Sunny Climate 2021
November 11-15, 2021 • CLE 11/13
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa
CLE: Saturday, Nov. 13 – To purchase this program in the CLE Archive, click here. _____ Who may attend the Sunny Climate CLE? Defense lawyers, investigators, and those professionals and law students directly involved in the defense function. _____ Seminar registration includes:
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Seminar cancellation Seminar cancellations made by November 6 will receive a refund less a $50 cancellation fee. Cancellations made after Nov. 5 — after material download link has been emailed, will receive a refund less a $150 cancellation/written material fee. No-shows will be sent a link to the recordings upon request. |
Sunny Climate Seminar CLE Program Saturday, November 13, 2021 Grand Hyatt Kauaí, HI 8:45a Check-in/Registration/Coffee & Tea 9:15 Using More Than Words to Persuade: Mitigation & Sentencing Videos Callie Steele, Federal Public Defender of the Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA A picture is definitely worth a thousand words! As we represent our clients, we are better able to tell their stories by using photos, videos and other items to bring our arguments to life! Mitigation and sentencing videos can be extremely effective and this presentation will show you how you can knock years off of your clients’ sentences by creatively using much more than words to persuade. 10:15 Break 10:30 What's Interrogation Gotta Do With It: Defending Confession Cases Deja Vishny, Milwaukie WI Read More This presentation will help you overcome your feelings of dread as you prepare to defend a case where your client has confessed. After reviewing how police interrogate persons to get a confession, we'll discuss how to mount a defense, reframe the confession, work with expert witnesses, cutting edge motion practice and effectively cross examine police interrogators in order to win your case. 12:00p Lunch (included) 1:00 Leaving Snitches in Stitches: Advanced Techniques for Controlling Cooperators Jennifer Sellitti, Director of Training & Communications, New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, Trenton NJ There’s nothing worse than a snitch who gives up the goods to the detriment of your client. In this presentation, we will explore how to combat cooperating witness testimony before, during and after trial. The presentation covers pretrial motion practice, creating theories and themes to incorporate cooperators into your narrative, advanced cross exam techniques, visual aids, and jury instructions. Jail house informants, sentenced and unsentenced cooperators, and motivated witnesses are all discussed. We will also explore the science of snitching – meaning, how we can use research about human nature to improve our arguments at trial. 2:30 Break 2:45 De-Selecting Those Hall Monitors: How to Get an Empowered Jury of Understanding Humans and Avoid the Detention Hall for Your Clients Justin Rosas, Medford, OR Read More "How can this moron on my jury pool possibly think that?!?" "How can I ever win if these people don't know how wrong they are about their world views?!?" As defense champions, our inclination is to rail against the things we believe are unjust - and sometimes that can create unjust results for our clients. Jury deselection requires us to be non-judgmental and open to viewpoints that hurt our clients the most - so that those who hold them can earnestly and honestly tell us that they should not be on the jury. This is a deep dive into how we discuss hard topics that we may have firmly held beliefs about ourselves and get the jury that will acquit our client rather than the jury who has been served up some intellectual righteousness from defense counsel while our clients get sentenced. 4:15 Adjourn |
Travel & Lodging Package • starting at $1299 November 11–15, 2021 Grand Hyatt Kauaí, HI To inquire about availability, call Tom Cronkrite of TravelPro: 866-611-3785, email: tom@tomtravel.net. Package Includes:
The hotel & travel package is open to all family and friends of CLE attendees. Travel Cancellation/Fee The airline portion of the travel package is nonrefundable. Any cancellation after September 3, 2021, will be assessed a $250.00 cancellation fee in addition to nonrefundable airline costs. Airfare subject to change until travel paid in full. |
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