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Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, NACDL has nimbly shifted its operations so that it could continue uninterrupted to provide first-rate member services and zealously work for a better criminal law system.
NACDL: Jury Trials Not Safe Until COVID-19 Pandemic Under Control [Released June 2020]
Featuring NACDL's Task Force on Criminal Court Reopening: Nina Ginsberg, Stephen Ross Johnson, Todd Pugh, and MartÃn Sabelli
NACDL to Focus on Service and Support for Members, Clients, and Community Throughout Virus Emergency
Motion for Funds to Retain a Jury Composition and Selection Procedures Expert
Proposed Order Granting Funds to Retain a Jury Composition and Selection Procedures Expert
Representation of detained clients who are at high risk for serious health consequences if they contract COVID-19 involves a progression of actions. The authors provide an overview of how to seek compassionate release from both prison wardens and district courts. This discussion includes strategies for navigating an ICE detainer and other immigration law issues when clients are not United States citizens.
Plexiglass retrofitting of courtrooms does not protect jurors, litigants, or court personnel from the potentially lethal coronavirus. Plexiglass will, however, interfere with a lawyer’s ability to communicate confidentially with clients.
Although women are comprising an ever-larger part of the prison population, they are being housed in a correctional system that was primarily designed for men.
European Crim. Bar Assn. Principles on Use of Video Conf. in Post-COVID World (9-6-20)
Penn. Motion In Limine Objecting to COVID Trial Procedures (8-24-20)
Nation’s Criminal Defense Bar Calls for Prompt Implementation of Comprehensive, Concrete, and Transparent COVID-19 Coronavirus Readiness Plans for Nation’s Prisons, Jails, and Other Detention Facilities -- Washington, DC (March 4, 2020) – The modern American way of criminal justice — mass incarceration on a scale exceeding both the absolute and per capita incarceration numbers of virtually every nation on earth — has set the stage for potentially catastrophic consequences in light of the emerging COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic affecting the globe.
Iris Eytan, Dru Nielsen, and special guest moderator Martin Sabelli join the Engage & Exchange Discussion for COVID-19 & Courts Reopening - Lessons Learned in Litigation.
EDNY: August 26, 2020, United States District Judge Gary R. Brown Memorandum and Order
Order granting compassionate release: waiving exhaustion and granting compassionate release due to age, diabetes, hypertension, obesity; “When the Court sentenced Zukerman, the Court did not intend for that sentence to ‘include a great and unforeseen risk of severe illness or death’ brought on by a global pandemic.”
