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    NAPD regularly features writings from public defender members as they respond to relevant events, consider policy questions, summarize relevant case law, or appear as guests on podcasts. The blog posts reflect the diverse perspectives of the national public defense community and do not reflect any formal positions by NAPD. Read them below!

     

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    How to Improve Your Public Defense Office

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    geoff.burkhart
    June 13, 2016

    An NAPD Interview with Idaho PDC Executive Director Kimberly Simmons

    Author
    NAPD
    June 11, 2016
    Court Summaries

    Supreme Court Issues Decisions on Juvenile Life without Parole, the Death Penalty, and State Procedural Bars to Federal Habeas

    Author
    greg.mermelstein
    June 10, 2016
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    Man Freed After “Victim” Sent Threats to Herself

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    tamara.barak.aparton
    June 7, 2016
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    When Will All of Us Be “Us” and Not “Them?”

    Author
    katherine.mason
    June 6, 2016
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    Using Caseload Standards, Time Logs, and Other Tools to Get Public Defender Funding

    Author
    michael.barrett
    June 3, 2016
    Court Summaries

    Supreme Court Issues Decisions on Batson, Deportation of Persons Convicted of Crimes, Speedy Sentencing, Conspiracy, and AEDPA Deference

    Author
    greg.mermelstein
    June 1, 2016
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    A New Standard of Wrongness – When Police Have No Accountability

    Author
    tim.young
    May 25, 2016
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    Public Defenders: Noble Warrieors, Often Maligned

    Author
    howard.franklin
    May 19, 2016