The American Bar Association (ABA) and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) are designing and implementing a pilot Public Defender Fellowship Program (PDFP) aimed at advancing best practices in indigent defense representation.
The ABA’s Providing Defense Services (1992), Standard 5-1.5 calls for access to ongoing training for public defense attorneys. The preface to the NLADA defender training standards also states: “Continuous improvement and training are critical to competence.” And as NLADA’s Performance Guidelines for Criminal Defense Representation (1995) define specific criteria for attorney competence, these Defender Training and Development Standards establish guidelines for the creation and implementation of ongoing training programs for defender systems against those performance criteria.
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On March 25, 1931, a fight broke out between a group of poor white and black youths aboard a freight train bound for Memphis, Tennessee via Huntsville, Alabama. Outnumbered, all but one of the white young men was thrown off the train a short distance over the Alabama line, where they promptly alerted local law enforcement.
Between 2006 and 2008, NLADA conducted an assessment of the public defense services in ten upstate New York counties. This is the report of the findings in Jefferson County, New York.
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Law school may teach us to "think like a lawyer," but it seldom prepares an attorney to defend a living breathing client who is charged with a specific criminal act where the prosecution will take place in a specific jurisdiction that has its own unique policies and procedures. Instead, lawyers learn how to actually represent clients when they take their first jo
The broad principles of national practices in training that every defender organization should equal or exceed, set out in black letter standards.
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Reviewing and explaining the use to indigent defense agencies and defender trainers of innovative internet technologies, including Clouds, Distance Learning, Podcasts, and Social Media.
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Lists the national performance standards for indigent defense systems and indigent defense attorneys, explains what is contained in each set of standards, and describes how you can use them to provide better client representation, measure the representation you are currently providing, and explain to budget authorities and policy-makers what the Sixth Amendment requires of you.
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