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In important and relevant cases, NYSDA will submit or participate in an amicus brief. The most recently submitted amicus briefs and complete list of past briefs will be coming soon. Click here to view selected amicus curiae briefs.
The Backup Center maintains a clearinghouse of information essential to policy makers on issues such as alternatives to incarceration, assigned counsel fees, early entry of counsel, eligibility, expert services, funding, investigative services, monitoring, quality of representation, and training. Reports & Studies can be accessed by clicking here.
The Public Defense Backup Center Report, NYSDA's training newsletter, is published ten times a year. It contains case digests of recent, significant appellate decisions, legislative highlights, practice notes, a training events calendar, and news of interest to criminal defense lawyers. Access the current edition as well as selected past editions by clicking here.
From My Vantage Point (Executive Director)________________
Collection of articles by NYSDA's Executive Director on major issues concerning public defense in New York State that previously appeared in The Public Defense Backup Center Report and elsewhere. All documents are in PDF format.
- Measured Progress: Steps Toward Reform Must Include Independence, January-February 2008 (50K PDF)
- Towards Independence, March-May 2007 (50K PDF)
- The Reports Are in, It Is Now Time for Action, June-July, 2006 (90K PDF)
- On Sex Offender Hysteria , January-March 2006 (25K PDF)
- Speak With One Voice in 2006, November-December 2005 (73K PDF)
- NYSDA Works, August-September-October 2005 (76K PDF)
- Islands of Hope , June-July 2005 (57K PDF)
- Standards and Independent Public Defense Commission, June-July-August 2004 (105K PDF)
- Public Defense at the Crossroads: Listening to the Voice of Clients , Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (NY), September 2003
- Small Victories Are Victories Nonetheless, March-April 2003 (55K PDF)
- Hope for 2003 , November-December 2002 (89K PDF)
- The 90/90 Train Is Headed Your Way , May-June 2002 (20K PDF)
- Stronger?, January-February 2002 (44 PDF)
- Keeping NYSDA Open in a Changed World, July-December 2001 (136K PDF)
- Wanted: An Independent Commission to Oversee Public Defense Services, May 2001 (75K PDF)
- Clients and the Client Community Deserve a Say in Defense Services, April-March 2001 (163K PDF)
- NYSDA Urges AC Fee Increase—And More, January-February 2001 (29K PDF)
Defense Practice Tips___________________________________
Articles on criminal defense practice by attorneys and experts that previously appeared in The Public Defense Backup Center Report. The linked articles below are in PDF format and the unlinked articles are available from the Backup Center:
- Post-Release Supervision and Earley v Murray, March-May 2007 (84K PDF)
- Preliminary Assessment of Cunningham v California's Impact on Persistent Felony Offender (PFO) Provisions, January-February 2007 (130K PDF)
- Avoid Common "Missed Opportunities" in Local Criminal Courts (Part II), August-October 2006 (55K PDF)
- Cautionary Note About Fingerprint Analysis and Reliance on Digital Technology, June-July, 2006 (127K PDF)
- Avoid Common "Missed Opportunities" in Local Criminal Courts (Part I), January-March 2006 (46K PDF)
- DWI Slanguage II, September-December 2004 (91K PDF)
- DWI Slanguage, June-July-August 2004 (87K PDF)
- Highlights of the 2003 Assigned Counsel Rate Increase Legislation, July-August-September 2003 (52K PDF)
- Tailored Police Testimony at Suppression Hearings, September-October 2002 (35K PDF)
- Pretext Stops and Racial Targeting Claims After People v Robinson, September-October 2002 (47K PDF)
- "A Certificate of What?": The Mysterious Certificate of Relief From Disabilities, January-February 2002 (19K PDF)
- Civil Alternatives for Disposing of Criminal Proceedings of Defendants with Mental Disabilities, July-December 2001 (150K PDF)
- Admissibility of Expert Identification Testimony in New York After People v Anthony Lee, June 2001. Read the decision in People v Lee, 1 No. 57 (NY May 8, 2001) (96K PDF)
- An Introduction to Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in New York, May 2001 (79K PDF)
- Be Sure to Get a Copy of the Pre-Sentence Report, December 2000 (63K PDF)
- Representing Clients in Federal and State Cases, July 2000 (112K PDF)
- Understanding Medical Records: Rape, May-June 2000 (37K PDF)
- Obtaining Supporting Depositions, January-February 2000 (43K PDF)
- How to Get a Trial Consultant Appointed by the Court, June 1999 (28K PDF)
- Preserving Prosecution Summation Errors, May 1998, at 4
- Polygraphs: Pandora's "Box", April 1998, at 3
- Preservation Tips: Preserving Jury Charge Errors, September 1998, at 7
- Navigating the Procedural Minefield of C.P.L. ยง30.30, February 1997, at 8
- 1996 Limits on Federal Habeas Appeals and Successive Petitions, February 1997, at 7
- 1996 Law Changes Federal Habeas Hearings, January 1997, at 6
- Extrapolating Blood Alcohol Content: Facts to Consider, March 1997, at 6
- Pretext or Reason? Bringing and Withstanding Batson Challenges, February 1996, at 5
- U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Concept of Pretext Automobile Stop, June 1996, at 4
- Who Says Field Sobriety Tests Are Relevant and Valid?, June 1996, at 6
- Suspension Pending Prosecution, July 1996, at 5
- Incarcerated Witnesses in Criminal Defense Investigation, August-September, 1996, at 5
- Sex Offender Classification Hearings, October 1996, at 23
- Board Adopts Strict New Parole Violation Guidelines, December 1996, at 7
- A Look at the New Federal Habeas Deadlines, December 1996, at 9
- Sentence Calculation Rules Under the Sentencing Reform Act, September 1995, at 4
- New York's Sex Offender Registration/Community Notification Act: The Devil in the Details, November 1995, at 3
Defense Automation Tips________________________________
Articles on technology applications for criminal defense work that previously appeared in The Public Defense Backup Center Report. Copies of the articles below are available from the Backup Center:
- Updated or New Material Available on the Web, December 1998/January 1999, at 8
- Criminal Law Utilities for the PC: Something to Consider, June/July 1998, at 9
- Noteworthy Websites for New York Criminal Defense Practitioners, December 1996, at 10
Book Reviews__________________________________________
- Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse, January-February 2007 (203K PDF)
- Dreams of Ada and The Innocence Man, November-December, 2006 (98K PDF)
- Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution, August-October 2006 (62K PDF)
- Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey Into the Inferno of American Justice, June-July, 2006 (97K PDF)
- Public Defenders: Pragmatic and Political Motivations to Represent the Indigent, January-March 2006 (24K PDF)
- Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases, Jan.-Feb. 2005 (24K PDF)
- Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons, June-July-August 2004 (113K PDF)
- Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment, July-August-September 2003 (59K PDF)
- Criminal Law Slanguage of New York, May-June 2003 (304K PDF)
- Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death, January-February 2003 (1MB PDF)
- It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America After September 11, November-December 2002 (76K PDF)
- Village, Town and District Courts in New York, September-October 2002 (16K PDF)
- Charges to the Jury and Request to Charge in a Criminal Case New York, July-August 2002 (19K PDF)
- Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Their Own Words, January-February 2002 (17K PDF)
- Actual Innocence, July-December 2001 (126K PDF)
- Inside Out: Continuing to Cage Your Rage, July-December 2001 (389K PDF)
- DWI Defense Manual: Pleadings, Motions and Forms (249K PDF), June 2001
- Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature (159K PDF), March 2001
- Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions (56K PDF), December 2000
- State of Criminal Justice (63K PDF), December 2000
- Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House (92K), July 2000
- Proximity to Death (23K PDF), May-June 2000
- DWI Reference Guide (65KPDF), April 2000
- Law Never Here: A Social History of African American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice (23K PDF), March 2000
- New York Criminal and Civil Forfeiture (23K PDF), December 1999
- No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Justice System (39K PDF), July-August, 1999
- With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America (19K PDF), April-May, 1999
- Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, January 1998 at 3
- New York Identification Law—The Wade Hearing—The Trial, June-July 1998, at 8
- West's New York Practice Series, Volume 6 "New York Criminal Law", October 1996, at 5
- New York Pretrial Criminal Procedure (West Publishing), October 1996, at 6
New Publications_______________________________________
Representing Immigrant Defendants in New York (4th ed. 2006) is now available. For ordering details, download a PDF order form by clicking here. And visit NYSDA's Immigrant Defense Project website for more resources.
Now Available!
The Insider's Guide: Criminal Justice Resources on the Web 2002 (with companion CD-ROM) (551K PDF). Price: $24.95 +$5.00 (shipping/handling); NYSDA Members, $14.95 +$5.00 (shipping/handling). Join NYSDA (458K PDF) when you place your order and take advantage of the lower membership price.
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