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The Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers will be hosting the Annual Death Penalty Seminar Thursday-Friday, November 19-20, 2020. We had planned on having both virtual and in-person training. That has since been changed to ALL virtual training.
We have requested 13.00 general CLE hours, including 7.25 appellate training, from the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Online registration is available now. The cost is $375.00 for OACDL members; $425.00 for non-members.
All scholarship spots provided by Office of the Ohio Public Defender have been filled.
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If you prefer to mail in a registration form, click here to download the form Dp 2020 Reg Form
AGENDA
CAPITAL DEFENSE SEMINAR
November 19-20, 2020
Columbus, Ohio
Thursday, November 19
8:00 - 8:30 am Welcome
8:30 – 9:00 am
Introduction -Recent Death Penalty and Method of Execution Litigation Developments: State and National
Speaker: David Stebbins – Columbus
9:00 – 10:15 am
Caselaw Update – Ohio and United States Supreme Courts
Speaker: Russ Bensing – Cleveland
10:15 – 10:30 am BREAK
10:30 – 12:00
State v. Ford; Litigating Intellectual Disability Claims; Retroactivity
Speakers: Randall Porter, Kathryn Sandford, Dorian Hall
Office of the Ohio Public Defender - Columbus
12:00 – 1:00 pm LUNCH
1:00 – 2:00 pm
A View From the Bench
Speaker: Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor and Justices of the Supreme Court of Ohio
2:00 – 2:15 pm BREAK
APPELLATE BREAKOUT
2:15 – 3:15 PM
Effective Brief Writing and Oral Argument in the Supreme Court of Ohio
Speaker: John Martin – Cuyahoga County Public Defender’s Office
Richard Cline – Chief Counsel – Death Penalty Department
Office of the Ohio Public Defender
3:15 - 4:45 pm
Developing the Record in Post-conviction
Speakers: Randall Porter – Office of the Ohio Public Defender
Brian Howe – Ohio Innocence Project
Joanna Sanchez – Office of the Ohio Public Defender
TRIAL BREAKOUT
2:15 - 3:15 PM
Understanding the Science: Eyewitness Memory and Identification.
Speaker: Prof. Nancy Franklin
3:15- 4:30 PM
Trying Capital Cases in the Era of Covid-19: Obtaining Resources in Times of Tight Budgets; Fighting for Safe Trials
Speaker: Joe Gorman - Akron
Friday, November 20
8:30- 9:30 am
Implicit Bias: Recognizing It and Dealing with It in Your Cases and on Your Teams
Speaker: Lisa Lagos, Julie Roberts - Capital Habeas Unit Office
of the Federal Public Defender Southern District of Ohio
Kelly Capatosto – Kirwan Institute – Columbus
9:30-10:30 am
What’s Race Got to Do With It? Voir dire in the Era of Black Lives Matter and Covid-19.
Speaker: George Chaney, Jr. - Columbus
Fred Benton, Jr. – Columbus
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:45
State v. Bates –Recognizing and Litigating Claims of Racial Bias throughout the Criminal Justice System.
Speakers: Alexis Hoag
Columbia Law School – New York, New York
11:45-12:00 Presentation of Schumacher – Ketcham Award
12:00 – 1:00 pm LUNCH
1:00 – 2:45 pm
Understanding Dissociation: A Link to Mitigation?
Speaker: Patti Van Eys, Ph.D. – Nashville, Tennessee
2:45 – 3:00 pm BREAK
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Mitigation Investigation and Presentation: Themes; Guidelines; Trauma; Investigation in a Pandemic
Speakers: Dorian Hall – Office of the Ohio Public Defender
Jim Crates –Granville