Death Penalty Seminar

Nationwide Conference Center

The death penalty committee has put together a fantastic agenda again this year! We will be at Nationwide Conference Center, 100 Green Meadows Drive South, Lewis Center, OH 43035. We have reserved a block of rooms at the rate of $137.00/night (not including tax). The link to reserve a room: Click Here to Book Rooms for the 2022 OACDL Death Penalty Conference

OACDL will be applying for scholarships made available through the Office of the Ohio Public Defender for attorneys who have represented a criminal case in Ohio on a pro bono basis, or for full-time staff employees of a public defender agency. Scholarships must be applied for using the scholarship registration form. Once we know the status of the scholarships, we will post the form. Please do not register online for a scholarship. Scholarship applications MUST be on approved registration form.

Online registration for the seminar is now open! Register Now

To download the brochure: 2022 DP Brochure

To print out and mail/fax registration form with payment, click here: DP 2022 Registration Form

To download the agenda, click here: 2022 DP Agenda

AGENDA

Thursday, November 17th
8:00 - 8:30a	Registration
8:30 - 9:00a	Introduction - Recent Death Penalty and Method of Execution Litigation Developments Speaker: David Stebbins
9:00 - 10:15a	Caselaw Update - Ohio and US Supreme Courts Speaker: Russ Bensing, Cleveland
10:15 -10:15a	Break
10:30a - 12:00p	Uncovering & Explaining Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Trauma Speakers: Bob Stinson, Psy.D, Columbus Howard Fradkin, Ph.D., Columbus
12 - 1p	Lunch
1:00 - 2:30p	Using Social Media for Mitigation Investigation & Presentation Speakers: Mitigation Specialists Dorian Hall, OPD, Columbus Lea Pagels, OPD, Columbus Jim Crates, Columbus
2:30 - 2:454p	Break
APPELLATE BREAKOUT
2:45 - 3:45p	Effective Brief Writing & Oral Argument in the Supreme Court of Ohio in Capital Cases Speakers: Jeff Gamso, Cleveland Kim Rigby, OPD, Columbus
3:45 - 4:45p	State v Bethel and other Developments in Litigating Post-Conviction Claims in State Court Speakers: Rachel Troutman, OPD, Columbus Justin Thompson, Capital Habeas Unit, Columbus
TRIAL BREAKOUT
2:45p - 3:45p	Aggressive and Meaningful Motion Practice at Trial Speakers: Richard Cline, OPD, Columbus Don Malarcik, Akron Noah Munyer, Akron
3:45 - 4:45p	What's Race Got to do With Capital Trials? Speakers: Fred Benton, Columbus George Chaney, Federal Public Defender Office, Columbus

Friday, November 19th
8:30 - 10:00a	Ohio’s Serious Mental Illness Exemption: Overview; Litigation Strategies after the Petition is Filed; Additional Evaluations, Discovery, Preparing for and Conducting an Evidentiary Hearing Speakers: Lisa Lagos, CHU, Columbus Elise Grifka Wander, OPD Columbus Tim Sweeney, Cleveland Randall Porter, OPD, Columbus
10:00 - 10:15a	Break
10:15 - 11:15a	What Influences Death Penalty Jurors’ Moral Decision-Making? Speaker: Professor Meredith Rountree, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
11:15 - 12:15p	A View from the Trial Bench Speaker: Judge Amy Corrigall-Jones, Retired, Summit County Court of Common Pleas
12:15 - 1:15p	Lunch
1:15- 2:30p	Ethics and Best Practices for Capital Litigators: the ABA Guidelines and Supplemental Guidelines Speakers: Natalie Olmstead, CHU, Columbus Adam Rusnak, CHU, Columbus
2:30 - 2:45p	Break
2:45-4:00p	Media Relations in Capital Cases: Early Decisions in Storytelling and Narrative Development. Moderator: David Stebbins, Columbus Speakers: Dale Baich – Phoenix, Arizona Marty Schladen – Ohio Capital Journal – Columbus Ngozi Ndulue – Deputy Director -Death Penalty Information Center – Washington, D.C.

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