Prosecuting & Defending Homicide Cases
Understanding DNA, record impoundment, and racial bias
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Product Description
Product Description
In your criminal law practice, the stakes are highest when homicide is the charge: one life’s been lost. Another may face the strictest sentencing our legal system can impose. Those stakes are even higher when key evidence hangs in twisted strands that need processing at a complex molecular level. And the complexity doesn’t stop there— you also have to contend with the implicit biases of witnesses and members of the jury who may be viewing the evidence through the lens of race.
No matter which side of the counsel table you hail from—prosecution or defense—this program amps up your awareness of the most determining scientific and social factors in homicide trial. Our panel gets you current on what’s happening in Massachusetts’ courts on both fronts. They present cresting case law, developments in post-conviction motions for access to forensic and scientific analysis, latest lessons from the Innocence Program, and news you can use from the DNA analysis frontier. You come away from this course savvier, more aware, and more knowledgeable.
Raise your homicide practice to a higher level.
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Agenda
Agenda & Materials
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9:30 am - 9:40 am
Welcome and Introduction
on demand video Add to CartNicole L. Allain, Esq., Middlesex Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Woburn
Denise M. Regan, Esq., Law Office of Christopher Burke , Lynn
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9:40 am - 10:45 am
Caselaw Update
on demand video Add to CartHon. Marguerite T. Grant, Appeals Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
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10:45 am - 11:00 am
Break
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm
DNA Decision Making in Murder Cases: Pretrial, Post-Trial and 278A Considerations
on demand video Add to CartSara Concannon DeSimone, Esq., Middlesex District Attorney's Office, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Woburn
Lisa M. Kavanaugh, Esq., Committee for Public Counsel Services , Somerville
Jessica Langsam, Esq., Middlesex District Attorney's Office, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Woburn
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12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Lunch
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1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Advanced Issues in DNA Analysis
on demand video Add to CartIra L. Gant, Esq., Committee for Public Counsel Services , Brockton
Adrienne C. Lynch, Esq., Middlesex Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Woburn
Sharon M. Convery Walsh, Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory , Maynard
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Break
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3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Public Records/ Impoundment
on demand video Add to CartPatrick Levin, Esq., Committee for Public Counsel Services , Boston
Denise M. Regan, Esq., Law Office of Christopher Burke , Lynn
Casey E. Silvia, Esq., Appeals Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
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Bonus Panel
Racial Bias in Litigation of Murder Cases
on demand video Add to CartVictoria Kelleher, Esq., Law Office of Victoria Kelleher , Boston
Masai-Maliek King, Esq., State Street , Boston
Nanzella Whitfield, Esq., Committee for Public Counsel Services , Boston
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