Researchers will incur a charge to download briefs, but searching is free. This site also provides an early notification email service for subscribers. The site also displays concise notations on the home page about briefs recently added to the database. Another nice feature includes the subject indexing displaying with each brief annotation. Click on any of the indexing terms to receive other briefs on the same topic.
Researchers search by case name or docket number to retrieve matching items.
Then they download materials after purchasing them by credit card. The site says nothing about availability in California, but the home page links to records for two California cases. As mentioned above, searching the collection is limited to case name or number. I'd like to see the site offer keyword searching so that legal professionals can find records and briefs by issue. This site offers an excellent assortment of commentary, U.S. primary law, statistics, sample briefs, case summaries, and litigation guides on death penalty related topics containing motions, briefs, memoranda, strategies, case summaries, statistics and other trial documents.