Kentucky Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers
Upcoming Events
June Video Seminars
Dates and Sites
to be determined
2010 Legislative Update
Ernie Lewis
Prosecutorial Misconduct
Judge Stan Billingsley
KY & Federal Firearms
Statutes
(planned)
Advanced DUI Seminar
September 2010
Lexington &
Louisville
2010 Annual Conference and Seminar
Friday, November 5 Horseshoe
Casino
Elizabeth, Indiana
Keynote Speaker
Stephen Bright
President and Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights
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Ed
Monahan and Dan Goyette receive the Outstanding Legal Service Award At the 2010 Annual Awards Dinner of the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty (NCADP) held at The Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday evening, January 16, 2010, the Louisville Metro Public Defender’s Office and the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy were presented the Outstanding Legal Service Award for over 30 years of dedicated representation of indigent clients in capital offense cases at trial and on appeal. |
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Resources
Reevaluating Lineups: Why Witnesses Make Mistakes, from the Innocence Project
Reconsidering the Death Penalty, from the Death Penalty
Information Center
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"WE'VE GONE MAD" “We’ve gone mad, haven’t we, that we would lock up a
woman, who’s ready to have a baby, in a jail because she violated the
conditions of probation for the commission of a misdemeanor offense… “The thing I think that is the difference in Kentucky, as
compared to the country, is the use of jails the way we’re using them.
The conditions that I’ve seen in these jails, you and I should be
ashamed of. Why are we doing it? The
counties "I think if we could educate people about the things that I’ve seen, I don’t believe the American people would accept it. I don’t believe Kentuckians would accept what I’ve seen in these jails." - From Professor Lawson's address at the 23rd Annual
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For criminal defense counsel representing noncitizen clients, the relationship between criminal and immigration law continues to grow increasingly complex. As a result of dramatic changes to federal immigration law over the last several years, countless noncitizens have their lives inexorably altered due to convictions for many non-violent and relatively minor offenses, including simple drug possession, misdemeanor theft, and document-related offenses. An otherwise reasonable plea agreement from a defense perspective may subject a noncitizen defendant to disproportionate immigration consequences, including mandatory immigration detention, the loss of potential defenses in immigration proceedings, removal from the United States, and the risk of federal prosecution for illegal re-entry.
(This article considers some Colorado law, but the issues
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Consequently, the fates of many
noncitizens are decided in the course of a criminal case long before the
client ever reaches an immigration attorney.
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Does the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibit government executions of death row convicts after those inmates have been brought from incompetency to competency through forced administration of antipsychotic drugs?
A recent Sixth Circuit opinion lamented the fact that neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor the Sixth Circuit have "squarely addressed" this question. This same opinion declined to answer this "difficult question" because the State of Tennessee never actually forced the defendant, Gregory Thompson, to take antipsychotic medications.
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