Over the years, FDPRC
has acquired an extensive inventory of motions, briefs, and memoranda,
and has developed a number of strategy memoranda, case summaries, and
information sheets and tables, concerning the issues, practices, and
procedures unique to, or made unique by, federal death penalty
cases.
These documents are
organized into Litigation Guides and are downloadable and easily
accessible through user-friendly indexes. Many of these materials are
available to the public. Counsel and other defense team members in
federal capital cases are eligible for additional information, training,
and support from FDPRC.
The on-line litigation
guides cover seven areas at present – the Department of Justice’s Death
Penalty Authorization Process, Discovery, defending Foreign Nationals, Jury Selection,
Racial Justice Issues, Severance and Time to Trial. We
are preparing additional litigation guides covering Resources for the
Defense, Death Penalty Challenges, Penalty Phase Instructions, Penalty
Phase Investigation and Mental Retardation Issues, which will be included in
the webpage very soon. Extensive materials are presently available in all
these areas, but the organization of them into litigation guides is work
in progress. If you need materials in these areas before they are
available in the webpage, contact FDPRC.
