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      	Councel Error Does Not Block Deportation New York Law Journal article - November 2003 [ more info ]
      	Tovar Brief cover page Iowa v. Tovar (No. 02-1541) U.S. Supreme Court BRIEF OF THE NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION, ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS, AND THE IOWA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT [ more info ]
      	Waiver of Counsel table (Tovar) Iowa v. Tovar (No. 02-1541) U.S. Supreme Court BRIEF OF THE NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION, ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS, AND THE IOWA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT *Appendix included as part of submission to U.S. Supreme Court re Iowa v. Tovar [ more info ]
      	Amicus Brief - Kansas v. Crane Amicus brief-Sexual Predator Laws-Question Presented: Whether states must prove a convicted sexual predator is unable to control his dangerous behavior in order to justify continuing imprisonment after the inmate's prison term is over, or whether it is enough to show that someone is dangerous and has a serious mental health problem. [ more info ]
      	Amicus Brief - Dickerson v. U.S. This case asks the Court to decide whether federal investigators are bound by the procedures set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966). While the Court in Miranda declined to require the presence of counsel for an accused during a custodial interrogation, Miranda at least ensures that a suspect be informed of his or her Fifth Amendment privilege and have a continuous opportunity to assert it. This knowledge and opportunity are both critically important for the indigent and often ill-educated clients served by the NLADA’s members. Further, abandoning Miranda’s bright-line rules would relegate police, prosecutors, defense counsel and courts to the days before 1966, when all found it difficult to discern when a constitutional line had been crossed during a police interrogation. [ more info ]
      	Flores v. Ashcroft No. 02-3160, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS (7th Cir.), 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 24051 September 18, 2003, Argued; November 26, 2003, Decided Petition for Review of an Order of the BIA. [ more info ]
      	Tovar Brief Iowa v. Tovar (No. 02-1541) U.S. Supreme Court BRIEF OF THE NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION, ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS, AND THE IOWA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT [ more info ]
      	STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ARTHUR T. COPELAND (Eyewitness ID) STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ARTHUR T. COPELAND is a May 2007 decision from the Tennessee Supreme Court, overturning its long-standing precedent excluding eyewitness testimony as common sense, citing (among other things) PDS (D.C.) poll data showing that jurors tend to overestimate the reliability of cross-racial IDs. The defendant in the case had been sentenced to death, but the Supreme Court overturned the conviction for the trial court's failure to admit the expert testimony of Jack Brigham on the cross-race effect. [ 05/23/07  |  more info ]