Establishing Innocence or Guilt
Causes of and Solutions to Wrongful Convictions
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Plano, Texas, USA
The Center for American and International Law
5201 Democracy Drive
Plano, Texas 75024
Online registration is closed. Please bring your completed registration form to the door.
Registrar: +1.972.244.3404
Fax: +1.972.244.3401
E-Mail: cail@cailaw.org
Overview
This program permits us to highlight topical issues related to actual innocence, focusing on causes of and solutions to wrongful convictions. We will discuss such subjects as eye witness id, forensic evidence, tunnel vision, bias, Brady issues, and the competency of counsel. We will likely feature an exoneree, asking that person to tell his story as a way of personalizing the issue. Our intent is to be relevant to prosecutors, defense lawyers, law enforcement officers and judges.
This program is funded by a grant from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
Schedule and Faculty
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
8:00 am
Registration
9:00 am
McCollum & Brown – A Case Study - From Crime Through Conviction
- Christine Mumma, Executive Director, North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, Durham, North Carolina
10:15 am
Breakout Groups (Time includes a 15 minute break)
11:15 am
Reports from the Breakout Groups
11:30 am
McCollum & Brown – What Happened Post-Conviction
- Christine Mumma, Executive Director, North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, Durham, North Carolina
12:15 pm
Lunch (provided)
12:30 pm
Lunch Speaker
- Exoneree – Johnny Pinchback, Dallas, Texas
1:15 pm
Break
1:30 pm
Breakout Groups
2:15 pm
Reports from the Breakout Groups
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Eyewitness Experience
- Mike Corley, Chief of Police, Brownwood, Texas
3:30 pm
Ethics
- Jonathan Smaby, Executive Director, Texas Center for Legal Ethics, Austin, Texas
4:30 pm
What Lawyers Would Like to Get From Scientists
- Patricia Cummings, Law Office of Patricia J. Cummings, Round Rock, Texas
- Dan Garner, Chief Executive Officer/President, Houston Forensic Science Center, Houston, Texas
5:00 pm
Recess
Thursday, February 19, 2015
9:00 am
Scientific Evidence
- Jules Epstein, Professor, Widener University Law School
10:00 am
Interrogations & False Confessions with a focus on the Reid Technique (includes a 15 minute break)
- Moderated by Jules Epstein, Professor, Widener University Law School
- Joseph Buckley, President, John E. Reid & Associates, Chicago, Illinois
- Deborah Davis, Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
12:00 pm
Lunch (provided)
12:15 pm
Lunch Presentation: Structuring the Innocence Process – Conviction Integrity Units, Innocence Projects, etc.
- The Honorable Barbara Hervey, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Austin, Texas
- Inger Chandler, Assistant District Attorney, Harris County District Attorney’s Office, Houston, Texas
1:00 pm
Break
1:15 pm
Cognitive Bias and Criminal Law
- Craig Stark, Professor, University of California, Irvine, California
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Tunnel Vision
- Keith Findley, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin
- Inger Chandler, Assistant District Attorney, Harris County District Attorney’s Office, Houston, Texas
- Stephen Morrison, Sergeant, Houston Police Department, Houston, Texas
5:00 pm
Recess
Friday, February 20, 2015
9:00 am
Post-Conviction Issues and Legislative Developments
- Gary Udashen, Sorrels, Udashen & Anton, Dallas, Texas
- Christine Womble, Assistant District Attorney, Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, Dallas, Texas
10:30 am
The New Crime Lab Model
- Dan Garner, Chief Executive Officer/President, Houston Forensic Science Center, Houston, Texas
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Forensic Science Commission
- The Honorable Barbara Hervey, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
11:45 am
National Institute for Standards & Technology; Organization of Scientific Area Committees
- The Honorable Ron Reinstein, Superior Court of Arizona (Retired), Arizona Supreme Court Judicial Consultant
12:00 pm
Brady Issues and the Crime Lab Expert
- Tom Allen, General Counsel, Houston Forensic Science Center, Houston, Texas
- Scott Durfee, Assistant General Counsel, Harris County District Attorney’s Office, Houston, Texas
- Dan Garner, Chief Executive Officer/President, Houston Forensic Science Center, Houston, Texas
12:30 pm
Lunch (provided)
12:45 pm
Lunch Breakout Group Discussions – What lessons have we learned and what can we do better in Texas
1:45 pm
Break
2:00 pm
Report back from the Breakout Groups
2:15 pm
Preventing Wrongful Convictions
- Moderated by Gary Udashen, Sorrels, Udashen & Anton, Dallas, Texas
- The Honorable John Creuzot, Dallas, Texas
- The Honorable Gracie Lewis, Criminal District Court No. 3, Dallas, Texas
- Bill Wirskye, Assistant District Attorney, Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, Dallas, Texas
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
The Importance of Experts and How to Use Them to Understand Scientific Evidence
- Jack Stoffregen, Chief Public Defender, Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases, Lubbock, Texas
4:15 pm
Adjourn
CLE Credit
MCLE Credit
The State Bar of Texas has approved this program for a total of 20.25 hours, including 1 hour of ethics. Course ID Number: 901310541.
In addition to Texas, after the program (if requested) CAIL will directly apply for course accreditation in the following states, as long as course materials and evaluations are not required: California, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Attorneys may be eligible to receive CLE credit through attorney self-submission in other states, as long as course materials and evaluations are not required to be submitted.
Overnight Accommodations
Hyatt Place Plano welcomes our guests attending Establishing Innocence or Guilt at The Center for American and International Law. We have set aside a block of rooms with a group rate of $92 plus applicable fees/taxes for 2/16/2015-2/21/2015.
Please make your reservations by 2/3/2015. As long as the reservation is made by this date, and the group block has availability, you will receive the group rate. Any reservations not received on or before this cut-off date are subject to hotel availability at the best available prevailing rate.
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