Presented on Thursday, May 21, 2024, this webinar covers various aspects of handling firearm cases in district and superior courts in Massachusetts. This is a great program to get up to date on this quickly-changing area of law and to ensure you have a robust understanding of discovery issues, motion practice, and trial strategies.
A webinar designed for non-lawyer community organizations sponsored by MACDL’s Community Engagement Racial Justice Committee that took place on Thursday, February 25, 2021.
This video of the September 22, 2020 CLE webinar addresses the emerging trend of the substitution of 58A dangerousness petitions for cash bail as a way to hold defendants in pretrial detention.
We have assembled a list of annotated links, including resource guides, organizations and movements, education, policing issues, and articles helpful to public defenders.
From the March 22, 2019 seminar. Topics include aspects of post-conviction litigation such as: DNA/probabilistic genotyping, false confessions, improper closing arguments, habeas law for state practitioners, compassionate release and more…
Presentations from the November 2, 2018 MACDL Seminar by cell phone expert Joe Nicholls, a senior level computer expert with specialized training and experience in cell phone forensics, and defense attorney Chauncey Wood.
Jury selection is changing in Massachusetts, and the best ways to obtain a jury is to be fair to our ethnically and racially diverse clients. Resources from the October 18, 2018 seminar are available here for MACDL members only.
NACDL’s mission is to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime; foster the integrity, independence and expertise of the profession; promote the proper and fair administration of criminal justice.