September 09, 2019

    ABA CJS Plea Bargaining Task Force

    Who We Are

    The American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section is pleased to announce the creation of a task force to more closely examine the role of plea bargaining in our modern system of criminal justice.  Its goal is to develop both broad policy oriented goals for the criminal justice system and, where necessary, specific recommendations for changes in the way plea bargaining operates within the larger criminal justice environment.  These issues will be examined from the perspective of all those involved in the criminal justice system, including prosecutors, defenders, defendants, judges, victims, and others.   

    Presentations

    The speakers below gave presentations on race and the criminal justice system to the CJS Plea Bargain Task Force on September 25, 2020. 

    Members

    Lucian Dervan (Co-Chair), Belmont University College of Law                                    

    Russell Covey (Co-Chair), Georgia State University  College of Law                 

    Thea Johnson (Reporter), University of Maine School of Law

    Hon. Kimberly Esmond Adams, Superior Court of Fulton County

    Derwyn Bunton, Chief District Defender, Orleans Public Defenders

    Prof. Vanessa Edkins, Florida Institute of Technology

    A. J. Kramer, Federal Public Defender

    Jenny Kim, Deputy General Counsel & VP, Public Policy, Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC

    Marc Levin, Vice President, Criminal Justice, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Right on Crime

    William H. McDermott, Deputy State’s Attorney, Office of the State’s Attorney for Wicomico County

    Clark Neily, Vice President for Criminal Justice, CATO Institute 

    Vanessa Potkin, Director, Post-Conviction Litigation, The Innocence Project 

    Norman Reimer, Executive Director, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Foundation for Criminal Justice

    Hon. Victoria Roberts, United States District court, Eastern District of Michigan

    Rebecca Shaeffer, Senior Lawyer (Americas), Fair Trials (Americas)

    Adnan Sultan, Staff Attorney, The Innocence Project

    Jonathan Wroblewski, US Department of Justice