Useful Links

Advocate Issue Links

2008 Spring Issue:

Click here to download Dr. Ahava's "New Orleans Teen" Article & Appendix

Click here to download Thomas Davenport's "Expungement" Article & Appendix

State Legal Information

Cornell Law School- Louisiana Ethics
The link to the legal information institute, highlighting Louisiana Legal Ethics Materials

Louisiana State Legislature
The Governor's Office
Secretary of State

State of Louisiana Constitution
http://senate.legis.state.la.us/Documents/Constitution/
From the State Legislature.

Organizational Links

American Bar Association
Baton Rouge Bar Assn.
Lafayette Parish Bar Assn.
Louisiana Public Defenders' Association
Louisiana State Bar Association
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
National Legal Aid & Defender Association
New Orleans Bar Assn.

Resource Links

State vs. Ricky Langley Amicus Brief

Appellate News
Web blog with lots of appellate news.

Capital Defense Network
Capital Defense Network providing information and support attorneys working in death cases.

Crimelynx

Innocence Project - New Orleans

The Smoking Gun
All the public records and documents associated with the most sensational news.

The Law Maven Digest
The Law Maven Digest of interesting legal news. Updated Daily

Legal Directory
The Blue Book online for free.

Louisiana Appellate Project

Louisiana Indigent Defense Assistance Board (LIDAB)

Syracuse University's "Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse"
Reports interesting data on activities and trends of federal agencies, including the FBI, DEA, INS, IRS, ATF, Customs and more.

United States Sentencing Commission
Providing Federal Register notices, reports to congress, publications, guidelines and compliance, sentencing statistics and more.

United States District Court - Motion hearings
Upcoming dates for motion hearings in the USDC, Ed.La. -by judge

Virtual Gum Shoe
An extensive collection of online investigative tools

Sentencing Law & Policy: http://sentencing.typepad.com/
Weblog Providing Resources, Information and Commentary about both Capital and Non-Capital Sentencing Developments run by Douglas A. Berman, Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University

Punishment Theory: http://punishmenttheory.blog-city.com/
A group blog on criminal law and philosophy

CrimLaw: http://crimlaw.blogspot.com/

Public Defender Dude: http://publicdefenderdude.blogspot.com/

Public Defender Investigator Network http://www.pdinvestigator.net/

Crime & Federalism: http://federalism.blogspot.com/
Criminal law, white collar crime, federalism, enumerated powers, separation of powers, actions brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, government misconduct

Death Penalty Information Center : http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

Families Against Mandatory Minimum Sentences: http://www.famm.org

This web page is maintained by the Defender Services Training Branch (DSDTB) of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to provide Internet-based support to attorneys appointed under the Criminal Justice Act (CJA), 18 U.S.C. § 3006A, to represent financially-eligible defendants charged with federal offenses. This site contains many valuable resources for the CJA practitioner.

Privacy Foundation: http://www.privacyfoundation.org

Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.eff.org/
EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people — lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights.

FourthAmendment.com: http://www.wallywaller.com/4th/index.html

Prentice Hall’s Cybrary: http://talkjustice.com/browse.asp
World criminal justice directory

Legal Information Institute: http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/
Blue Book basic legal citation

Dumb Laws
http://www.dumblaws.com
Dumb laws from all states and a wide variety of foreign jurisdictions are included. The full text of many laws cited is available.

Law.com Legal Dictionary
http://dictionary.law.com/
A "real life dictionary of the law." Fully searchable.

United States Attorneys' Manual
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/
Website providing U.S. Attorneys' reference resource manuals.

Legal-Explanations.com
http://www.legal-explanations.com
Provides over 2,500 legal definitions.

International Law Dictionary
http://august1.com/pubs/dict
A good resource for international criminal and civil law definitions--some with links to more information.

United States Code
http://law2.house.gov/usc.htm
Searchable access to the U.S. Code.

Overview and Sources for Legal Research http://www.lawresearch.com/v2/practice/ctindex8.htm
Everything from style manuals to research links.

Law Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/lawweb/public/htdoc/index.html
A good resource for any legal researcher.

Magna Carta
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/magframe.htm
Online copy of the Magna Carta

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit Cases http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov

U.S. Constitution
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html
Hypertext version of the Constitution

U.S. Code
http://law2.house.gov/usc.htm
The federal laws of the U.S.

U.S. Supreme Court -- full text of cases:
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct
Leading archive of Supreme Court decisions, current and historic--searchable by subject; 1990-present.

U.S. Supreme Court decisions: full text; searchable by subject; 1937-1975
http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm

United States Code
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode
Searchable version of the federal statutes.

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