NACDL - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

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SCJN Materials

• Welcome Letter: 19th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference: Sharing Strategies and Strengthening the Movement

• NACDL State Advocacy Resources

• NACDL Legislative Action Alert Collaboration Form

• Sign up for Action Alerts

• Meet NACDL's Advocacy Team 

Day 1: Monday, August 17th 

Lessons Learned: Combatting Misinformation Around Bail Reform - Case Study on the New York Bail Reform Pushback
1:00-2:00pm ET

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• Kevin M. Stadelmaier Testimony to the Republican Senate Task Force on Bail Reform

• Cash bail in New York: Why the new reforms plummeted in the opinion of voters by Joseph Spector, Democrat & Chronicle (Feb. 2020)

• Don’t Let Fearmongering Drive Bail Policy, Vera, (Jan. 2020)—collection of resources 

• Law professors condemn bail reform ‘fear-mongering' in letter to local media by David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle, (Jan. 2020)

• Bail reform supporters release fact sheet to dispel “opposition fear mongering”, WRGB Albany (Feb. 2020)

• Cutting through the fear-mongering on bail reform by Barbara Kelley, The Evening Tribune (Nov. 2019)

• NACDL Reports
  • Harris County Pretrial Advocacy
  • Wisconsin Pretrial Advocacy
  • New Jersey Pretrial Advocacy
  • Colorado Pretrial Advocacy

When Robocop Becomes Reality: Confronting Technology in the Criminal Justice System
2:30-3:30pm ET

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• Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition by Tawana Petty, Wired (Jul. 2020)

• A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration, AISP (2020)

• In the Black Lives Matter Era, Police Drones Must Make Their Final Landing by Dennis Flores and State Senator Jessica Ramos, Gothamist (Jul. 2020) 

• Gang Takedowns in the De Blasio Era: The Dangers of 'Precision Policing' by Josmar Trujillo and Alex S. Vitale, Policing & Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College (2019)

• Safe or Just Surveilled?: Tawana Petty on the Fight Against Facial Recognition Surveillance, Logic Magazine (May 2020)

• The Business of Police Surveillance, NPR (June 2020)

• Detroit's facial recognition contract set to expire - here's a look back at the last 3 years, WXYZ Detroit (Jul. 2020)

• Why NYPD's 'Predictive Policing' Should Scare You by Josmar Trujillo, City Limits (Jan. 2015)

• Green Chairs, Not Green Lights

• NACDL Report: The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age

Policing in America: Policing the Police
4:00-5:00pm ET

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• PowerPoint: Law Enforcement Accountability Database Project prepared by Julie Ciccolini (Aug. 2020)

• List of states where police discipline records are confidential or where transparency is restricted prepared by Rebecca Brown (Aug. 2020)

• 3 Ways Lack of Police Accountability Contributes to Wrongful Convictions by Rebecca Brown, Innocence Project (Aug. 2020)

• The NYPD is Withholding Evidence from Investigations into Police Abuse by Eric Umansky and Mollie Simon, ProPublica (Aug. 2020)

• NY 50-a Repeal Law

• The Integrity of Our Convictions: Holding Stakeholders Accountable in an Era of Criminal Justice Reform, Barry Scheck (2019) - See pages xiii-xxv for discussion on police misconduct databases

• It’s Time to Make Police Disciplinary Records Public by Rebecca Brown, Innocence Project (Jul. 2020)

• New Jersey Introduces SB2656, Bill That Would Expose Police Misconduct by Michelle Feldman, Innocence Project (Jul. 2020)

Day 2: Tuesday, August 18th

Shifting the Narrative: Criminal Justice Reform & Storytelling
1:00-2:00pm ET

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Marsy's Law
2:30-3:30pm ET

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• Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) Statement Opposing SJR 8, Submitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Feb. 19, 2020. 

• Why Crime Victim Service Providers Oppose "Marsy's Law"

• What Legislators Could Do to Enhance Victims' Rights Instead of a Constitutional Amendment

• Crime Survivors Speak Report, Alliance for Safety and Justice (2016)

• Who Will Help Me? Domestic Violence Survivors Speak Out About Law Enforcement Responses, National Domestic Violence Hotline (2015)

• How Do Survivors Define Success - Report and Recommendations, Full Frame Initiative (2014)

• Real Justice: Victims' Rights Delivered Report and Recommendations by Heather Warnken, California Crime Victims Assistance Association and District Attorneys Association (2012)

• North Dakota Marsy's Law Materials (Includes items below):

  • North Dakota Constitution Article I Section 25 (Marsy's Law)
  • North Dakota Campaign Finance Online: Marsy's Law for North Dakota LLC; No on 3
  • Office of Attorney General Guidance on Marsy's Law
  • Marsy's Card
  • Marsy's Law often invoked to withhold officers' names, April Baumgarten, July 22, 2018. 
  • Marsy's Law raised in arguments over change of judge in daycare child abuse case, Andrea Johnson, Minot Daily News, June 11, 2020. 
     

• Kentucky Senate Bill 15, Marsy's Law (2020 Regular Session)

• Wisconsin Justice Initiative (WJI): "Marsy's Law" amendment kills fair trial safeguard

  • WJI Brief in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Declaratory Judgment and Permanent Injunction (Filed 06-15-2020)

• Constitutional Amendment Relating to Crime Victims' Rights, Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (Includes below):

  • Question 1 Ballot Language (p.1)
  • Enumerated rights included in amendment (p. 4)
     

• A Consequence of Marsy’s Law Secrecy: Less Accountability for Police Who Use Force | Editorial, Orlando Sentinel (July 2020)

• Criminal Defense Lawyers Sue To Keep New Version of Marsy’s Law Off the Ballot by Andrew Wolfson, Louisville Courier Journal (July 2020)

• A Florida Cop Killed Tony McDade. Now He’s Hiding Behind A Law Meant to Protect Victims by Laura Thompson, Mother Jones (June 2020)

• “Marsy’s Law” Amendment Kills Fair Trial Safeguard; Brief Calls Measure “Deceptively Sweeping”, Wisconsin Justice Initiative (June 2020)

• Constitutionality of SB 1437 Reaffirmed in Second District Court of Appeal (Marsy's law involved in arguments against constitutionality of law amending felony murder rule, The Davis Vanguard (Apr. 2020)

• We All Agree, Marsy’s Law Offers Only Empty Promises, by Shane Young, Heather Gatnarek, Scott Hofstra, Jan Skavdahl, and Sen. John Schickel, Forward Kentucky (March 2020)

• Victims’ Rights Amendment Marsy’s Law Creates Too Much Secrecy, Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board (Feb. 2020)

• Marsy’s Law Is Not What It Seems, Subject To Cross (Feb. 2020)

• Defendant in Murder Case Says Marsy’s Law Is Keeping Him from Preparing for Trial, by Jamie Kelly, Williston Herald (Feb. 2020)

• An Ohio City Is Declaring Itself A ‘Crime Victim’ of a False Police Report and Demanding Restitution by Scott Shackford, Reason (Jan. 2020)

• Why Victims’ Rights Laws are a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing by Matthew Harwood, The American Conservative (June 2019)

• Can Victims’ Rights Go Too Far? by Matthew Harwood, Reason (Apr. 2019)

• We’re Victims’ Rights Advocates, And We Opposed Marsy’s Law, ACLU-TN (May 2018)

• Sen. John Schickel: Marsy’s Law Does Not Belong in The KY Constitution; For Change Turn to Legislation, Northern Kentucky Tribune (Nov. 2018)

• ‘Victims’ Rights’ Proposals Like Marsy’s Law Undermine Due Process by Jeanne Hruska, ACLU (May 2018)

• How Has Marsy’s Law Changed South Dakota? by John Hult, Argus Leader (Nov. 2017)

• OC Judge Vacates DUI Crash Sentence, Sends Back to Trial as Victim Seeks Harsher Penalty, ABC 7 (Dec. 2017)

• Supreme Court: Marsy’s Law Initiative Was Unconstitutional by Seaborn Larson, Great Falls Tribune (Nov. 2017)

Data Driven Policies: Criminal Justice Data Collection
4:00-5:00pm ET

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• Data Analysis is Driving Justice Reforms by Alison Lawrence, State Legislatures Magazine (Jul. 2020)

• Colorado Data Collection Statutes prepared by Rebecca Wallace (Aug. 2020), includes reports, articles, and reform laws related to:

  • 2011 Solitary Confinement Data Collection Bill

  • 2019 Jail Data Collection Bill

  • 2020 Police Accountability Bill

• Colorado Pretrial Assessment Tool (CPAT) Validation Study Final Report by Victora A. Terrapova and Jyle C. Ward, University of Northern Colorado (Jul. 2020)

• Virginia Senate Bill No. 723 (Data Bill Original, 2020 Session)

• Virginia Senate Bill No.723 Fiscal Impact Statement (2020 Session)

• Substitute for Virginia Senate Bill No. 723 (Proposed by House Committee for Courts of Justice, 2020 Session)

• Arizona HB 2156 (Reporting Requirements, 2020 Second Regular Session)

• Florida Statute § 900.05, Criminal justice data collection 

• Connecticut Public Act No. 19-59: An Act Increasing Fairness and Transparency in the Criminal Justice System (Enacted 2019)

• First Analysis of Prosecutor Data (Pa 19-59) Report to the Criminal Justice Commission

• Bias against Black people found in Colorado bail reform tool by John Herrick, Colorado News (Aug. 2020)

• Why I Ended the Horror of Long-Term Solitary in Colorado's Prisons by Rick Raemisch, ACLU (Dec. 2018)

Day 3: Wednesday, August 19th

Shifting the Narrative: Combatting Life Imprisonment & Other Extreme Sentences
1:00-2:00pm ET

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• Survey: A Majority of Voters Support Review Of Extreme Sentences by Vaidya Gullapalli, The Appeal (Feb. 24, 2020)

• What’s the Meaning of “Life” When Sentencing Kids? by Eli Hager, The Marshall Project (Jan. 30, 2020)

• Confronting our nation's past to build racial justice, The CFSY (Jul. 2020)

• SCOTUS Takes Up D.C. Sniper Case - And The Fate of Juvenile Life Sentences by Meghna Chakrabarti and Dorey Scheimer, WBUR (2019)

• Why America Needs to Break Its Addiction to Long Prison Sentences by Ben Miller and Daniel S. Harawa, Politco (Sept. 2019)

• Review: Life Imprisonment: A Global Human Rights Analysis by Dirk Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton; review by Alison Liebling (Sept. 2019)

• Henry Montgomery Paved the Way for Other Juvenile Lifers to Go Free. Now 72, He May Never get the Same Chance by Liliana Segura, The Intercept (June 2019)

• The Case for Capping All Prison Sentences at 20 Years by German Lopez, Vox (Feb. 12, 2019)

• Eight Keys to Mercy: How to Shorten Excessive Prison Sentences by Jorge Renaud, Prison Policy Initiative (November 2018)

• Long-Term Sentences: Time to Reconsider the Scale of Punishment by Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project, Published in UMKC Law Review Vol. 87:1 (November 2018)

• The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences by Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis, The Sentencing Project (December 4, 2018)

• Why More States Are Giving Juvenile Offenders A Second Chance by John Colin Marston, The Christian Science Monitor (2018)

• Why Are We Sentencing Children to Life in Prison Without Parole? by Vincent M. Southerland and Jody Kent Lavy, Newsweek (2017)

• We All Pay: Mississippi’s Harmful Habitual Laws by Laura Bennett, FWD.us (November 18, 2019)

• A Matter of Time: The Causes and Consequences of Rising Time Served in America’s Prisons: How Policy Decisions Keep People in Prison by Leigh Courtney, Sarah Eppler-Epstein, Elizabeth Pelletier, Ryan King, and Serena Lei, Urban Institute (Jul. 2017)

• Still Life: America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences by Ashley Nellis, Ph.D., The Sentencing Project (May 3, 2017)

• Extreme Prison Sentences: Legal and Normative Consequences by Melissa Hamilton, University of Surrey, Cardozo Law Review 38:59 (Jan. 2016)

• False Hope: How Parole Systems Fail Youth Serving Extreme Sentences by Sarah Mehta, American Civil Liberties Union (Nov. 2016)

• Arrested as teens, three men exonerated after 36 years behind bars for wrongful murder conviction by Tom Jackman, The Washington Post (Nov. 2019) 

• Vermont Senate Votes to Restrict Sentences of Life Without Parole by Colin Flanders, Seven Days (Mar. 2020)

• Incarcerated Children's Advocacy Network (ICAN)

• NACDL Report: The Trial Penalty: The Sixth Amendment Right to Trial on the Verge of Extinction and How to Save it

First Steps for State Sentencing Reform
2:30-3:30pm ET

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• Legislative Update: House Bill 1 and Senate Bill 3, Ohio Justice & Policy Center

• Ohio SB 3- Passed Senate  

• Florida SB 1308: Second Look Act- Died in Appropriations Mar. 24, 2020

• Tennessee Passes Drug-Free School Zone Reforms Following Reason Investigation by C.J Ciaramella, Reason (June 2020)

• COVID-19 leads to ‘hyper-acceleration’ of some criminal justice reforms in Tennessee by Adam Tamburin, Nashville Tennessean (Apr. 2020)

• We hope to finally repeal mandatory minimum sentences this summer by Sandra Cunningham and Nellie Pou, NJ.com (July 2020)

• New Jersey COVID-19 Bill Could Help Reduce the Harshness of the Criminal Justice System by Ellison Berryhill, The Appeal (Aug. 2020)

• Reframe Studios: Sentence Mitigation Films

Parole and Probation Reform
4:00-5:00pm ET

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• Parole and Probation Reform, California - The Last Ten Years by Stephen A. Munkelt (2020)

• Report and Video: Revoked: How Probation and Parole Feed Mass Incarceration in the United States, Human Rights Watch and ACLU (2020)

• Delaware’s Broken Probation System: The Urgent Need to Reform Community Supervision in the First State, ACLU Delaware (Aug. 2020)

• Confined and Costly: How Supervision Violations are Filling Prisons and Burdening Budgets, Justice Center at The Council of State Governments (June 2019)

• We should listen to Rayshard Brooks about probation by Vincent Schiraldi, USA Today (June 2020)

• Paying on Probation: How Financial Sanctions Intersect with Probation to Target, Trap, and Punish People Who Cannot Pay, Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law School (June 2020)

• Racial Inequities in New York Parole Supervision, Columbia University Justice Lab (Mar. 2020)

• New data: Low incomes – but high fees – for people on probation by Mack Finkel, Prison Policy Initiative (Apr. 2019)

• Grading the parole release systems of all 50 states by Jorge Renaud, Prison Policy Initiative (Feb. 2019)

• Community Supervision Too Often Leads to Incarceration: Bold reforms are needed to transform probation and parole by Jake Horowitz and Amy Solomon, PEW (Jan. 2019)

• Policy Reforms Can Strengthen Community Supervision, PEW (Apr. 2020)

• Rayshard Brooks Vows To 'Keep Going Until I Make It' In Interview Before His Death, NBC News NOW (June 2020)

• California AB 1950 (2019-2020 Regular Session)- Probation Caps

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