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Criminal Justice Act (CJA) Panel Attorney Resources
ODS National Litigation Support Resources
The Office of Defender Services Training Branch hosts this site. It is our hope that it will be a resource for Defender staff and CJA panel attorneys when facing cases with large volumes of discovery and/or electronic discovery. The page defines litigation support, provides contact information for the National Litigation Support Team, and contains links to several helpful resources.
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 was signed into law on July 27, 2006. It established a complex and onerous national sex offender registry law, and made significant changes to sexual abuse, exploitation and transportation crimes, including creating new substantive crimes, expanding federal jurisdiction over existing crimes, and increasing (often by a factor of two or greater) statutory minimum and/or maximum sentences.
Links to some helpful resources related to Blakely/Booker/Fanfan.
The WordNet lexical database at Princeton defines a "blog" as a "shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies". The Federal Defense Blogs provide timely defense highlights from the Supreme Court and the Circuits -- or you can go directly to the Third Circuit blog.
This summary, written by Peter Goldberger, describes the amendments to the Federal Rules of Criminal and Appellate Procedure that went into effect on December 1, 2009.
Office of Defender Services Training Branch
The Defender Services Training Branch in Washington, DC provides support to panel attorneys in CJA cases. The Branch has special expertise in federal criminal law and procedure, including guideline sentencing. The hotline telephone number is 800-788-9908.
PACER & ECF - Public Access to Court Electronic Records and Electronic Case Filing sites.
Attorneys appointed under the CJA and related statutes are now exempt from payment of electronic public access fees for work that is performed pursuant to such appointment in all federal courts. For information on how to establish an exempt account, contact the PACER Service Center at 800-676-6856.
PA Western District Court - Attorney Handbook
Written and published by the United States District Court - Western District of Pennsylvania. (PDF format - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Guidelines for the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act
The appointment of counsel program in this district is governed by the Guidelines for the Administration of the CJA (contained in Volume VII of the Guide to Judiciary Policies and Procedures, and published pursuant to approval of the Judicial Conference of the United States), and the local CJA Plan of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
The local CJA Plan for the Western District of Pennsylvania was last updated on July 28, 2003 (PDF format - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
This page was last updated on January 26, 2010.
