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1 Crim. Just. 1 (1973)

handle is hein.journals/crijust1 and id is 1 raw text is: Highlights Our Criminal Justice Umbrella See page 2 What's On Tap for the Annual Meeting See page 3 State-by-state Box Score on Imple- mentation of ABA Standards See page 4 CLS Federal Criminal Code Report Sent to Hill See page 5 How Do You Feel About the Death Penalty? See page 6 CLS Committees: An Active Year See page 8 Our Debut THIS NEWSLETTER IS the first issue of what will be a quarterly publica- tion. It will be sent to all Criminal Law Section members - both regular and law student - as well as to state and local bar associations, ABA Judicial Administration Division members, and law schools. Through a regular news- letter we hope to keep you up-to-date on what's news in the Section and in the criminal law. We welcome your suggestions for material. Keeping Up With Legislation One of the biggest services the Section of Criminal Law performs is to monitor thousands of bills introduced at each session of the Congress. Each must be screened for criminal justice interest, and its potential for receiving serious action. The Staff Director maintains liaison with Senate and House Judiciary Com- continued on page 9 Copyright @ 1973 American Bar Association Approval Of Last Volume Spurs Nationwide Implementation Of ABA Standards At the ABA Midyear Meeting, Feb- ruary 1973, the House of Delegates gave final approval to the 17th and final volume of ABA Standards for Criminal Justice, thus ending the for- mulation stage of a massive project launched in 1964. Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark hailed approval of the Standards Relating to the Urban Police Function as paving the way for complete implementation of the Stan- dards, for which the Section of Crim- inal Law has had responsibility since 1968. Justice Clark has headed the Section's national implementation committee from its inception. The Section has worked with state and local bar associations, judicial groups, prosecutors, defense lawyers, legislators, attorneys general and con- cerned citizens to determine how to tap the potential of the Standards for attacking the ills of outmoded criminal justice systems. ABA Past President Leon Jaworski has called implementation the great- est challenge our profession has faced in this century. The newly-approved Standards now join the other 16 volumes in covering every phase of the criminal process from arrest to post-conviction appeals. Every state has now taken some steps toward implementation, al- though some programs are in the early planning stages. As Chief Justice Warren Burger has pointed out, the Standards are not an all or nothing package. The Stan- dards, he said in a 1970 speech, are not intended as a model code; but they supply a rich background of material from which sound and decent procedures can be developed. A comparative analysis of the Standards with a state's law, rule and practice is the first necessary step in implementation. As of March 1973 - * 18 states have completed or sub- stantially completed the analysis; * 12 more states have a compara- tive study actively underway; * 7 states have a project in the planning stages. The Section has provided matching funds for 24 of these analyses, supple- mented by state LEAA planning agency funds. Breakthroughs on several fronts at- test to the momentum which the impl- ementation program has been gaining. *FLORIDA BECOMES FIRST STATE TO IMPLEMENT STAN- DARDS BY FORMAL COURT RULE By order of the state supreme court, effective February 1, 1973, Florida became the first state to imple- ment most of the Standards by formal court rule. It is also the first of the three pilot implementation states picked by the Section in 1968 to substantially complete the job. Section Council members Albert J. Datz and Chester Bedell of Jackson- ville, and Robert M. Ervin, of Talla- hassee, along with former Section Chairman Louis B. Nichols, of Marco Island, were instrumental in launching the Florida program and shepherding it to its successful conclusion. *APPELLATE CITATIONS OF STANDARDS Over 1,200 appellate courts includ- ing a number of major U.S. Supreme Court cases have now cited the ABA Standards; innumerable lower courts have done the same. *ONE-VOLUME PRINTING OF STANDARDS The ABA Special Committee on continued on page 4

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