Assignment on Criminal Law - NACDL

Running head: CRIMINAL LAW
CRIMINAL LAW
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CRIMINAL LAW1
Introduction
NACDL is considered to be an American criminal defense organization. The members
include various private criminal defense lawyers or any lawyers, public offenders, active military
defense counsel, the professors for law along with judges and other defense counsel in the
international criminal tribunals. The organization is considered to work to build the coalitions
regarding legal organizations as such would aim to provide a platform for the significant legal
issues. The NACDL are often considered to submit amicus curiae briefs, which would be in
support of the litigants and such, would be at the state as well as the federal level (Love, 2018).
This paper discusses the present issue regarding the NACDL and why such has happened.
It also discusses briefly about the primary objectives of the NACDL. In conclusion, it
summarizes the points that have been dealt in the paper.
Discussion
The official journal of the NACDL is considered to be The Champion magazine and it
offers some timely as well as informative articles which are written for and by the criminal
defense lawyers and it also features the latest developments which are in search and seizure laws
or the grand jury proceedings along with the habeas corpus and the exclusionary rule, the death
penalty or the racketeer which are influenced along with the Corrupt Organizations Act. It also
deals with the federal sentencing guidelines along with the forfeiture and the white-collar crime
(Berman, & Adler, 2018). The primary objective of this organization is to preserve the fairness
that prevails within the American criminal justice system and it tries to do so through advocating
the reforms and by providing strong protections towards the attorney-client privilege and