Indigent Defense Seminar

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Special Meetings and Events of the Virginia State Bar

Indigent Defense Seminar

Agenda

Ninth Annual Indigent Criminal Defense
Advanced Skills for the Experienced Practitioner


May 3, 2013
 

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updated 11/19/12

 

PROGRAM AGENDA

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
  REGISTRATION
            
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
  OPENING REMARKS
  The Honorable Cleo E. Powell
  Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

8:45 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
  Making the Most of a Preliminary Hearing
  Craig S. Cooley, Esq.
  Richmond, VA

9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
  BREAK

9:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
  Eyewitness Identification
  Karen Newirth, Esq.
  Eyewitness Identification Litigation Fellow
  Innocence Project
  New York, NY

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
  BOX LUNCHES - ALL LOCATIONS

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
  Field Tests, the ECIR2 and You
  Peter D. Greenspun, Esq.
  Greenspun Shapiro PC
  Fairfax, VA

  Delegate Scott A Surovell
  Surovell Isaacs Petersen & Levy PLC
  Fairfax, VA
                
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
  Scientific Methodologies for Drug Detection
  Barry K. Logan, Ph.D., DABFT
  National Director, Toxicological and Forensic Services
  National Medical Services, Inc.
  Willow Grove, PA
            
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
  BREAK

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
  Discovery, Plea Bargaining & Prosecutorial Misconduct
  Prof. Ellen Yaroshefsky
  Executive Director, Jacob Burns Ethics Center
  Cardozo School of Law
  New York, NY
            
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m
  Litigation Ethics:  Claims and Settlements
  Thomas E. Spahn, Esq.
  McGuire Woods LLP
  McLean, Virginia

4:45 p.m.
  CLOSING REMARKS
  Honorable Dennis W. Dohnal (Retired)
  Richmond, VA
 

** 7 hours of CLE credit, with 1 hour in ethics pending

Updated: November 19, 2012