Free Criminal Legal Research on Some Web Sites

Below are a list of web sites which offer free motions and briefs and
often ideas and strategies and defense theories:

D,C. Federal Defender http://www.dcfpd.org

Texas Federal Defender http://www.fpd.home.net

Washington/Idaho Federal Defender (http://www.fdewi.org/
This excellent defender site includes a motion bank; you'll have to call to get a password.)

capital defense site (http://www.lidab.com/motions.htm) for a whole raft of over 90 downloadable motions, many that can be customized and used in non-capital cases.

Texas Defender http://www.texasdefender.org/motions.htm site also has a number of free downloadable motions, as does the

Colorado Public Defender.

US Defenders library: http://tinyurl.com/rjkyo

Florida Public Defender http://www.flpda.org/ has a number of capital defense motions downloadable in Word.

This public defender Ohio Defender http://www.opd.ohio.gov/ site has some motions re mental retardation in death penalty cases. See Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002). With regard to expert testimony, to see how one might raise a Daubert issue, take a look at these motions to exclude DNA evidence (1), (2) and handwriting, hair, and fiber analysis (1).

http://www.fd.org/pdf_lib/Chemistry_MethIssues.pdf - great theories on defending unwinnable manufacturing cases......also free expert advise available.