Making the Case for Life (2018)
CLE Credit: Up to 12 hours of self-study CLE credit, where authorized. Please confirm with your state's CLE commission to ensure this program is available for self-study CLE certification.
Program Summary: As part of being effective advocates for our clients, capital defense teams face the difficult challenge of confronting the issues presented by race from the moment we first meet with the client, begin to investigate the case, select a jury, make closing arguments, and through the penalty phase. Making the Case for Life (2018) is designed to help capital defenders, investigators, and mitigation specialists identify and confront issues of racial bias in the courts, the law enforcement community, by prosecutors, and even within the defense team. Criminal defense lawyers will learn about the tools necessary to confront and attack racial bias in death penalty cases. They will also learn cutting-edge presentations regarding pretrial investigations, new perspectives on discovering the story of the client and mitigation evidence.
Presentations Included:
1. Keynote Address: Racial Bias and the Importance of Consciousness for Capital Attorneys | Andrea D. Lyon
2. Dealing with Issues of Race in Closing Argument | Drew Findling
3. Using & Confronting Racism in Jury Selection | Mark O'Mara
4. Using Law Students to Assist in the Investigative Stages of a Capital Cases | Mark Osler
5. Investigating the Capital Case | Andrea D. Lyon
6. The Strike for Cause Method Intertwined With the Colorado Method | Robert Swafford
7. Pre-Trial Investigation: Guilt/Innocence and Mitigation | Anna Benson Hamilton & Doris Randle-Holt
8. How to Prepare and Break-Through With the Most Difficult Witness | Robert Swafford
9. Faith Themes in Death Penalty Cases | Mark Osler
10. Investigating & Presenting Mental Health Issues | Stephen Ross Johnson
11. Mitigation in Capital Cases: Revealing the Rest of the Story | Emily Hughes
12. Theme & Theory at the Penalty Phase | Stephen Ross Johnson
13. Intellectual Disability: Navigating the Minefield of Information | Mike Scholl
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Prices
- List Price $179.00
- Member Price $159.00