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Juvenile Justice. The Juvenile Justice Task Force [Judge Ernestine Gray, Chair; Kristin Henning,
Reporter]
This task force is addressing the interaction between the juvenile justice system and
other systems that provide youth services, such as education, welfare, foster care and health
care. It met in December 2009 and again in June 2010. While a project of the Juvenile Justice
Committee (rather than the Criminal Justice Standards Committee), the Task Force will bring its
proposed Standards to the Standards Committee for review prior to submission to the Council
and House of Delegates.
Supreme Court Notice of the Standards
The Standards were cited in three Supreme Court decisions during the Association Year: Bobby
v. Van Hook, decided in November 2009 (citing the Defense Function Standards); Padilla v.
Kentucky, decided in March 2010 (citing the Defense Function and Guilty Plea standards), and
Renico v. Lett, decided in May 2010 (citing the Discovery and Trial by Jury Standards).
Standards in Law Journals
The “black letter” Prosecutorial Investigation Standards, approved by the ABA House of Delegates
in February 2008 were published in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. See: 7 Ohio St. J.
Crim. L. 685, 694 (2010). Georgetown University’s American Criminal Law Reporter plans to
publish the “black letter” Treatment of Prisoner Standards (see above) in December 2010.
Standards’ Roundtables
Section Chair‐Elect Bruce Green is organizing a series of small, invitational roundtable
discussions of prosecutor and defender conduct, based on revisions proposed to the Standards
Committee by its Task Force on the Prosecution and Defense Function. Local prosecutors,
defense lawyers, judges and law professors will participate in the discussions, which will be
hosted and co‐sponsored by law schools around the country. The discussions will benefit from
articles prepared in advance on specific topics by academics. While not a formal project of the
Standards Committee, the Committee will have a representative at some of the sessions.
Standards Committee Members
The Standards Committee lost several valuable members during the course of the year, but for
good reasons. Judge Richard Callahan was confirmed as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District
of Missouri; James Cole was nominated as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and
Robert McWhirter will be in El Salvador for the next two years working on judicial reform in
that country.
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