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NACDL President Cynthia Orr Said Law Enforcement Needs to Be More Sophisticated to Fight Economic Crimes
In the President’s Column in The Champion, the organization’s monthly publication, attorney Cynthia Orr said she thinks future investigations will rely heavily on the Internet and more technological devices. She said they will require technology professionals because cyberspace is where money laundering begins. Read the September/October 2009 edition of The Champion Magazine.
NACDL President Cynthia Orr Discusses Suit to End Renegade Commissions
As reported by the NACDL, attorneys for two Guantanamo defendants have filed a lawsuit in federal court to halt renegade military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. NACDL President Cynthia Orr said the DC Circuit must bring the commissions to a halt – as President Barack Obama ordered – before they inflict any more damage on…
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NACDL President Cynthia Orr Said Country Needs to Reexamine Drug Laws
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers President Cynthia Orr said the country needs to rethink the structure of its drug laws and the way the criminal justice system handles drug users. About 500,000 men and women are incarcerated for a drug offense, and they are disproportionately poor, minorities or immigrants, Orr said in a NACDL statement….
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NACDL President Cynthia Orr Said Harris County Indigent-Defense System Needs Improvements
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers President Cynthia Orr said Harris County, which includes Houston, should implement a public defender office without delay for the benefit of the taxpayers and the defendants. Her statements, along with fellow attorney Norman Lefstein’s were published on September 25th, 2009, by the Houston Chronicle. The county has struggled in…
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NACDL Releases Report on Criminal Costs of Treatment and Reform
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers released a report on the value of problem-solving courts, a topic that is often debated among criminal defense lawyers. Some think the courts are a much-needed advancement, while others disagree, saying they are destroying the system. The two-year, volunteer-run project includes a history and evolution of drug courts, evaluates their…
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NACDL President Cynthia Orr Said ‘Getting It Right’ in Criminal Cases is Crucial
As reported by The Champion, newly elected National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers President Cynthia Orr said it is crucial criminal cases are prosecuted correctly because they can be a public safety issue or a civil rights issue. In the President’s Column, Orr said it is important courts display fidelity to the Constitution, which then holds the power of…
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Attorney Cynthia Orr Sworn in as 51st President of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
As reported by The Champion, San Antonio criminal defense attorney Cynthia Orr was sworn in as the 51st president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Orr has served on the NACDL’s Executive Committee for more than four years, previously holding the offices of president-elect, first vice president, second vice president, secretary and treasurer,…
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Attorney Gerry Goldstein Featured in Hunter S. Thompson’s “Kingdom of Fear”
Author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson documented his past with a collection of stories in “Kingdom of Fear,” including a letter from longtime friend attorney Gerry Goldstein. Goldstein’s 2002 letter to Thompson is a mixture of a friend reaching out to another and questioning the power of local and federal governments. The attorney tells the writer…
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Gerry Goldstein Representing the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
As reported by USA Today on April 11th, 2008, attorney Gerry Goldstein is representing the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a polygamist sect whose religious compound in West Texas was searched. Authorities searched the 1,700-acre compound after a 16-year-old girl called a family violence shelter to report that her 50-year-old husband raped and…
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Attorney Cynthia Orr Discusses Odds of U.S. Supreme Court Granting Certiorari
As reported by the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, attorney Cynthia Orr said there are persuasive ways to increases the odds of the U.S. Supreme Court granting certiorari. More than 7,000 petitions are filed each year, so most of the justices divide their initial reviews among the clerks each week on a random basis. The…
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