NACDL - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Martin A. Sabelli
Board of Directors, President Executive Committee NACDL Foundation for Criminal Justice Board of Trustees, Trustee, Class of 2022
May 20, 2022
MartÃn Sabelli received his degrees from Harvard College (1985), the London
School of Economics and Political Science (1987), and Yale Law School
(1990). He currently has his own firm and has served, in the past, as a
Federal Public Defender, a partner of a national firm (Winston &
Strawn), the Director of Training of the Office of the San Francisco Public
Defender, and as a law clerk to the late Honorable Robert F. Peckham,
United States District Judge.
He has represented individuals in state and federal courts since 1993 in a
wide range of civil and criminal matters including complex federal white
collar criminal prosecutions, multi-defendant federal conspiracy cases,
federal and state gang-related prosecutions, and federal and state
death-penalty matters. These matters have included corporate internal
investigations in civil and criminal matters as well as matters pending
before the Securities and Exchange Commission, matters investigated and
prosecuted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, matters prosecuted
under the Racketeering and Corrupt Organization Act, and legal malpractice
matters.
He has taught for the National Criminal Defense College since 2001 and for
the Trial Advocacy Workshop of Harvard Law School, the National Institute
for Trial Advocacy, and the National Association of Criminal Defense
Lawyers (NACDL) as well as numerous other criminal defense and public
defense programs around the country and abroad.
He has also served as the Director of the Mexico Program for the National
Institute of Trial Advocacy. He regularly lectures on comparative criminal
justice issues and trains judges, prosecutors, and lawyers in Argentina,
Mexico, Chile, and Peru. He has also trained judges, prosecutors, and
lawyers in numerous other countries including Colombia, Bolivia, Nicaragua,
Tunisia and Egypt.
He has authored law review articles and practice guides on gang expert
issues, the dangers of self representation, expert witnesses, prosecutorial
discretion, and comparative law issues.
