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TCDLA is proud to announce as one of TCDLA’s member benefits, the TCDLA app has been updated from the TCDLA Annotated 2019-2020 Code of Criminal Procedures and Penal Code.

Events

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Jan, 2021
8th Annual Lone Star DWI: DWI Defense & COVID
Livestream Event

Austin, TX
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Jan, 2021
Mindful Monday
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Austin, TX
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Feb, 2021
Veterans Co-sponsored W/SBOT Military & Veterans Law Section
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Austin, TX
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GRANT M. SCHEINER

TCDLA President
If it were revealed that Texas prisons and jails had failed to prevent more than 200 people (and counting) from suffocating during 2020, it would be an international outrage. Yet that’s what appears to be happening, according to a new study from the University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (UT-LBJ-PA).1 Will this disgrace continue or will the State of Texas put a stop to it?
 
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AMICUS CURIAE

TCDLA's Amicus Curiae Brief Committee provides amicus assistance in state and federal courts in cases that present important issues to criminal defendants, defense lawyers, and the criminal justice system.

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declaration Readings - July 2, 2021

Since 2010, Texas criminal defense lawyers have gathered on courthouse steps across the state early each July to publicly read the Declaration of Independence. The tradition—unlike any other in the nation—is supported by members of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.

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