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Important Organizations
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Office of Defender Services
- Ohio Public Defender
- Capital Defense Network
- National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
- Innocence Project
- Death Penalty Information Center
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- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
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- National Legal Aid and Defender Association
- Families Against Mandatory Minimums
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- Federal Prison & Post Conviction Blog
- Fourth Amendment.com
- Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty
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- The Open File: Prosecutorial Misconduct & Accountability
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About Me
- Jeff Gamso
- Criminal defense lawyer, former public defender, civil libertarian (former Legal Director of American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio), anti-death penalty activist, public speaker. Now mostly retired from the active practice of law. My first career was English Professor. I studied medieval and renaissance English Literature, taught literature, film, and composition. I've been a film critic. NONE OF WHAT APPEARS IN THIS BLOG SHOULD BE TAKEN AS LEGAL ADVICE. ALSO, PLEASE NOTE THAT THE STUFF I WRITE IS MINE ALONE. I STAND MORE OR LESS BEHIND IT, BUT I DO NOT SPEAK FOR ANY OTHER LAWYER OR ANY GROUP OF LAWYERS - OR ANYONE ELSE, FOR THAT MATTER.
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