View source for California appellate projects

{{Short description|Government-funded organizations California which represent indigent defendants in certain appeals}}
[[File:California Courts of Appeal district map.svg|thumb|right|300px|Map of the districts of the California Courts of Appeal.
{|
|{{Color box|#000080|border=darkgray}} First District (First District Appellate Project)||{{Color box|#008000|border=darkgray}} Second District (California Appellate Project)||{{Color box|#800080|border=darkgray}} Third District (Central California Appellate Program)
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|{{Color box|#800000|border=darkgray}} Fourth District (Appellate Defenders Inc.)||{{Color box|#808000|border=darkgray}} Fifth District (Central California Appellate Program)||{{Color box|#008080|border=darkgray}} Sixth District (Sixth District Appellate Program)
|}]]

The '''California appellate projects''' are [[501(c)(3) organization|501(c)(3)]]<ref>[https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/942984112_201906_990_2021020517689059.pdf Internal Revenue Service, Form 990 for First District Appellate Project EIN # 942984112.]</ref> [[non-profit]] legal corporations under a contract with the [[California Courts of Appeal|California Court of Appeal]]<ref>{{CalRule|eight|8|300|(e)}}</ref> 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 project corporations, 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:<ref>[https://www.courts.ca.gov/13714.htm California Courts website, Appellate Projects]</ref>

* The [https://www.fdap.org/ '''First District Appellate Project'''], covering the First District.
* The [http://cap-la.org/ '''California Appellate Project'''], covering the Second District. The [https://capsf.org/ '''California Appellate Project in San Francisco'''], a part of the California Appellate Project,<ref>[https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/953920973_201906_990_2020091817310631.pdf Internal Revenue Service, Form 990 for California Appellate Project EIN # 953920973.]</ref> 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 courts|California superior court]], and is considered a separate appellate project by the [[Judicial Council of California]].
* The [https://www.capcentral.org/ '''Central California Appellate Program'''], covering the Third and Fifth Districts.
* [http://www.adi-sandiego.com/ '''Appellate Defenders Inc.'''], covering the Fourth District.
* The [http://sdap.org/ '''Sixth District Appellate Program'''], covering the Sixth District.

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