At the board meeting of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) in New York this weekend, we were fortunate to be able to hear accounts of the Moussaoui, Yaser Hamdi, Jose Padilla and Lynne Stewart cases from their lawyers, two of whom flew to New York just to provide us with historical details of the cases, status updates, and details of unjust Government's conduct.

Congressman Bill Delahunt (D-Mass) also flew up to New York to receive our Champion of Justice award for his tireless work on the Innocence Protection Act. This is the second time in a month we have listened to Congressman Delahunt (we met with him in Washington in March as part of an NACDL legislative delegation which we wrote about here.) We are very impressed with Delahunt--he is a former elected District Attorney who truly cares about justice--from the Innocence Protection Act, to exposing proseuctorial and FBI misconduct and supporting grand jury reform, to upholding our civil liberties and opposing the Patriot Act.