The Criminal Docket by National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

What's The Criminal Docket about?

Welcome to NACDL's podcast series, "The Criminal Docket," hosted by Ivan J. Dominguez, NACDL's senior director of public affairs & communications. NACDL is the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is well-known to many as "Liberty's Last Champion."

Each episode of "The Criminal Docket" explores important items on the criminal justice agenda, in-depth, with top leaders in the legal practice, public policy, journalism, academia, and others whose lives intersect with the criminal justice system.

What's The Criminal Docket about?

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The Criminal Docket episodes:

#64: Interview with Alabama criminal defense attorney Richard S. Jaffe, author of the NACDLPress publication, “Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned” 2nd Ed.

#63: Interview with Founder and Executive Director of Civil Rights Corps Alec Karakatsanis, author of “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System”

#62: Interview with NYU School of Law Professor Rachel E. Barkow, Author of "Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration"

#61: Televerde, the Arouet Foundation, and Second Chances for Women Coming Out of Incarceration

#60: Federal Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton’s Important New Book, "51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law"

#59: Criminal Discovery Reform Efforts in Virginia

#58: NAACP President & CEO Derrick Johnson on Clemency, Collateral Consequences, and Criminal Justice Reform

#57: Episode Fifty-Seven – The Right to Counsel: A Conversation with Utah Judge Michael W. Kwan

#56: Forthcoming Documentary: "In The Executioner’s Shadow"

#55: "The Feminine Sixth: Women for the Defense"

#54: "The War on Kids," an Essential New Book by Professor Cara Drinan

#53: South Carolina’s Sixth Amendment-Free Zones

#52: NACDL’s First Amendment Strike Force and Mass Defense Unit

#51: Packingham v. North Carolina: Collateral Consequences at the High Court

#50: Professor Suja A. Thomas on "The Missing American Jury"

#49: United States v. FedEx Corp.: The Billion Dollar-plus Criminal Case that Simply Wasn’t

#48: United States v. Clay: A Case Study in Overcriminalization and Unchecked Prosecutorial Discretion

#47: Harry C. Alford, President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce

#46: Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s "Guantánamo Diary"

#45: The Fishy Case of Yates v. United States Now Before the U.S. Supreme Court

#44: Author Interview ~ "Not Guilty: The Unlawful Prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens" By Rob Cary

#43: Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. Addresses NACDL Annual Meeting and Seminar

#42: Criminal Justice and the Media: Covering Appellate Decisions

#41: Criminal Justice and the Media: Covering Trials

#40: Criminal Justice and the Media: Covering Criminal Justice Policy

#39: Criminal Justice and the Media: Introduction

#38: Investigator Marty Bugbee on Your Digital Trail

#37: Human Rights Watch Report on The Trial Penalty in Federal Drug Cases

#36: Congress’s Overcriminalization Task Force

#35: Professor Norman Lefstein on the Federal Indigent Defense Crisis

#34: Groundbreaking Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System – Part III

#33: Groundbreaking Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System – Part II

#32: Stingrays, Pings and Triangulation – Oh my!

#31: Groundbreaking Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

#30: NACDL’s Domestic Drone Information Center

#29: Issues in Child Pornography Law & Sentencing

#28: Gideon at 50: New Indigent Defense System Research

#27: NACDL’s “Getting Scholarship Into Court Project”

#26: A Representative NACDL CLE Program

#25: NACDL’s Restoration of Rights Database

#24: Bail and the Presumption of Innocence

#23: Eugene Jarecki’s “The House I Live In”

#22: Dog Sniffs at the Supreme Court - Part Two

#21: Dog Sniffs at the Supreme Court

#20: Missouri Public Defender Caseload Litigation

#19: NACDL President Steven D. Benjamin

#18: NACDL President Lisa Wayne Reflects on Her Term

#17: SCOTUS Review with Stanford Law Professor Pamela S. Karlan

#16: "Disrobed," a new book by Judge Frederic Block

#15: Weekly News Roundup