This manual would not have been possible without the generosity and expertise of Katherine Brady, a senior staff attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) in San Francisco, California.  Significant portions of this manual are adapted from her excellent and comprehensive work.  She has been an immigration attorney for over 20 years, and is a leading practitioner in the area of immigration law and crimes and coordinates the Ninth Circuit’s portion of the Defending Immigrants Partnership, collaboration between the ILRC and public defender offices.  She also authored California Criminal Law and Immigration (2004), one of the most definitive treatises on immigration law and crimes used by practitioners throughout the country.  She and the ILRC have been gracious in allowing us to use portions of their materials.  For more information on the ILRC and Katherine Brady, please refer to the resources listed in Appendix C.

Additional acknowledgement is due to Sarah Yatsko, the Washington Defender Association’s (WDA’s) Program Manager, for tremendous work in editing and overseeing the actual production of these materials.  Without Sarah’s oversight, these materials would never have made it into the hands and minds of those able to put them in good use.  Elizabeth Calvin, star editing attorney, also contributed valuable edits to significant portions of these materials, making the manual more accessible to attorneys and advocates for whom immigration law is often experienced as bad rocket science.  Lastly, thanks are also owed to Stacy Chen for her tireless and perfecting work of formatting this document.  Thank you to all of you and to WDA for its ongoing commitment to defending and advancing the rights of noncitizens in the criminal justice system.