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• Safe & Just Michigan
  From the October 2025 Criminal Defense Newsletter
• Ask an appellate attorney: Meaning of “lack of merit” language in Court of Appeals’ orders
  From the October 2025 Criminal Defense Newsletter
• Narcotic drugs: Penalties and special scoring provisions under Michigan law
  From the October 2025 Criminal Defense Newsletter
• Project Reentry: When should I start preparing and what should I do?
  From the October 2025 Criminal Defense Newsletter
• MAACS Roster Attorney to argue before the Michigan Supreme Court
  November 6, 2025 | Hall of Justice | Lansing, MI
• SADO is hiring! Apply now!
  Multiple positions open; application due dates vary by position
• SADO is hiring a Training Director!
  Applications are due by November 23, 2025.
• SADO seeks summer interns
  Applications are due by January 12, 2026 at 5 PM
• Jessica Zimbelman Receives Leo A. Farhat Outstanding Attorney Award
  The Ingham County Bar Association

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• SADO'S Juvenile Lifer Unit seeks legal and mitigation interns
  Applications accepted on a rolling basis
• The ABA’s Revised Ten Principles of Public Defense Delivery Systems: How Michigan is Meeting the Core Best Practices through Funding and Reform Established by the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission.
  From the January 2024 Criminal Defense Newsletter
• Op-Ed: Ensure kids in justice system have fair representation
  Detroit Free Press, January 24, 2024
• SADO client Crystal Mulherin exonerated!
  Wrongful Conviction Unit’s second exoneration since 2021
• SADO's Adrienne Young appointed to the MI Court of Appeals!
  Governor Whitmer appoints career public defender to the bench
• Breaking News: Decision holding mandatory life without parole unconstitutional for 18-year-olds is declared retroactive
  People v Poole (Docket No. 352569) decided January 18, 2024
• MAACS seeks summer interns/externs
  Applications are due by 3/1/24 at 5 PM
• SADO and MAACS roster attorneys to argue before MSC at January session
  January 10 & 11, 2024, Hall of Justice, Lansing, MI
• Court of Appeals expands criteria for youth custodial interrogation
  From the December 2023 Criminal Defense Newsletter
• Spotlight on: Christine Pagac
  From the December 2023 Criminal Defense Newsletter
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