CDRC Subscriptions

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SADO's Criminal Defense Resource Center has provided essential tools to criminal defense attorneys for over thirty years, for low fees intended only to capture costs. Many of the CDRC's services draw upon the expertise and work product of SADO's staff attorneys, full-time appellate defenders practicing throughout the State of Michigan. Virtually all CDRC services are available to subscribers online, 24/7, with new subscription years starting each October. For subscription year 2011-12, we've held the line on the cost of a full web services subscription: the annual fee of $190 gives you access to all of the features listed below. Please use our form to start your own subscription.

For criminal defense attorneys and the general public:

Searchable databases containing trial, appellate, and federal pleadings for use as models in both substance and form;
Summaries of appellate decisions (including unpublished opinions of the Michigan Court of Appeals) specific to criminal defense practice;
All new "Community" pages organized geographically, containing information about the courts, including video interviews with local judges and practitioners, links to local attorneys and regularly updated information about referrals, successes, and second chair training opportunities;
The well-known CDRC practice manuals, the "Blue Books:" Defender Trial, Sentencing, Motions, and Habeas Books, all editions searchable online (including archived earlier editions);
A "Features" secition on the new web site providing up-to-date information and articles from the Criminal Defense Newsletter, including trial court successes, spotlights on individual attorneys, drunk driving defense tips from an expert, and much more;
A current calendar detailing training opportunities for defense attorneys.

For criminal defense attorneys only (in addition to the above):

Resumes of expert witnesses, and searchable excerpts of trial testimony of prosecution and defense experts covering a wide range of topics and expertise;
A new and improved "Forum," already considered an invaluable community by many practitioners, consisting of a group of hundreds of criminal defense attorneys communicating about criminal law topics;
An online video-visit scheduler, allowing MAACS-certified appointed appellate counsel to schedule video-conferenced visits with their incarcerated clients from SADO's offices in Detroit and Lansing to over 40 correctional facilities; and
Help@sado.org, access to an experienced criminal defense research attorney.