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2023 Winter Session Materials
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SEMINAR DAY ONE - Thursday January 12, 2023 | ||
Time | Event Description | Presenter |
8:00AM-9:00AM | Registration, Breakfast, and Exhibits | |
9:00AM-9:30AM | Opening: Facing Death. Higher Stakes, Bereaved Families, and Sleepless Nights | NCDD Dean-Andrew Mishlove |
9:30AM-10:30AM | The State’s Investigation, and What you Need to Do Right Now | Hon. Catherine V. Evans |
10:30AM-10:45AM | Morning Break | |
10:45AM-12:15PM | Accident Reconstruction: Human Factors and Physics | Daniel R. Billington |
12:15PM-1:15PM | Lunch | |
1:15PM-2:15PM | Voir Dire in the Death or Serious Injury Case | Virginia L. Landry |
2:15PM-3:30PM | Case Study: A Trial Story: Winning the Vehicular Murder Charge by Mitigation | G. Cole Casey |
3:30PM-3:45PM | Afternoon Break | |
3:45PM-5:15PM | Case Study: A Trial Story: Winning the Vehicular Homicide Charge by Impeaching the State’s Reconstruction Engineer | Dennis Melowski |
SEMINAR DAY TWO - Friday January 13, 2023 | ||
Time | Event Description | Presenter |
8:00AM-8:45AM | Breakfast and Exhibits | |
8:45AM-9:00AM | Opening Remarks | Dean Andrew Mishlove |
9:00AM-9:20AM | Scorpion-NCDD’s Official Digital Marketing Services Partner | |
9:20AM-10:00AM | Sentencing: The Worst has Happened. The Scales Cannot be Balanced. We Need a Story of Context and Redemption | Dean Andrew Mishlove |
10:00AM-10:45AM | Issues in Forensic Pathology | John Hunsucker |
10:45AM-11:00AM | Morning Break | |
11:00AM-12:00PM | Case Study: A Case of Chirality: Chemistry Defense in a DUI Meth Homicide | Amanda K. Riek and David Bolles |
12:00PM-1:00PM | Lunch | |
1:00PM-2:00PM | Pretrial Litigation in the Serious Case: Motions in Limine, Daubert, Suppressions, etc. | Lara J. Gressley |
2:00PM-2:45PM | Restitution: How to Use Available Insurance and Avoid the Double Dip | Lynn Gorelick |
2:45PM-3:00PM | Afternoon Break | |
3:00PM-4:00PM | Case Study: A Trial Story: From the Lab to the Verdict. Winning by Impeaching the Chemist | Donald J. Ramsell |
4:00PM-5:30PM | The Kyle Rittenhouse Case. Winning the High-Profile Homicide: “I Don’t Represent Causes, I represent Clients!” | Mark Richards |
CLE Credit Hours:
60min States: 13 CLE hours
50min States: 16 CLE hours
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