2008 Annual Death Penalty Seminar

Sponsored by the DePaul University College of Law Center for Justice in Capital Cases, The Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Illinois Public Defender’s Association

October 10 and 11, 2008

DePaul Center Room 8005
1 E Jackson Blvd
Chicago, Illinois 60604

The annual death penalty seminar brings together experts in capital trial litigation, mitigation, jury selection and more to discuss new and continuing challenges facing the death penalty defense team. Materials for this seminar include the updated 2008 Illinois Capital Defense Motions Manual produced by the Center for Justice in Capital Cases. Capital Litigation Trial Bar approval is pending for this program. One hour of ethics will be provided.

REGISTRATION

IACDL Public Defender Members $215

IACDL Private Attorney Members $235

Public Defender Non-members $240

Private Attorney Non-members $260

All rates paid at the door are fixed at $300

Group discounts available for public defender’s offices by contacting Mary Bandstra at mbandstr@depaul.edu or 312-362-5837.

Schedule

Friday , October 10 , 2008
8:30 A.M. - 9:00 A.M.	Registration & Materials
9:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M.	Welcoming Remarks: Andrea Lyon, Steve Richards, Peter Wise
9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.	Overview of US and IL Supreme Courts' Recent Capital Decisions: Allen Andrews
10:00 A.M. - 10:45 A.M.	Death is Different: Developing an Overall Strategy and Theory of the Case: Craig Washington
10:45 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.	Break
11:00 A.M. - 11:45 A.M.	Challenges in Forensic Science, Fingerprints and More: Mark Acree
11:45 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.	Capital Case Negotiations: Chris Adams
12:30 P.M. - 1:15 P.M.	Lunch (provided)
1:15 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.	Overview of Mitigation: Jeanene Barrett
2:00 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.	Mapping Risk Factors : Jeff Eno and Richard Shaker
2:45 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.	Technology in the Courtroom: Laura Dominiak
3:30 P.M. - 3:45 P.M.	Break
3:45 P.M. - 4:15 P.M.	Investigation for Effective Motions Practice: Mort Smith
4:15 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.	Motions Practice in a Death Case: Andrea Lyon
Saturday, October 11, 2008
9:00 A.M. - 9:45 A.M.	Capital Depositions: Peter Wise
9:45 A.M. - 10:45 A.M.	How Capital Juries Hear Sentencing Evidence: Dr. Marla Sandys
10:45 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.	Break
11:00 A.M. - 11:45 A.M.	Trying Confession Cases: Deja Vishny
11:45 A.M. - 12:30 A.M.	Ethics as Sword and a Shield in Capital Cases: Cynthia Roseberry

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Speaker Bios:

Mark Acree is an independent forensic scientist from Virginia who has been in practice since 1998. He has served as a fingerprint expert in state and Federal criminal cases, and has authored and coauthored several journal articles about fingerprint identification and its use in courts.

Chris Adams serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and teaches at the National Criminal Defense College. Prior to becoming a full-time death penalty defender, Chris was a public defender in Charleston, South Carolina for more than seven years.

Allen Andrews is an assistant defender at the Office of the State Appellate Defender, where he is a member of the Supreme Court unit. He successfully argued the seminal case of Morgan v. Illinois in the United States Supreme Court in 1994.

Jeanene Barrett is the Mitigation Specialist for the CJCC. Jeanene joined the CJCC in March, 2008 after having worked within the child welfare field for over eleven years. She is also a Criminal Justice adjunct faculty member at Westwood College. Jeanene received her M.A. in Social Work from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, M.S. degree in Human Services Administration from Spertus College, and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Laura Dominiak is the vice president of litigation technologies at Legal Visual Services, Inc., a visual communication company that helps attorneys manage their case evidence and present at mediation, arbitration or trial. Laura consults with law firms to design visual communication strategies and implement effective courtroom presentation technologies.

Jeff Eno is a seasoned mitigation expert with 20 years of death penalty experience. His practice focuses exclusively on death penalty trial and post-conviction work in state and federal jurisdictions nationwide. He brings considerable clinical and forensic experience to his work. Recently, he assisted with the mitigation in the first death penalty case in Michigan in over 60 years, a case which resulted in a life sentence. He earned his MA in Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and his BA in Psychology and Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the founder and Senior Partner of Mapping Connections, LLC – an innovative mapping company that uses public data (census, crime, health, environmental, etc.) to create visual narratives of neighborhoods and communities.

Andrea Lyon is currently a clinical professor of law and the director of the DePaul University College of Law Center for Justice in Capital Cases. In 1976, she joined the Cook County Illinois Public Defender's Office. Her last position there was Chief of the Homicide Task Force, a 22-lawyer unit representing persons accused of homicides. She has tried over 130 homicide cases, while at the Public Defender's office, and since. She has defended over 30 potential capital cases at the trial level and has taken 19 through penalty phase; she has won all 19. In 1990, she founded the Illinois Capital Resource Center and served as its director until joining the University of Michigan Law School faculty as an assistant clinical professor in 1995. She is also the director of the Clarence Darrow Death Penalty Defense College at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago.

Stephen Richards, former Deputy Defender for the Office of the Illinois State Appellate Defender's Death Penalty Trial Assistance Division, was awarded NLADA's 2003 Kutak-Dodds Price for outstanding service in public defense work. Prior to becoming a deputy defender, Mr. Richards worked as an assistant public defender in Cook County, where he was instrumental in the establishment of First Defense Legal Aid, a nonprofit organization that sends pro bono attorneys to the aid of indigent suspects in police custody. Mr. Richards also chaired the Ad Hoc Committee for Mass Clemency and personally argued two of the clemency petitions before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. Mr. Richards then led a team that represented the accused in the first Illinois capital trial held after clemency, winning a finding of ineligibility and saving the client's life.

Cynthia Roseberry, an experienced litigator in federal criminal defense and state felony defense, joined the DePaul University College of Law in 2007 to teach the misdemeanor clinic. She is a member of the faculty of the Bill Daniel Trial Advocacy Program and the National Criminal Defense College. Roseberry also has taught for the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Indigent Defense Council, the Wisconsin Trial Skills Academy, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Georgia Public Defenders Standards Council, the District of Columbia Public Defenders and the Rainbow/Push Coalition. She has trained lawyers in trial preparation, cross examination and improvisation for trial. Roseberry is a former vice president and current board member of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a founding board member of the Georgia Innocence Project, the Georgia version of a program co-founded by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld at Cardozo School of Law to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. Roseberry also worked with inner city youth through her sponsorship of the Booker T. Washington High School mock trial team in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her law degree from Georgia State University.

Dr. Marla Sandys received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Kentucky. She is one of the original and continuing members of the consortium of researchers that comprise the Capital Jury Project (CJP), funded by The National Science Foundation. The primary focus of that work is to understand, from the jurors themselves, why they voted for life or death and whether those decisions are in keeping with the law designed to guide juror decision making in capital cases. The more recent focus of the CJP is the role of jurors' race in the dynamics of the jury's deliberation. Professor Sandys also works with colleagues at the Law School in Indianapolis on the Indiana Innocence Project that is designed to assist in the release from prison of persons wrongfully convicted. Professor Sandys teaches courses and seminars on such topics as research methods, capital punishment, juries, and innocence.

Richard Shaker is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has a M.S. in Geography from UW-Milwaukee and a B.A. in Geography from UW-La Crosse. His areas of interests include: Biogeography, Landscape Ecology, Ecosystems Dynamics, Urban Design, Geostatistics, GIS, Cartography, Spatial Analysis and Spatial Modeling. He has received numerous honors and awards for his innovative and pioneering work in the field of Geography. He is the founder of GeoEco Design, LLC and Senior Partner at Mapping Connections, LLC.

Mort Smith is the co-founder and Associate Director of the Criminal Defense Investigator Certification Program at DePaul University. Mr. Smith is a practicing Licensed Private Investigator who specializes in criminal defense and civil rights cases. He is a consultant to attorneys and criminal defense investigators on matters concerning criminal cases. He is the primary instructor for the Criminal Defense Investigator Certification Program at DePaul University. He has lectured to different audiences on various subjects on criminal defense investigations. Mr. Smith is the former Chief Investigator of the Cook County Public Defenders Murder Task Force and the Former Chief Investigator for the Illinois Capital Resource Center (now the Capital Litigation Division) of the Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender.

Deja Vishny is a lifelong public defender, having practiced with the Milwaukee trial office of the Wisconsin State Public Defender for almost 29 years. She is the head of that office's homicide unit and also one of a team responsible for statewide training of both staff and panel lawyers. She has been on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College for 10 years. She has both published an article in the Champion and spoken for NACDL and many other criminal defense associations and bar associations on how to defend false confession cases. She is an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School where she teaches trial advocacy.

Craig Washington earned his law degree from Texas Southern University Law School in 1969, graduating number one in his class, with honors. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Washington served Texas Southern University Law School as Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Law. In 1970, he left the university to enter private law practice. He was the founding partner of Washington & Randle (later Washington, Lampley, Evans & Braquet), in Houston. Mr. Washington is licensed to practice law before the Supreme Court of Texas, the United States District Courts of the Southern, Western, Eastern, and Northern Districts of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He has had eight cases before the Supreme Court. In 1985, the State Bar of Texas honored Mr. Washington as Outstanding Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year.

Peter Wise is a criminal defense attorney in Springfield, Illinois and is the president of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.