The Criminal Docket

Welcome to NACDL's podcast series, "The Criminal Docket." NACDL is the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is well-known to many as "Liberty's Last Champion."

Each episode of "The Criminal Docket" explores important items on the criminal legal agenda, in-depth, with top leaders in the legal practice, public policy, journalism, academia, and others whose lives intersect with the criminal legal system.

 

Current Episode

  • Ep.64 – Interview with Alabama criminal defense attorney Richard S. Jaffe...

Previous Episodes

  • Ep.63 – Interview with Founder & Executive Director of Civil Rights Corps Alec Karakatsanis...

  • Ep.62 – Interview: NYU Professor Rachel E. Barkow, Author of "Prisoners of Politics..."

  • Ep.61 – Televerde, the Arouet Foundation, and Second Chances for Women Coming Out of Incarceration

  • Ep.60 – Federal Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton’s Important New Book, "51 Imperfect Solutions..."

  • Ep.59 – Criminal Discovery Reform Efforts in Virginia

  • Ep.58 – NAACP President & CEO Derrick Johnson on Criminal Justice Reform

  • Ep.57 – The Right to Counsel: A Conversation with Utah Judge Michael W. Kwan

  • Ep.56 – Forthcoming Documentary: "In The Executioner’s Shadow"

  • Ep.55 – "The Feminine Sixth: Women for the Defense"

  • Ep.54 – "The War on Kids," an Essential New Book by Professor Cara Drinan

  • Ep.53 – South Carolina's Sixth Amendment-Free Zones

  • Ep.52 – NACDL's First Amendment Strike Force and Mass Defense Unit

  • Ep.51 – Packingham v. North Carolina: Collateral Consequences at the High Court

  • Ep.50 – Professor Suja A. Thomas on "The Missing American Jury"

  • Ep.49 – United States v. FedEx Corp.: The Billion Dollar-plus Criminal Case that Simply Wasn't

  • Ep.48 – United States v. Clay: A Case Study in Overcriminalization

  • Ep.47 – Harry C. Alford, President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce

  • Ep.46 – Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “Guantánamo Diary”

  • Ep.45 – The Fishy Case of Yates v. United States Now Before the U.S. Supreme Court

  • Ep.44 – "Not Guilty: The Unlawful Prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens" By Rob Cary

  • Ep.43 – Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. Addresses NACDL Annual Meeting and Seminar

  • Ep.42 – Criminal Justice and the Media: Covering Appellate Decisions

  • Ep.41 – Criminal Justice and the Media: Covering Trials

  • Ep.40 – Criminal Justice and the Media: Covering Criminal Justice Policy

  • Ep.39 – Criminal Justice and the Media: Introduction

  • Ep.38 – Investigator Marty Bugbee on Your Digital Trail

  • Ep.37 – Human Rights Watch Report on The Trial Penalty in Federal Drug Cases

  • Ep.36 – Congress’s Overcriminalization Task Force

  • Ep.35 – Professor Norman Lefstein on the Federal Indigent Defense Crisis

  • Ep.34 - Groundbreaking Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities-Part III

  • Ep.33 - Groundbreaking Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities-Part II

  • Ep.32 - Stingrays, Pings and Triangulation – Oh my!

  • Ep.31 - Groundbreaking Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

  • Ep.30 - NACDL’s Domestic Drone Information Center

  • Ep.29 - Issues in Child Pornography Law & Sentencing

  • Ep.28 - Gideon at 50: New Indigent Defense System Research

  • Ep.27 - NACDL's "Getting Scholarship Into Court Project"

  • Ep.26 - A Representative NACDL CLE Program

  • Ep.25 - NACDL's Restoration of Rights Database

  • Ep.24 - Bail and the Presumption of Innocence

  • Ep.23 - Eugene Jarecki's "The House I Live In"

  • Ep.22 - Dog Sniffs at the Supreme Court - Part Two

  • Ep.21 - Dog Sniffs at the Supreme Court - Part One

  • Ep.20 - Missouri Public Defender Caseload Litigation

  • Ep.19 - NACDL President Steven D. Benjamin

  • Ep.18 - NACDL President Lisa Wayne Reflects on Her Term

  • Ep.17 - SCOTUS Review with Stanford Law Professor Pamela S. Karlan

  • Ep.16 - "Disrobed," a new book by Judge Frederic Block

  • Ep.15 - Weekly News Roundup

  • Ep.14 - Miller and Alvarez

  • Ep.13 - Historic Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement

  • Ep.12 - State Legislative Affairs Update

  • Ep.11 - The Benefits of NACDL Membership

  • Ep.10 - The Execution of Carlos DeLuna

  • Ep.9 - The Crisis of Overcriminalization in America

  • Ep.8 - Guantanamo Update with Mason Clutter

  • Ep.7 - When Lying is a Crime

  • Ep.6 - The Failed Drug War

  • Ep.5 - Criminal Defense in Denmark and New Zealand

  • Ep.4 - Strip Searching the Arrested

  • Ep.3 - Juvenile Life Without Parole

  • Ep.2 - Right to Counsel in Maryland

  • Ep.1 - Norman Reimer

  • Introductory Episode

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