Information on Federal
Regulations
- www.nynd-fpd.org/index.htm
A website for the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of New York can now be found at this link. This website will be a repository of pleadings, articles, and information relevant to the Northern New York CJA Panel and criminal defense lawyers generally.
Capital Defense Weekly
- www.capitaldefenseweekly.com/index.html
Information on Federal Regulations
- www.regulations.gov
Regulations.gov is a new U.S. Government web site where you can find, review, and submit
comments on Federal documents that are open for comment and published in the Federal Register.
The site also has a variety of links to agencies' regulatory information pages, Executive
Orders, OMB policy directives, and rule tracking information, as well as a gateway to Federal
Register publications on GPO Access, including the daily Federal Register, the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) and e-CFR, a new online edition of the CFR updated daily. you can access the new site at: http://www.regulations.gov
An excellent series of audio articles about
juror decision making in capital trials.
Click here
to view.
The
closing argument in the penalty phase of Khalfan Mohamed's trial in
United States v. Bin Laden (S. D. NY S(7) 98 Cr. 1023)(July 2, 2001).
Click here
to view.
The
transcript of a federal capital trial. United States v. Barnette (W.D. NC CR
No. 3:97CR23-P).
Racial
differences exist, with blacks disproportionately represented among
homicide victims and offenders.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm
The Resource Guide for Managing
Capital Cases, Vol. 1: Federal Death Penalty Trials- http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/dpen0000.pdf/$file/dpen0000.pdf
A 58-page monograph that describes the statutes, case law, and policies applicable to federal capital case-management issues such as appointment of counsel, case budgeting, and jury selection, and summarizes procedures judges have used in capital cases at each stage of the proceedings.
Center for Justice in Capital Cases
- www.law.depaul.edu/cjcc
The Center for Justice in Capital
Cases (CJCC) at the DePaul College of Law was created to act as a
training center both for capital defense attorneys in Illinois and to
train law students in a clinical
setting.
Death Penalty Information Center
- www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
The award winning site of the
Death Penalty Information Center. Includes the NAACP Legal Defense
Fund
Supreme Court Homepage - www.supremecourtus.gov
The new and improved site for the
United States Supreme Court. Dockets, schedules, and opinions can
be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat format.
Louisiana Indigent Defense Assistance Board
-
http://www.lidab.com/
A nuts and bolt site for trial
preparation in a capital case with a motion bank with nearly 100 entries
and a death penalty manual.
ABA Death
Penalty Representation Project -
http://www.probono.net/deathpenalty/index.cfm
The Death Penalty practice area
offers an array of resources for attorneys representing death row
prisoners in habeas cases.
Cornell Death Penalty Page - www.law.cornell.edu/topics/death_penalty.html
General information about federal
habeas corpus review and capital punishment, a synopsis of recent
federal court decisions on habeas corpus and capital punishment, and
links to other pertinent sites.
Jeff Flax's Homepage - www.jflax.com
Links to scores of other sites
containing valuable information on all aspects of criminal law and
procedure.
NACDL Death
Penalty -
www.criminaljustice.org/PUBLIC/death.htm
Information on how to handle a
capital case, recent developments in the law, and upcoming
seminars.
Bureau of Justice Statistics -
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Statistics
and analysis on homicide trends, courts, and sentencing.
Southern Center for Human Rights -
www.schr.org
General information about race
and the death penalty, the work of the Southern Center for Human
Rights, and current developments in the administration of the death
penalty in the United States.
FindLaw
- www.findlaw.com
A commercial website which
offers an array of free resources and tools for the legal
professional.
If you, or your organization,
would like to be included on this list;
or if you are listed and there is an error in your listing;
please contact
Mark Olive