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Publications, Links, and Resources

PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

Summaries of cases that cite to the 2003 ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel In Capital Cases

Summaries of cases that cite to the 1989 ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel In Capital Cases

Summaries of cases that cite to the ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel In Capital Cases (2003 and 1989)

List of cases that cite to the ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel In Capital Cases (2003 and 1989)

List of cases that cite to the 1989 ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel In Capital Cases

List of cases that cite to the 2003 ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel In Capital Cases

Guidelines Implementation Fact Sheet

ABA Human Rights Magazine, Spring 2007: The Death Penalty

ABA Criminal Justice Magazine, Fall 2007: Mental Health and Criminal Justice System

2003 ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Counsel in Death Penalty Cases

1989 ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Counsel in Death Penalty Cases

A List of State and Federal Cases Citing to the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice

Excerpted articles on pro bono death penalty representation from the Toledo Law Review, Spring 2004 issue

Hofstra Law Review: containing the 2003 ABA Guidelines, commentary, and related articles

Report of Commission on Capital Punishment, Illinois

Gideon's Broken Promise: America's Continuing Quest for Equal Justice (ABA SCLAID)

State by State Indigent Defense Studies and Reports

Police Experiences with Recording Custodial Interrogations (Center for Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University)

The Death Penalty in Black and White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides (Death Penalty Information Center report)

State Death Penalty Assessment Reports from ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Project

Annual death penalty statistics for 2006 from Amnesty International

National Legal Aid & Defender Association, Nat’l Study Commission on Defense Services, Guidelines for Legal Defense Systems in the United States Final Report (1976)

Links

Death Penalty Information Center

Habeas Assistance and Training

Probono.net/deathpenalty

Federal Habeas Corpus Review

Capital Defense Weekly

Center on Wrongful Convictions

Texas Defender Service

The Innocence Project

Equal Justice Initiative

Southern Center for Human Rights

Legal and Other Resources for Prisoners on the Web

Boalt Hall's Resources to Lethal Injection Claims

ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: Providing Defense Services

Upcoming Training and Conferences

For a list of excellent training programs for defense counsel and mitigation specialists go to Capdefnet’s website: http://www.capdefnet.org/fdprc/contents/shared_files/upcoming_seminars/upcoming.htm

2008 Capital Defense Trainings

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