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Check out the November Monthly digest on the OSAD website.

The October Criminal Law Digest is now available on the OSAD website under Publications.

The Criminal Law Digest for September 2024 is now available on the OSAD website.

Updates to the Criminal Pattern Instructions were posted to the Illinois Courts website in August.

The August Criminal Law Digest is now available on OSAD's Website.

The Office of the State Appellate Defender has posted the July Criminal Law Digest.

The June Criminal Law Summaries is now available on OSAD's website.

OSAD has posted the May case law update to their website.

The supreme court granted petition for leave to appeal in five new criminal cases before the end of May. Learn more...

IPDA Fall Seminar is back in Bloomington-Normal this coming November.

Congratulations to Chris Anderson of the Cook County Public Defender and James Waller of the Office of the State Appellate Defender for being awarded the Bruce Robert Jacobs Award---an award for public defenders from public defenders.

A National Public Defender Workload Study has just been released after a combined effort from the RAND Corporation, the National Center for State Courts, the American Bar Association‘s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, and Lawyer Stephen F. Hanlon.

The Illinois Supreme Court has announced the creation of the Illinois Judicial College Committee on Pretrial Education (CPTE) as a seventh Standing Committee of the Illinois Judicial College (Judicial College), elevating pretrial education from its current Pretrial Board Workgroup status in the Judicial College.

The Illinois Supreme Court unanimously declared a Cook County judge erred in preventing a man who once pleaded guilty to a murder from requesting a certificate of innocence after an investigation revealed police coerced his confession.