Capital Defenders

The OCDLA Capital Defenders is a resource for lawyers involved in death penalty work. The Capital Defenders generally work to facilitate the exchange of information among death penalty practitioners. Capital Defender membership is open only to OCDLA members. Download a Capital Defenders brochure.

Capital Defender Password-Protected Collaborative Website

Co-sponsored by OCDLA and the Oregon Capital Resource Center, the workspace contains capital defense training information, defense pleadings and legal materials, case tacking information, capital defense advocacy materials, and other information helpful to capital defense teams (attorneys, mitigation specialists, and investigators). The workspace also contains the materials previosly maintained in the OCDLA Death Penalty Library, including materials from Oregon cases provided by capital defense teams. Free.

Capital Defender Listserve

A forum for discussion between lawyers, periodic updates on new documents in the death penalty library as well as advance notice of death penalty seminars.

Death Penalty Seminars

OCDLA death penalty seminars feature high quality death penalty litigators and related professionals from around the country. Death penalty lawyers come together to enhance their skills, share tips of the trade and network. Oregon attorneys who want to do indigent death penalty work are required by the Office of Public Defense Services to attend at least one death penalty seminar per year.

Capital Defender Resources

Oregon Capital Resource Center
Capital Defender Collaborative Website