Report Materials

2017 Final Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review the CJA

Executive Summary - 2017 Final Report of the CJA Review Committee
2017 Final Report of the CJA Review Committee (June 2018)
Report and Interim Recommendations Crosswalk
Interim Recommendations of the 2017 Ad Hoc Committee to Review the CJA

AO Resources and Materials

FY14 Statement of Judge Gibbons on the Judiciary Budget before the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Financial Services and General Government
FY13 Statement of Judge Gibbons on the Judiciary Budget before the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Financial Services and General Government
FY18 Statement of Judge Gibbons on the Judiciary Budget before the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Financial Services and General Government
FY15 Questions for the Record -- Responses from Judge Gibbons to the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Financial Services and General Government

Articles and Publications

Good Practices for Panel Attorney Programs in the U.S. Courts of Appeals (January 2006)
A History of the Criminal Justice Act of 1964 (2013)
Process and Progress: Reviewing the Criminal Justice Act (1995)
ABA Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System (February 2002)
Improving Public Defense Systems: Good Practices for Federal Panel Attorney Programs (June 2003)

Journal Articles

The Federal Criminal Justice Act of 1964: Catalyst in the Continuing Formulation of the Rights of the Criminal Defendant, N.D. Law Rev (1965) Vol. 41 Issue 6 Art. 1

Legal Authorities

CJA of 1963 Subcom No. 5, House Committee on Judiciary (1963)
Judicial Conference of the U.S., September 1937 Session
S. Rep. No. 91–790, 91st Cong., 2d Sess. at 18 (1970)
Criminal Justice Act of 1964 (Pub L. 88–455)
Criminal Justice Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3006A
Proceedings at the 1969 Judicial Conference (49 F.R.D. 347, 374)
Guidelines for Administering the CJA and Related Statutes
Report of the JCUS on the Federal Defender Program submitted to Judiciary Committees of Congress (March 1993)

Position Letters

Position Letter from Federal and Community Defender Offices (March 25, 2016)
Position Letter from Panel Attorney District Representatives (July 6, 2016)
Position Letter from Defender Services Committee (July 22, 2016)

Previous CJA Studies

Prado Committee Report (1993)
Prado Committee (1993) reprint in The Criminal Law Reporter Vol. 53. No.2
Oaks Committee Report (1968)
Allen Committee Report (1963)