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In order for us to stay on top of legislative items against our industry, we have our own political action committee. Click here for a contribution form and send your donation today or click here to make that donation right now online via Authorize.Net! Personal and Corporate contributions are accepted.
AMICUS CURIAE
In keeping with MACDL’s consistent support for constitutional funding for the Missouri State Public Defender System and respect for the constitutional rights of all, MACDL filed an amicus brief in support of adequate funding by the legislature—coupled with legislative self-discipline on the application of the criminal sanction—as the means to resolve the Missouri State Public Defender System’s current fiscal crisis. Case remains pending before the Missouri supreme Court.
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LAWYER ASSISTANCE STRIKE FORCE
As a benefit of membership, members have the opportunity to consult with MACDL`s Strike Force if they are threatened in any way for providing legal representation to a client in a criminal proceeding and are subpoenaed to provide information, cited for contempt, being disqualified from the representation, or who become the subject of a bar complaint.
Lawyer Assistance Strike Force Guidelines
LIFETIME MEMBERS
Dan Dodson
Travis Noble
Joseph Passanise
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MACDL Amicus History
MACDL joined other organizations including NACDL, the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice and the Southern Center for Human Rights as amicus on a brief filed by the Arizona Capital Representation Project in the Arizona Supreme Court. The successful amicus brief was filed in support of William Miller, accused of murder and facing the death penalty, in a case which held that Arizona`s crime victims` rights provisions did not entitle the victims to be present at an ex parte hearing concerning the mitigation investigation.
MACDL filed an amicus brief in support of Tyler McNeely in Missouri Supreme Court. This brief focuses on the seizure of respondants blood as a violation of his fourth amendment rights agaist illegal search and seizure. The Missouri Supreme Court held that the mere fact that blood alcohol disipates over tme, alone, is not an exigency to allow a warrantless blood draw of a driver suspected of DWI. Talmage Newton of Evans and Dixon authored the brief.
MACDL filed an Amicus Brief in support of David Garcia in the Missouri Supreme Court. Mr. Garcia is charged with assault 1st and ACA. The crime allegedly occurred in April 98. Mr. Garcia was not arrested until Feb. 2009. The MACDL Amicus Brief focuses on the constitutional right to a speedy trial. John Davidson of John L. Davidson, P.C. authored the brief.
MACDL filed an amicus brief in support of Carl Smith, a MACDL member, held in contempt of comments made in court in the defense of a client. The Supreme Court discharged Smith, reversing his conviction for criminal contempt. The MACDL amicus brief focused on zeolous advocacy. Talmage Newton of Evans and Dixon authored the brief.
MACDL filed an amicus brief in support of Herbert Smulls’ certiorari petition in the U.S. Supreme Court. Smulls was convicted and sentenced to death by an all white jury in St. Louis County after the prosecutor used a peremptory strike to exclude the only African American venire person. A panel of the Eighth Circuit ruled in Smulls’ favor on the Batson claim in his deferral habeas corpus case, but the Eighth Circuit in bank reversed that decision and denied relief. The MACDL amicus brief focused on the history of giving pretextual reasons for peremptory strikes of minority jurors by members of the St. Louis County prosecutor’s office. Joe Luby of the Public Interest Litigation Clinic in Kansas City authored the brief.
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