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
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
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
3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Litigating Daubert Issues in Tennessee
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
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: Litigation Strategies
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
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
3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Keynote: Transforming the Real World Issues into Legal and Constitutional Issues in Capital Cases