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TEAM DEFENSE: THE BASICS & BEYOND

April 26 - 27, 2002

Ramada Inn and Conference Center

Nashville, Tennessee

 

AGENDA and STARTING POINT FOR PROGRAM MATERIALS    

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Friday, April 26

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.  Registration, Check-In & Continental Breakfast

                                            Welcome, Introduction to Program, and Instructions on Accessing and Using Program Material

Kelly Gleason, Moderator

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.            Case law Update and "Hot" Capital Case Issues

Robert Hutton and Mark Ward

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.          What to Do with a New Case:   Assembling a Defense Team and Beginning the Mitigation Investigation

Mary Ann Green, Chris Armstrong and Dave Keefe

10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.  Break

10:45 a.m. -11:45 a.m.          Your Capital Motion Practice

Millard Farmer

11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Lunch on your own.

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.            Mental Health Issues in Capital Cases

Kelley Henry and Kelly Branham

2:30 p.m.-  2:45 p.m.  Break

2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.            Evaluating and Accommodating Mental Retardation in Victims, Witnesses and Criminal Defendants

Nancy Cowardin

3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.            Litigating Daubert Issues in Tennessee

Bill Farmer

 

Saturday, April 27

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.  Check-In & Continental Breakfast

                                            Announcements, Program Overview

Kelly Gleason, Moderator

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.           Ethics: One Case, One Client

                                                David Siegel

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.         The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: Litigation Strategies

Sandra Babcock

10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.  Break

10:45 a.m. -11:45 a.m.         What Capital Jurors Think: What the Research Tells Us

Margaret Vandiver and Kelly Gleason

11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Lunch on your own.

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.            Teaching Behavioral Descriptive Voir Dire

Vince Aprile

2:30 p.m.-  2:45 p.m.  Break

2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.            Evaluating and Accommodating Learning Disabilities in Your Cases

Nancy Cowardin

3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.            Keynote: Transforming the Real World Issues into Legal and Constitutional Issues in Capital Cases

Millard Farmer

 

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