Capital Litigation Improvement Initiative

The Capital Litigation Initiative is an initiative of President Bush administrated by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to provide training and technical assistance to state trial judges to improve the reliability of verdicts in capital cases and to assist state trial judges in managing capital cases.

As part of this initiative, The National Judicial College has provided educational training to individual states and is creating a publication for judges on managing a capital case. This website is The National Judicial College’s effort to provide resources to state trial judges on capital cases.

This web site is funded through a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this web site (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided).