Death is Different XXIII (2017)

Death is Different XXIII (2017) FACDL’S TWENTY-THIRD DEATH PENALTY SEMINAR
Dates: March 16-18, 2017

ONLINE REGISTRATION ENDS ON 3/9/2017
ONSITE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE THE DAY OF THE SEMINAR

Speakers & Topics

Thursday, March 16, 2017

1:00 – 1:05 p.m………….Opening Remarks – Karen Gottlieb & Sonya Rudenstine

1:05 – 2:15 p.m………….Why Your Client Does Not Want to Go to Death Row (and One Way to Avoid it) – Henry Brown, Stephen Harper, & Herman Lindsey

2:15 – 3:45 p.m………….Life After Hurst? New Developments in Death Penalty Law, the New Statute and How to Use Them – Sonya Rudenstine (Moderator); Karen Gottlieb, Pete Mills, Billy Nolas (Panelists)

3:45- 4:00 p.m………….Networking Break & Snacks

4:00 – 5:00 p.m………….Epigenetics, The Biology Linking Traumatic History & Negative Late Life Outcomes – Dr. Zachary Kaminsky

5:00 – 6:00 p.m………….KEYNOTE: Justice Harry Anstead, retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida

Friday, March 17, 2017

7:30 – 8:30 a.m………….Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:30 a.m………….Eighth Amendment & the Death Penalty: What That Amendment Really Means and We Have the Stats to Prove It – Ben Cohen & Hannah Gorman

9:30 – 11:00 a.m………….Death Penalty Cases: How Are They Different and How to Create/Integrate Your Theme Throughout Litigation – Carey Haughwout & Terry Lenamon

11:00 – 11:15 a.m………….Networking Break

11:15 – 12:45 p.m………….Capital Resentencings: How to Prepare & How They Differ from Capital Trials/Sentencings – Marc Bookman & Danalynn Recer

12:45 – 1:45 p.m………….Lunch Buffet

1:45 – 2:45 p.m………….False Confessions: Involuntary and Way Beyond – Don Salzman

2:45 – 3:45 p.m………….Junk Science & How to Prove It – Chris Fabricant

3:45 – 4:00 p.m………….Networking Break

4:00 – 5:00 p.m………….Intellectual Disability & Affective Behavior: How to Recognize It When You Don’t See It – Dr. Joette James & Eliza Quesada

Saturday, March 18, 2017

9:00 – 10:00 a.m………….Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 a.m………….Taking Down the State’s Expert Witnesses – Dorothy Sims

10:00 – 10:10 a.m………….Networking Break

10:10 – 11:40 a.m………….Jury Selection: How to Get & Keep That Holdout Juror – David Lane

11:40 – 11:50 a.m………….Break & Snacks

11:50 a.m. – 12:50 p.m………….Juries by the Numbers: Systemic & Demographic Approaches to Jury Selection- Lois Heaney

12:50 – 1:00 p.m………….Closing Remarks – Sonya Rudenstine