NACDL - The Constitutional Right to Trial: Organizing a National Movement to End the Trial Penalty Agenda

The Constitutional Right to Trial: Organizing a National Movement to End the Trial Penalty Agenda

Agenda for NACDL's Presidential Summit, The Constitutional Right to Trial: Organizing a National Movement to End the Trial Penalty, December 8-9 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC.

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Wednesday, December 8

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.	Check-in and Coffee
9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Introductory Remarks by NACDL President Martín Sabelli Opening Remarks on the Trial Penalty; Clark Neily (Cato), Brett Tolman (Right on Crime), Vikrant Reddy (CKI), and Cynthia Roseberry (ACLU)
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Panel One on Launching and Sustaining a National Campaign Cornell Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School – Moderator James Esseks, ACLU HIV/LGBT Project Lisa Foster, Fees & Fines Justice Center David Safavian, American Conservative Union Laura Porter, 8th Amendment Project
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.	Lunch, with Video Presentation from Fair Trials
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.	Panel Two on Launching and Sustaining a National Campaign Norman L. Reimer – Moderator Stu Loeser, Stu Loeser & Co. Michael Steel, Hamilton Place Strategies Gisel Aceves, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.	How Advocates, Elected Officials & Philanthropists can Join Together to End the Trial Penalty – Howard S. Jonas, President, Howard S. and Deborah Jonas Foundation
2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.	Solutions Panel Lucian Dervan, Belmont University College of Law; ABA Plea Bargaining Task Force – Moderator Kevin Ring, FAMM Somil Trivedi, ACLU Lars Trautman, Right on Crime Diane Goldstein, Law Enforcement Action Partnership
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Break
4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.	Race and the Trial Penalty Panel Rick Jones, Neighborhood Defender Service – Moderator Cornell Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School Cynthia Roseberry, ACLU Robert Rose, Advocate
5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.	Judicial Conversation about Judicial Complicity and the Trial Penalty Vikrant Reddy, Stand Together - Moderator Judge John Gleeson, U.S. District Court, E.D.N.Y. (former) (remote) Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams, Superior Courts of Georgia Judge Kevin Sharp, U.S. District Court, M.D. Tenn. (former)

Thursday, December 9

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Coffee
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Trial Penalty Research and Report Efforts Panel Nate Pysno, NACDL – Moderator Susan Walsh, Chair of NYSACDL Trial Penalty Task Force Jacquie Goodman, CACJ Trial Penalty Task Force Lucian Dervan, Belmont University College of Law Brandon Garrett, Duke Law
10:15 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.	Media Panel: "Reporting on the Trial Penalty" Martín Sabelli – Moderator Carrie Johnson, NPR (remote) C.J. Ciaramella, Reason Josie Duffy Rice, freelance; former President of The Appeal (remote)
11:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.	Keynote Discussion Andrew Crespo, Premal Dharia, and Brittany White, the Institute to End Mass Incarceration Robert Rose, Advocate
12:45 p.m. –1:45 p.m.	Lunch
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Panel on Comparative Legal Systems and the Trial Penalty Rebecca Shaeffer, Fair Trials Americas - Moderator Jenia Turner, SMU (remote) Stephen Andersson, U.S. State Department Laure Baudrihaye-Gérard, Legal Director, Fair Trials (Europe) (remote) Máximo Langer, UCLA School of Law (remote)
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	NEXT STEPS: Engaged/Guided Discussion – Opportunity for all to weigh in and participate to inform core groups subsequent preparation of the platform for the movement.