NEWS FROM THE OFFICE OF THE APPELLATE DEFENDER
OAD periodically produces a newsletter, News from the Office of the Appellate Defender, which it distributes to its supporters.
To view previous issues of News from the Office of the Appellate Defender as a PDF document, please click on the issue you would like to see.
- Innocent Client Exonerated
- Legal Community Supports First Monday in October 2007
- Reinvestigation Project Created
- Success in the Appellate Division
- Court Orders Conviction Reversals and New Trials for OAD Clients
- Success in the Appellate Division
- Criminal Appellate Defender Clinic at NYU
- OAD in the Court of Appeals
- Double-Homicide Conviction Reversed
- OAD Prevails Over Parole Board and Secures Client's Release
- First Monday in October 2006
- Expansion of the Social Work/Re-entry Program
- OAD Expands Social Work Re-entry Program
- OAD Moves to New Location
- Federal Habeas Cases
- OAD in the Court of Appeals
- OAD Reveals Trial Counsel Error and Gets Conviction Reversed
- Client Wins New Trial
- First Monday in October 2005
- Recent Sentence Reductions
- Court of Appeals Reverses Conviction Due to Erroneous Admission of Uncharged Crime
- OAD Convinces Court to Reduce Harsh Sentences
- OAD Client Gets Published
- Appellate Division Finds Car Search Illegal
- OAD Wins Sentence Reduction for Terminally Ill Client
- 2004 First Monday in October the Most Successful to Date
- OAD in Federal Court
- High Court Grants Leave to Appeal in Two OAD Cases
- Trial Court Vacates Murder Conviction and 22-Year to Life Sentence
- Refusal to Dismiss Biased Prospective Juror Results in New Trial
- Court of Appeals Reverses Conviction
- Social Work Resource Manual Now Online
- Court Strikes Conviction Resulting in 16 Year to Life Sentence for Shoplifting
- Right to Presence Violation Results in New Trial
- Court Finds Violation of Right to Trial by Jury
- Court Finds Jury Coercion and Reverses Conviction
- Prosecutors' Disclosure of Withheld Evidence Results in New Trial for Client
- OAD to Launch Appellate Defender Clinic at NYU School of Law
- Appellate Court Orders Hearing on OAD's Claim of Ineffective Assistance
- OAD Challenges Client's Plea in State's Highest Court
- Court of Appeals Reverses OAD Client's Murder Conviction
- OAD Client's Conviction Vacated Due to Failure to Properly Instruct Jury
- Court of Appeals to Hear OAD Case
- OAD Files Court of Appeals Amicus Curiae Brief
- Attorney Wins New Trial for Wrongly Convicted Client
- OAD Creates Innovative Social Work Program
- Clients Win Sentence Reductions
- OAD Again Seeks Emergency Council Support
- OAD Logs Important Victories
- First Monday in October 2001 a Success
- Court of Appeals to Hear VAD Attorney's Case
- OAD Survives Budget Battle But Faces Uncertain Future
- Court of Appeals to Consider How Eyewitness Testimony Evaluated
- OAD Client Builds on Legal Victory
- OAD Win Makes Client Parole Eligible
- OAD Wins Important Ruling Vindicating Right to Counsel
- Appellate Division Reverses Conviction on Unlawful Arrest
- OAD Funding Again in Doubt
- Social Work Intern to Join OAD
- State High Court Issues Groundbreaking Ruling in OAD Case
- Alumni Continue to Serve the Public Interest
- Fighting For Our Clients in the Federal Courts
- OAD Wins Sentence Reductions
- U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Taxi Stop Case
- OAD to Handle Deliquency Appeals
- OAD Wins Appeal on Fourth Amendment Grounds
- Staff Attorneys Share Expertise with Trial Lawyers
- Top Court Declares Taxi Stops Illegal