Who Can Subscribe to the IPDC Website
Anyone involved in criminal defense may subscribe to our web site. Members of the Indiana Public Defender Council may subscribe for free. Private criminal defense attorneys may subscribe for an annual fee of $100. Non-attorney criminal defense professionals (investigators, mitigation specialists, paralegals) may subscribe for an annual fee of $25.00. Subscribers may not be engaged in any law enforcement or prosecution activities of any kind, whether direct or indirect.
How to Obtain a Password to our Site
Print the internet subscription form (pdf), complete and mail or FAX (317-232-5524) it to the Council. If you have questions, e-mail Teresa Campbell or call her at 317-232-2490. Subscribers will receive a password to access the restricted area of our website. You may also sign up for our listservs (see below) using this form.
What Subscribers can access:
- IPDC Casebank
- IPDC Expert Directory
- IPDC Membership Directory
- IPDC Manuals and pamphlets
- Jury Instructions
- Defense motions and pleadings
- FAQs analyzing current legal topics of interest to defense attorneys
- Index of articles in the Indiana Defender since 1980
- Past issues of the Indiana Defender
- Memorandum on handling a Life Without Parole (LWOP) case, with supplementary documents
- Memorandum on handling a Death Penalty case, with supplementary documents
Listservs (optional; no charge for joining listservs):
- Defendnet (general discussion group for defense professionals)
- Lifeforce (for defense professionals involved in capital cases)
- Juvlaw (for defense professionals handling juvenile cases)
- DNA defense (use of DNA testing/results)
- Appealnet (for defense professionals handling appeals)
