Asian American Criminal Trial Lawyers Association

08/13/2024

Join us for AACTLA’s 8th Annual Gala this Thursday August 15th! In honor of this year’s theme “A Legacy of Justice”, we are excited to announce our keynote speaker Dr. Karen Korematsu. See you all there!

07/16/2023

🚨TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE 🚨 Please join us for AACTLA’s 7th Annual Gala on Thursday, August 31st!
In celebration of this year’s theme “Lift as you rise”, we are pleased to announce the Honorable Judge Michelle Tong will be our keynote speaker! We look forward to seeing you all there!

07/03/2021

We’ve heard this story before. More police are not the answer.

06/30/2021

Interested in becoming a Restorative Dialogue Facilitator? Re:Store Justice will be offering free training beginning August 2021. If interested, complete the application by Friday, July 12, 2021 no later than 5:00 PM. Link for application: https://t.co/1BWU34Q2IH?amp=1

“Are you interested in becoming a Restorative Dialogue Facilitator? Re:Store Justice will be offering free training beginning August 2021. If interested, please complete the application by Friday, July 12, 2021 no later than 5:00 PM. Link for application: https://t.co/1BWU34Q2IH”

06/11/2021

Former AACTLA board member Ji Seon Song shining a desperately needed spotlight on policing in the emergency room in the Harvard Law Review.

Criminal Law Policing the Emergency Room Article by Ji Seon Song Jun 10, 2021 134 Harv. L. Rev. 2646 Tweet Facebook Print PDF The problems of policing extend beyond the street and into areas of our lives that are often hidden from view. This Article focuses on how policing affects people in one such...

05/03/2021

JOB POST: Alameda County Public Defenders is recruiting for their Deputy Public Defender position. They are seeking dedicated and experienced felony attorneys, who are able to handle litigation of all types with the exception of special circumstance homicides. Felony trial experience is essential.

Apply by May 17 at 5pm PDT: http://ow.ly/NRcm50EChtv

05/02/2021

Join us on Wednesday May 19, 2021 at 5:30pm for a special healing circle for self-identified womxn AAPI defenders held by board member Christine Start, a Solano County Deputy Alternate Defender. Besides being a bad-ass public defender, Christine is also a certified professional coach for visionary womxn of color lawyers and leaders, an adjunct lecturer at UC Davis School of Law, and serves on multiple boards serving the AAPI community.

Space is limited so RSVP soon by email and paypal (sliding scale $5-25) to [email protected].

04/20/2021

Paralegal positions open for Solano County Public Defender and Alternate Defender https://www.jobapscloud.com/Solano/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1=21&R2=413300&R3=01

04/16/2021

We barely finished writing about the police killing of Daunte Wright when I watched the body cam footage of 13-year old Adam Toledo killed by police. Even though we center the conversation on Black lives, police violence against BIPOC communities more broadly is prevalent and heart-wrenching.

This is the final paragraph of our statement:

"It is the systematic dehumanization of Black lives by a system that upholds white supremacy that led to the killing of Oscar Grant and George Floyd. It is our complicity in this system led to the killing of Daunte Wright. It is our responsibility to speak out and change, reform, and dismantle said system. Because at this point, it is not a question of *if* the police will kill another Black person, but *when*."

RIP Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, Iremamber Sykap, and countless others.

04/15/2021

We send our deepest condolences and support to the loved ones and community of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. We continue to stand in solidarity with the Black community as their fight for change and justice continues.

We also send our support to the loved ones and community of Iremamber Sykap, a Micronesian teenager who was killed by Honolulu PD last week.

04/13/2021

We are devastated and outraged at the murder of Daunte Wright, a 20 year old Black man, father, son and neighbor, who was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police yesterday. We stand with his family and all those grieving who need justice, not the unleashing of more militarized violence on traumatized communities. All people deserve to feel safe going about our daily activities, and we know that none of us are safe until we all are.

We also know that in these moments, a focus on property damage is often used to distract from the loss of life. Let us not lose sight that we must center Daunte Wright's life and the demands of his family and community, as we call for justice and an end to all systems rooted in dehumanization, control and violence. We ask all our Asian American communities to stand in solidarity as we continue to say unequivocally that and work for a world where all of us can live with freedom and dignity in safe and caring communities.

Contribute to the GoFundMe organized by Daunte's family. Funds will go to Daunte's funeral expenses and to the future care of his son, Daunte JR.: https://www.gofundme.com/f/dauntewright



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