Agenda & Materials

10:00-10:30    
Registration
Please sign in at the registration desk with your bar number if you are seeking CLE credit.

10:30-12:00    
The Art of Storytelling

Melissa Fay Greene, celebrated author of No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (2011), There is No Me Without You (2006), Last Man Out (2003), The Temple Bombing (1996), and Praying for Sheetrock (1991)

(Introduced by Millie Dunn)

Suggested Readings:

The Art of Creative Writing and The Art of Dramatic Writing, Lajos Agri

Story, Robert McKee

The Screenwriter's Notebook and Screenplay, Syd Field

Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters, Michael Tierno
The Seven Basic Plots, Christopher Booker



12:00-12:15    
Rosa's Pizza Lunch

12:15-12:45    
So What's the Story?  CJA Panel Update and Other Hot Topics such as Johnson Developments, Cert Grants, Guidelines Amendments & the New Crime of Violence Definition   
Leigh Finlayson, Nicole Kaplan, Millie Dunn


Materials/Important Links:
Cert Grants - Offense Elements
Cert Grants - Predicates
Crime of Violence Sentencing Guideline Amendment Effective Aug 1
Sentencing Guideline Amendments Effective November 1
Sentencing Reform Act of 2015, House Version
Sentencing Reform Act of 2015, Senate Version

12:45-1:15      

The Psychology of Criminal Law and Its Impact on Our  Clients' Stories
Daniel Myerson
(Introduced by Stephanie Kearns)

Materials/Suggested Reading:
Implicit Bias Tests, Project Implicit
Jennifer Eberhardt, Paul G. Davies, Valerie J. Purdie-Vaughns, Looking Deathworthy:  Perceived Sterotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts Capital-Sentencing Outcomes (2006)
Daniel S. Nagin, Deterrence in the Twenty-first Century:  A Review of the Evidence (2013)
Ana Swanson, The U.S. Court System is Criminally Unjust, Washington Post (July 20, 2015)
Terrence Williams v. Pennsylvania, Certiorari Petition, Federal Community Defender, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (November 30, 2015)

1:15-2:30  

We Wear the Mask:  Voices from Behind the Scholar Identity Veil      
Dr. Gilman Whiting, Professor of African-American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University, Callie House Research Center and George W. Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University

(Introduced by Brian Mendelsohn)

Materials/Suggested Reading:
Gilman Whiting, Gifted Black Males:  Understanding and Decreasing Barriers to Achievement and Identity (2008)
Phillip Atiba Goff ad Kimberly Barsamian, Racial Bias in Policing:  Why We Know Less Than We Should (2012)

  Jennifer Eberhardt, Phillip Atiba Goff, Valerie J. Purdie, and Paul G.  Davies, Seeing Black:  Race, Crime, and Visual Processing (2004)

Suggested Reading:  W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folks

2:30-2:45        
Coffee Break

2:45-4:00        

Storytelling Through Cross-Examination
Andre Vitale, Special Assistant Public Defender, Rochester, New York
(Introduced by Courtney O'Donnell)

Presentation Materials

4:00-5:00     

Spotlight on Prosecutor Ethics, 1.0 hour Ethics
Moderated by Allison Dawson
With Former Dark-Siders
Paul Cognac, Zahra Karinshak, BJ Pak, Bill Thomas

Materials/Bibliography and Suggested Reading:
Hypotheticals
Selected Ethical Provisions Bearing on Prosecutor Ethics:
American Bar Association Prosecution Function Standards
American Bar Association Standards on Prosecutorial Investigations
American Bar Association Formal Opinion (09-454) on Prosecutor's Duty to Disclose Evidence and Information Favorable to the Defense (2009)
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11
Georgia Rule of Professional Responsibility 1.1 Competence
Georgia Rule of Professional Responsibility 1.3 Diligence
Georgia Rule of Professional Responsibility 3.3 Candor
Georgia Rule of Professional Responsibility 3.4 Fairness
Georgia Rule of Professional Responsibility 3.8 Special Responsibilities of Prosecutor
United States Attorney Manual Section 9-11.233 re Presentation of Exculpatory Evidence to Grand Jury
United States Attorney Manual Section 9-22.00  Pretrial Diversion Eligibility Criteria
United States Attorney Manual Section 7.12 Pretrial Diversion Procedure
Federal Pretrial Diversion Manual
Jon Sands, Steven Kalar, Geoffrey Hansen, Chris Miles, Peter Davids, and Janathan Katchen, Prosecutorial Misconduct, published at FD.org
Barry Scheck and Nancy Gertner, Combatting Brady Violations with an Ethical Rule (2013)
Bill Thomas, Letter to Prosecutor re Grand Jury Issue 
Ellen Yaroshefsky, Ethics and Plea Bargaining:  What's Discovery Got to Do With It? (2008)

5:00-7:00       Beer & Wine Social