California appellate projects
| First District | Second District | Third District |
| Fourth District | Fifth District | Sixth District |
The California appellate projects are 501(c)(3)[1] non-profit legal corporations under a contract with the Judicial Council of California or the California Court of Appeal[2] to provide legal services to indigent parties on appeal from criminal, delinquency, dependency and mental health judgments in their respective district. There are five appellate projects, of which the California Appellate Project operates a separate project, the California Appellate Project in San Francisco, to assist in death penalty cases.
The appellate projects are as follows:[3]
- The First District Appellate Project, covering the First District.
- The California Appellate Project, covering the Second District.
- The Central California Appellate Program, covering the Third and Fifth Districts.
- The Appellate Defenders Inc., covering the Fourth District.
- The Sixth District Appellate Program, covering the Sixth District.
- The California Appellate Project in San Francisco, a subsidiary of the California Appellate Project which covers the Second District[4], which provides assistance to private counsel appointed by the California Supreme Court to represent indigent defendants who have been sentenced to death by a California superior court.
- ^ Internal Revenue Service, Form 990 for First District Appellate Project EIN # 942984112.
- ^ Although most of the appellate projects are contracted by the districts of the Court of Appeal pursuant to Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.300(e) , the California Appellate Project - San Francisco is contracted directly by the Judicial Council. See California Appellate Project in San Francisco, About California Appellate Project.
- ^ California Courts website, Appellate Projects
- ^ https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/953920973_201906_990_2020091817310631.pdf Internal Revenue Service, Form 990 for California Appellate Project EIN # 953920973.]