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NACDL is committed to enhancing the capacity of the criminal defense bar to safeguard fundamental constitutional rights.
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NACDL envisions a society where all individuals receive fair, rational, and humane treatment within the criminal legal system.
NACDL’s mission is to serve as a leader, alongside diverse coalitions, in identifying and reforming flaws and inequities in the criminal legal system, and redressing systemic racism, and ensuring that its members and others in the criminal defense bar are fully equipped to serve all accused persons at the highest level.
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The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a professional society, offers the following comments for the White House’s consideration. … NACDL has particular expertise in the collection of law enforcement data. Since 2020, NACDL’s Full Disclosure Project has managed an open-source web application to track, aggregate, and analyze law enforcement misconduct data. NACDL also collaborates with advanced computing and data science partners to develop tools and processes that automate collecting and digesting police data.
NACDL is pleased to see the U.S. Sentencing Commission proposing amendments the Sentencing Guidelines that seek to address the unfair practice of allowing acquitted conduct to be considered as relevant conduct under Sentencing Guideline Section 1B1.3.
NACDL supports the Commission’s proposed amendment to §1B1.13, with some suggested modifications, and supports Option 3 to (b)(6). After reviewing the Commission’s recent hearings on this proposed amendment as well as the submitted written testimony, NACDL focuses its comments on proposals (b)(5), (b)(6), and (b)(4).
NACDL submits this comment in response the Bureau of Prisons’ Proposed rule that would significantly change the regulations regarding the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program. We oppose these proposed changes, which are harsh and inequitable and will harm not only people who are incarcerated, but their families and dependents.
With one suggestion for improvement, NACDL supports the proposed amendments to Fed.R.App.P. 35 and 40, which would consolidate and clarify the procedures governing petitions for panel or en banc rehearing, as well as petitions for initial en banc consideration.
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is pleased to submit our comments on the proposed amendments to Rules 611, 613, 804 and 1006 of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
I write to you … on behalf of NACDL and the undersigned [leaders] of 26 affiliate associations from 25 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Our members include thousands of attorneys who … believe that access to qualified and properly-resourced counsel is essential to safeguard the rights of the indigent accused. We write to convey our profound concern about the impact of funding cuts on federal indigent defense services, specifically their impact on the thousands of accused persons who depend upon appointed counsel to secure their Sixth Amendment rights.
Comments on rules & regulations and letters submitted to the U.S. Sentencing Commission on behalf of NACDL
Comments on rules & regulations and letters submitted to various federal agencies on behalf of NACDL
Comments on rules & regulations and letters submitted to the Department of Justice on behalf of NACDL
Comments on rules & regulations and letters submitted to the Judicial Conference of the U.S. on behalf of NACDL
Follow-up letter to the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure Advisory Committee on Civil Rules regarding the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000.
Letter to the U.S. Courts Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure Advisory Committee on Civil Rules regarding the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000.
Comments to the U.S. Courts Administrative Office on the consequences of allowing public access to electronic criminal case files.
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is pleased to submit our comments with respect to the proposed changes in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
