CAL's Books Beyond Bars Project is having a fundraiser this March! Consider donating here.

 

Read CAL's amicus brief filed in the New York Court of Appeals in People v. Corey Dunton, addressing flaws in NY's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standards, here.

  

Governor Hochul commutes the sentences of three CAL clients & pardons another. Read the details here.

 

CAL in The courts

A look at our clients and their successes

Bronx Supreme Court reduces sentence following successful CPL 440.20 motion

AD1 reduces CAL client's risk-level assessment.

AD1 strikes SORA points assessment because it violated client's Fifth Amendment rights.

AD1 reverses CAL client's weapon-possession conviction and dismisses indictment, finding his possession temporary and innocent.

AD1 finds CAL client innocently possessed a weapon

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