On February 17, 2023, the Capital Commission determined that it will no longer allow live webcasts as an approved format for death penalty trainings. The Commission determined that live webinars do not offer the same interaction and learning experience as a live in-person activity, and with the pandemic being over, attorneys can now attend death penalty trainings in-person to comply with the certification requirements for appointment as counsel in capital cases. For these reasons, the Commission will only grant death penalty training credit for those programs that are held live in-person in 2023.
November 16 & 17th at the Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center in Lewis Center, OH
| Thursday, November 16 | ||
| 8:00a - 8:30a | Registration - Outside Ballroom Doors | |
| 8:30a - 8:45a | Introduction: Recent Death Penalty and Method of Execution Litigation Developments | David Stebbins – Columbus |
| 8:45a – 9:45 am | Caselaw Update – Ohio and US Supreme Courts | Russ Bensing - Cleveland |
| 9:45a - 10:45a | A View From the Trial Bench |
Judge Amy Corrigall-Jones, Retired, Summit County Court of Common Pleas |
| 10:45a - 11a | BREAK | |
| 11a - 12:30p | Investigating and Proving Intellectual Disability Claims: Record Collection; Testing; Adaptive Deficits |
Bob Stinson, Psy.D., J.D., LICDC-CS, ABPP – Columbus Rivka (Randy) Olley, PhD. – Baltimore, Maryland James Crates - Columbus |
| 12:30p - 1:30p | LUNCH - Provided On-Site Dining Room | |
| 1:30p - 2:30p | Death Penalty 101 - Review & Revisit the Basics | Paul Kuzmins, Cuyahoga County Public Defender’s Office - Cleveland |
| 2:30p - 2:45p | BREAK | |
| APPELLATE BREAKOUT |
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| 2:45p - 3:45p | Effective Brief Writing and Oral Argument in the Supreme Court of Ohio in Capital Cases |
Jeff Gamso – Cleveland Kim Rigby – Office of the Ohio Public Defender – (OPD) Columbus |
| 3:45p - 4:45p |
State v Bethel and other Developments in Litigating Post-Conviction Claims in State Court |
Melissa Jackson – OPD – Columbus Justin Thompson – Capital Habeas Unit (CHU) - Columbus |
| TRIAL BREAKOUT |
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| 2:45p - 3:45p | Aggressive and Meaningful Motion Practice at Trial |
Richard Cline –OPD Columbus Don Malarcik – Akron Noah Munyer - Akron |
| 3:45p - 4:45p |
Best Practices for Capital Trials: the ABA Guidelines and Supplemental Guidelines; and as Adopted by Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Appointment of Counsel in Criminal Cases |
Natalie Olmstead – CHU – Columbus Adam Rusnak – CHU - Columbus |
| 5p - 7p | Reception- On site in Foyer | |
| Friday, November 17th | ||
| 8:30a - 9:30 a |
Integrating the Mitigation Theme Into Counsel's Arguments at Trial |
Diane Menashe - Columbus Freidman, Menashe, Nemecek, and Long LLC |
| 9:30 - 9:45a | BREAK | |
| 9:45a - 10:45a |
Using Pretrial Motion Practice to Recognize, Fight and Eliminate Racial Bias and Make a Record |
Lisa Lagos – Capital Habeas Unit - Columbus Bridget Kennedy – Capital Habeas Unit - Columbus |
| 10:45a - 11:45p |
Representing Veterans: Unique Challenges and Record Collection |
Art Cody USN (Retired) Director of the Center for Veteran Criminal Advocacy
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| 12:00p - 1:00p | LUNCH - Provided On Site in Event Space | |
| 1p - 2p |
His Journey from Death Row to Freedom: Why We Do This Work |
Lamont Hunter – Cincinnati Erin Barnhart – CHU – Columbus Justin Thompson – CHU - Columbus |
| 2p – 3:15p |
Ohio’s Serious Mental Illness Exemption: Litigation Strategies; Additional Evaluations, Discovery, Preparing for and Conducting an Evidentiary Hearing; Negotiations; Appeals |
Tim Sweeney – Cleveland Lisa Lagos – CHU - Columbus |
| 3:15p - 3:30p | BREAK | |
| 3:30p - 4:30p | What’s Race Got to Do With It? Voir Dire and Trial Strategy in Today’s Political Atmosphere | Fred Benton, Jr. –Columbus |
Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center
100 Green Meadows Drive
Lewis Center, OH
The OACDL Room Block rate is $143 +tax per night.
SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION
ALL SCHOLARSHIPS HAVE BEEN FILLED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO A WAITLIST, PLEASE EMAIL AMY NICOL (amy@oacdl.org)
The Ohio Public Defender Office has generously provided twenty-five scholarships this year for Pro Bono and Public Defenders. Space is extremely limited this year. You will receive notification via email if you receive a scholarship.