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NACDL's renowned journal, The Champion magazine, offers timely, informative articles written for and by criminal defense lawyers, featuring the latest developments in search and seizure laws, DUI/DWI, grand jury proceedings, habeas, the exclusionary rule, death penalty, RICO, federal sentencing guidelines, forfeiture, white collar crime, and more. The Champion is published ten times per year.

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June 2017

Learn how to investigate a DWI case inexpensively, fight witness tampering, and conduct an internet investigation.

 

 
Issue Contents
Title  Author  
From the President: HeroesBarry J. Pollack
Inside NACDL: Imagining a World Without the Trial Penalty: NACDL’s Next Major Reform InitiativeNorman L. Reimer
NACDL News: Attorney General Sessions Issues Retrograde Charging Policy; Seeks Return to 20th Century’s So-Called ‘War on Drugs’ and the Age of Mass IncarcerationIvan J. Dominguez, Ezra Dunkle-Polier, and Alexandra Funk
NACDL News: Bonnie Hoffman Appointed NACDL Public Defense DirectorIvan J. Dominguez, Ezra Dunkle-Polier, and Alexandra Funk
NACDL News: Attorney General Sessions Moves Against the Independence and Integrity of Forensic ScienceIvan J. Dominguez, Ezra Dunkle-Polier, and Alexandra Funk
NACDL News: Collateral Consequences Event Held on Capitol HillIvan J. Dominguez, Ezra Dunkle-Polier, and Alexandra Funk
NACDL News: Board Member Nellie King Receives Leadership AwardIvan J. Dominguez, Ezra Dunkle-Polier, and Alexandra Funk
NACDL News: Stakeholders, Experts Propose Court Reforms to Improve Quality of JusticeDiane DePietropaolo Price
Affiliate NewsGerald Lippert
NACDL® 2017 Election ProceduresNACDL
I Know What You Did Last Summer: A User’s Guide for Internet InvestigationsSean D. O’Brien and Quinn C. O’Brien
Investigating a DWI Case on the CheapJohn Webb
Fighting Governmental Witness Tampering - (Or, You Can Have Our Defense Witnesses When You Pry Them From Our Cold, Dead Hands)Kevin Sali and John Robb
Practice Points: The General Credibility Instruction: We Can Do BetterLisa J. Steele
Search & Seizure CommentaryMarc S. Raspanti and Douglas E. Roberts
Capital CasesMadeline S. Cohen
Book Review: People Wasn’t Made To Burn - A True Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in ChicagoMaureen L. Rowland
Book Review: Sisters in Law - How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the WorldAllen Bentley
Book Review: Divergent Paths - The Academy and the JudiciaryLeonardo M. Aldridge

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