OACDL Annual Death Penalty Seminar
November 14-16, 2018
Sheraton Suites in Columbus
13.50 hours, including 6.00 appellate hours (with breakout)
Overnight arrangements an be booked at the Sheraton with this link:
OACDL Death Penalty Seminar (OR copy and paste the following link into a web browser) https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/OACDLNovember2018
Online registration now open. For online seminar registration Register Now
Scholarship spots provided by the Office of the Ohio Public Defender are full.
For seminar brochure DP 1028 brochure
Wednesday, November 14 EVENING
7:00 - 8:00 pm
Mitigation Investigation and Presentation: What Mitigation Specialists Do; Guidelines for the Mitigation Function
Dorian Hall – Office of the Ohio Public Defender
Jim Crates –Granville
Thursday, November 15
8:00 - 8:30 am Registration
8:30 – 8:45 am
Introduction -Recent Death Penalty Developments: State and National; Remembrances (appellate hours)
David Stebbins – Columbus
8:45 – 10:00 am
Caselaw Update – Ohio and United States
Supreme Courts – Death Penalty and Criminal Law (appellate hours)
Russ Bensing – Cleveland
10:00 – 10:15 am BREAK
10:15 – 11:15 am
Establishing and Maintaining Good Relations With Client and Family:
Winning Trust and Avoiding McCoy Issues.
Randall Porter, Dorian Hall - Office of the Ohio Public Defender
Pamela Swanson – Office of the Federal Public Defender – Southern District of Ohio
11:15 – 12:15 pm
New Responsibilities for Zealous Representation
Mark Stanton - Cuyahoga County Public Defender
12:15 – 12:30 pm Presentation of Schumacher/Ketcham Award
12:30 – 1:30 pm LUNCH (PROVIDED)
1:30 – 2:30 pm
The ABA Guidelines and What They Mean for Trial Practitioners; Developing Best Practices for Capital Defense in Ohio – Ohio Supreme Court - Commission on Appointment of Counsel in Capital Cases
Richard Cline, Rachel Troutman – Office of the Ohio Public Defender - Columbus
John Martin – Office of the Cuyahoga County Public Defender - Cleveland
2:30 – 2:45 pm BREAK
2:45 – 3:45 pm
Keeping the State’s Junk Science Out of Your Trial
Cullen Sweeney - Office of the Cuyahoga County Public Defender – Cleveland
Eric Allen – Columbus
3:45 – 4:00 pm BREAK
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Racial Bias and the Importance of Consciousness for Capital Attorneys (appellate hours)Andrea Lyon, Valparaiso University Law School
5:00 - 6:00 pm Social Gathering – Sheraton
ALTERNATIVE APPELLATE TRACK
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
November 15, 2018
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Practice and Procedure in the Supreme Court of Ohio
Jason Macke – Reporter of Opinions – Supreme Court of Ohio
2:30 – 2:45 pm BREAK
2:45 – 3:45 pm
Brief Writing in the Supreme Court of Ohio: Getting It In: Getting it Won
Russ Bensing - Cleveland
3:45 – 4:00 PM BREAK – RETURN TO MAIN ROOM
Friday, November 16
8:30 – 10:00 am
How to Present a Compelling Mitigation Case
Diane Menashe – Columbus
Kort Gatterdam – Columbus
Bob Stinson, Psy. D., J. D. – Columbus
10:00 – 10:15 am BREAK
10:15 – 11:45 am
New Developments in DNA (appellate hours)
Dan Krane, Forensic Biometric Services, Inc., Fairborn, OH
11:45 – 1:00 pm LUNCH - ON YOUR OWN
1:00 – 2:30 pm
The Neurobiology of Trauma
Patty Van Eys, PhD. Nashville, TN
2:30 – 2:45 pm BREAK
2:45 – 4:15 pm
Storytelling Throughout the Capital Trial
Marc Bookman
Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, Philadelphia, PA