhibit table to the conference attendees.

The conference provides training for the adult and juvenile treatment court teams located throughout the state. Kerwin Henderson of AU presented at a session titled, Veterans Courts National Research. Participants heard about current research regarding veteran treatment courts and will have the opportunity to ask questions about the results of American University's recently-concluded survey.

The Right to Counsel National Campaign: Charting the Path to Change

Provide travel assistance for Judge Brian MacKenzie to attend and present on a panel, Judges as Champions of the Constitutional Right to Counsel

In March 2017, NACDL provided a faculty member for the Federal Defender Services capital habeas training: “7th National Seminar on Forensic Evidence & the Criminal Law.” NACDL Senior Resource Counsel trained federal habeas corpus lawyers on the results and lessons from the FBI Microscopic Hair Comparison Analysis Review, problems with the scientific validity of hair comparison evidence, relevance to other feature comparison disciplines and litigating innocence cases. (grant travel funds were NOT needed for this)

The film "Tribal Justice" will be shown at the Annual Conference of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts. A discussion will be facilitated by Judge Claudette White and Jennifer Walter.

The panel we hosted at the conference was called "Real Talk: How to effectively communicate the importance of strong community-oriented defenders." In this session, Zoë Root and Genevieve Citrin Ray discussed their work in the Right to Counsel National Campaign and the campaign’s recently released report entitled, American Views on the Right to Counsel and Public Defenders. Building on their personal experiences working in holistic defender offices, they presented the findings of the report and discuss how community-oriented defenders can use this information.