The Criminal Docket

Welcome to NACDL's podcast series, "The Criminal Docket," hosted by Ivan J. Dominguez, NACDL's senior director of public affairs & communications. NACDL is the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is well-known to many as "Liberty's Last Champion." Each episode of "The Criminal Docket" explores important items on the criminal justice agenda, in-depth, with top leaders in the legal practice, public policy, journalism, academia, and others whose lives intersect with the criminal justice system.

#64: Interview with Alabama criminal defense attorney Richard S. Jaffe, author of the NACDLPress publication, “Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned” 2nd Ed. 04/30/2021

#63: Interview with Founder and Executive Director of Civil Rights Corps Alec Karakatsanis, author of “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System” 03/19/2021

#62: Interview with NYU School of Law Professor Rachel E. Barkow, Author of "Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration" 10/31/2019

#61: Televerde, the Arouet Foundation, and Second Chances for Women Coming Out of Incarceration 07/26/2019

#60: Federal Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton’s Important New Book, "51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law" 02/06/2019

#59: Criminal Discovery Reform Efforts in Virginia 05/24/2018

#58: NAACP President & CEO Derrick Johnson on Clemency, Collateral Consequences, and Criminal Justice Reform 05/22/2018

#57: Episode Fifty-Seven – The Right to Counsel: A Conversation with Utah Judge Michael W. Kwan 04/13/2018

#56: Forthcoming Documentary: "In The Executioner’s Shadow" 04/09/2018

#55: "The Feminine Sixth: Women for the Defense" 02/28/2018

#54: "The War on Kids," an Essential New Book by Professor Cara Drinan 11/01/2017

#53: South Carolina’s Sixth Amendment-Free Zones 10/18/2017

#52: NACDL’s First Amendment Strike Force and Mass Defense Unit 09/19/2017

#51: Packingham v. North Carolina: Collateral Consequences at the High Court 04/20/2017

#50: Professor Suja A. Thomas on "The Missing American Jury" 11/21/2016

#49: United States v. FedEx Corp.: The Billion Dollar-plus Criminal Case that Simply Wasn’t 08/22/2016

#48: United States v. Clay: A Case Study in Overcriminalization and Unchecked Prosecutorial Discretion 01/15/2016

#47: Harry C. Alford, President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce 06/02/2015

#46: Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s "Guantánamo Diary" 02/05/2015

#45: The Fishy Case of Yates v. United States Now Before the U.S. Supreme Court 10/29/2014

#44: Author Interview ~ "Not Guilty: The Unlawful Prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens" By Rob Cary 09/15/2014

#43: Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. Addresses NACDL Annual Meeting and Seminar 09/15/2014

#42: Criminal Justice and the Media: Covering Appellate Decisions 04/04/2014

#41: Criminal Justice and the Media: Covering Trials 04/04/2014

#40: Criminal Justice and the Media: Covering Criminal Justice Policy 04/04/2014

#39: Criminal Justice and the Media: Introduction 04/04/2014

#38: Investigator Marty Bugbee on Your Digital Trail 02/28/2014

#37: Human Rights Watch Report on The Trial Penalty in Federal Drug Cases 01/09/2014

#36: Congress’s Overcriminalization Task Force 12/12/2013

#35: Professor Norman Lefstein on the Federal Indigent Defense Crisis 11/15/2013