Welcome to Defense Map

May 26, 2022

We hope the sample Defense Maps linked below give a flavor of the wide variety of cases where they can help. Our Feedback and Helpline links are available for any inquiries or suggestions about our goal of making this tool useful in almost any criminal or delinquency case.

A. Sample Defense Maps in cases with new felony charges

Defense Map of Michael Peterson: A new felony charge with massive easily-missed mitigation including a compelling case for pretrial release.
Defense Map of Bert Redding: A new felony charge with both an innocence defense and substantial mitigation.
Defense Map of Charlie Calhoun: A new felony charge with an entrapment defense and substantial mitigation.
Defense Map of Pete Martinez: A new felony charge for a serviceman with PTSD and other mitigation.

B. Sample Defense Map in a new death penalty charge

Defense Map of Garry Dillon: A new capital murder case with both powerful mitigation and a defense on the merits.

C. Sample Defense Maps in sentence modification cases

Defense Map of Abigail Jenkins: An inmate’s powerful case for reconsideration of her sentence.
Defense Map of Nick Kowals: Another inmate’s compelling case for sentence modification.

D. Sample Defense Map in a postconviction case

Defense Map of Katie DeGroot: An inmate’s Map uncovers substantial questions about the adequacy of her representation and the advisement of rights at her pleas of guilty—along with persuasive support for a sentence modification.

E. Sample Defense Map in a postconviction actual innocence case

Defense Map of Jason Anderson: A wrongfully convicted innocent man’s Map gives invaluable opening guidance in undoing the mismanaged scientific evidence and other errors in his case.

F. Sample Defense Maps in delinquency cases

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