public defense training

NACDL staff will travel to Riverside County (CA) to provide technical and training assistance for prosecutors, judges, defenders, and probation. Riverside County's probation department has offered to conduct a training for all four groups with the goal of educating them on the county's bail practices and risk-assessment use.

NACDL, working in consultation with Professor Michele LaVigne of the University of Wisconsin Law School, has drafted a pretrial release manual, tailored to the specific legal framework and Wisconsin’s defense bar’s needs and challenges. The manual includes a discussion of fundamental bail issues and case law, practice guidelines and checklists for effective bail advocacy, a catalog of Wisconsin's laws and procedures, sample pleadings, applicable risk-assessment tools, and cites to available resources within the jurisdiction.

NACDL staff will speak at a series of training programs for New Jersey Office of the Public Defender attorneys preparing to represent clients at first appearances and preventive detention hearings, in conjunction with the release of The New Jersey Pretrial Justice Manual.

NACDL staff will speak at a series of training programs for New Jersey Office of the Public Defender attorneys preparing to represent clients at first appearances and preventive detention hearings, in conjunction with the release of The New Jersey Pretrial Justice Manual.

NACDL staff will speak at a series of training programs for New Jersey Office of the Public Defender attorneys preparing to represent clients at first appearances and preventive detention hearings, in conjunction with the release of The New Jersey Pretrial Justice Manual.