California Appellate Project (San Francisco)

Attorney

• Oversee a caseload of unrepresented incarcerated capitally sentenced people
• Conduct intake and initial record collection for new clients
• Work with trial counsel, collect trial files, and draft Case Information Reports
• Become familiar with case facts and briefing, evaluate cases for Racial Justice Act review and second look sentencing, and review transcripts or supervise law student interns
• Maintain ongoing contact with clients, families, and witnesses
• Gather records and life history documents and locate witnesses
• Assist incarcerated clients with administrative appeals and other prison issues
• Train and supervise law and paralegal students
• Serve as research attorney on document gathering and records collection, including CPRA, FOIA, and HIPAA issues
• Prepare for and participate in CAP's New Case Trainings
• Conduct interdisciplinary research and continuing education
• Assist with urgent, time-sensitive UCIP and CAP projects
• Travel to correctional facilities around California to meet with clients
• Provide vigorous advocacy for indigent death row inmates challenging convictions and sentences on direct appeal and through habeas corpus proceedings

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