LACDL • P.O. Box 82531 • Baton Rouge, LA 70884

Phone: 225-767-7640 • Fax: 225-767-7648

Don't Get Lost In A Crowd Of Nuts..

Join LACDL in Baton Rouge

July 17-18, 2008

 Holiday Inn Select

for our

"Nuts and Bolts"

CLE Seminar

Click here for a Seminar Brochure, Schedule, Registration Form & Exhibitor/Sponsor Information

Seminar CLE Hours:

Thursday, July 17, 2008: 8:00 am - 4:45 pm

Friday, July 18, 2008: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm

SEMINAR INFORMATION

Seminar Dates: July 17-18, 2008

Holiday Inn Select Reservations Phone: 800-678-4065

Room Rate: $96.00 single/double

Special Room Rate Deadline: June 16, 2008, after June 16th, reservations will be based on hotel availability. Make sure to mention LACDL in order to receive the discounted room rate.

Holiday Inn Select Website Reservation: www.hiselect.com/execcenterbtr

Website Promotion Code: N89

ROOMS ARE LIMITED!!!!

Make your hotel reservations NOW!!!

Call the Holiday Inn Select directly at 800-678-4065.

In order to receive the discounted room rate, make sure to mention LACDL when making your reservations.

LACDL will waive the registration fee for a Public Defender in their first year of public defender practice. However, If you would like to purchase printed materials you must send a $35 payment to LACDL by July 7, 2008. Please fill out a registration form and submit to LACDL.

Questions? Call LACDL at 225-767-7640.

The Shreveport Times

Guest Editorial, by Elton B. Richey Jr.

What Every Citizen Needs To Know

About Wrongful Convictions

January 20, 2008

Over 75,000 people a year are arrested based on eyewitness identification.  In Louisiana our incarceration rate, the highest in the nation, is 797 per 100,000, meaning that we imprison about one in 125 people.

In 1983, when a Sabine Parish Jury convicted Rickey Johnson of the aggravated rape of a Many woman, I was a young police officer, patrolling the streets of Shreveport and believing only guilty people went to jail.  I never thought that 25 years later I would be the president of the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Though miscarriages of justice were talked about in the law enforcement and legal community, few were verified and many, if not most, of us believed “it could never happen here.”

Click on the link below for the complete editorial.

The Shreveport Times Elton Richey Complete Editorial 1-20-08

PRESS RELEASE-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 LAW LIBRARY OFFERS FREE WESTLAW ACCESS TO ATTORNEYS

Free  access  to  Westlaw  is  now  available  in New Orleans for attorneys admitted to practice in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal. The Fifth Circuit Law Library, located at 600 Camp Street, has purchased a license allowing free access to the database for up to two users at a time.

Funding for this project comes from the Attorney Fee Admission Fund, an account which is created out of a portion of the fees required to practice in the fifth circuit.  The application for admission to practice in the Fifth Circuit is found at http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/.  For a copy of the entire press release, click on the below link.

Westlaw Press Release

For more information, please contact Amy Hale-Janeke, Head of Reference Services, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Library, New Orleans Headquarters at 504-310-7755.

Investigation of the Caddo Parish Coroner's Office And the late Dr. George McCormick

After longtime Caddo Parish Coroner Dr. George McCormick died of a massive heart attack an investigation by the Caddo Parish District Attorney discovered that McCormick often did not actually perform or even attend autopsies. Many irregularities have been reported. Now many cases and convictions are being reexamined.

Click here to access court filings and other documents related to the operation of the Coroner's office and pending litigation.

 

LACDL . . .Who We Are

The Louisiana Association Criminal Defense Lawyers—founded in 1985 by criminal defense lawyers, for criminal defense lawyers—is a very active organization of almost 400 members. One of the most important features of LACDL is the understanding that with the organization "You are not alone."

Membership in LACDL means joining your fellow defenders in the struggle for liberty, individual rights, the basic principle of due process, and the fundamental right to a fair trial.

As criminal defense lawyers and public defenders, it is important to affiliate with other lawyers who have the same interests and problems. Networking with peers who have a common, passionate interest is one of the benefits of membership in LACDL.

LACDL List Serve

To participate, you must be a member of LACDL. If you are already member of our List Serve and would like to view the members or sign in and view archived messages you can click here.  In order to confirm your membership, please include your first and last name in your request.

"The LACDL List Serve is the greatest thing since sliced bread! It's like an online brainstorm. It's the first place I go whenever I have a question in a difficult case, need help finding an expert or just want to exchange ideas and

information, with other members"