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Links to Current Constitutional Issues Involving Privacy, Attorney-Client Privileges, and Other Civil Rights Issues
California Federal, State and Local Public Defender Office Directory

California County and County Public Defender Website Links

Draft Survey Results - 2003 Defender Office Staffing Levels by County, State, and Federal for California

CPDA's CLE Month-View Calendar Listing

Meeting Facilities List

Driving Directions (Requires Facility Address)

National and State Standards for Delivery of Defense Services Web Link

CLARANET Subscriber Form (You Must Be a Member of CPDA)

CPDA Membership Application Form & Info.

California Courts Directory (California Judicial Council Web Site Link)

Who is Clara?

California State Bar On The Web

State Bar MCLE Regulations

California Women Defenders Association!

.The Judicial Council of California's site map

2004 Convention Keynote Speech by Professor Bryan Stevenson - The Criminal Justice System Today

2004 Defender of the Year Award - Roberto Najera, Deputy Public Defender, Contra Costa County.

2004 Program of the Year Award - Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office - Winston Peters, Bureau Chief, Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office.

2004 Rose Elizabeth Bird Award - Judge Herbert Donaldson, San Francisco Superior Court

Hon. Cruz Reynoso Reflects on the Justice System and The Rose Bird Era

Former California Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird Award Established

 

A Message from the CPDA President To California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George

Article #1 - CPDA position regarding the CA Chief Justice's proposal to change the appeals process for cases resulting in the death penalty

Article #2 Transferring Appeals is Not The Answer, by Michael S.Ogul

 

CPDA Awards Pages

 

California Public Defenders Association & California Attorneys for Criminal Justice - Joint Response to the California District Attorneys Association's "White Paper" Regarding the Death Penalty in California.

CPDA Releases "An Analysis of Proposition 36" Click HERE for the analysis in Adobe Acrobat format

California Campaign for New Drug Policies - Web Site!

Student Loan Forgivness - New Federal Legislative Effort Underway

An Editorial: In Today's Trials, Experts are Crucial to Ensure That Justice Be Done (Acrobat File)

Gideon v. Wainwright Information

The Los Angeles County Bar Association's report and recommendations following the Rampart Police Scandal

The Use of Force, a series of articles in the San Francisco Chronicle on the use of force by police.

Click HERE to read a five-part series regarding the criminal justice system by the San Jose Mercury News (as of January/February 2006)

And click HERE to view/download a copy of a chart that documents how the criminal justice system SHOULD work.

A Message from The CPDA President

Compendium of Indigent Defense Standards

Truth in Justice Web site

The Conviction of Lynn Stewart hurts us all," an article in CounterPunch

Is the US Turning into a Surveillance Society?

Center for Constitutional Rights

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

New York Times Columnist William Safire's "J. Edgar Mueller" Article

American Bar Association: Statement of Robert E. Hirshon President, American Bar Association

Criminal Justice System Flow Chart in Acrobat Format

Grace's Cases - Podcasts      
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