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. 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, 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.

Agenda & Materials

• 9:30 am – 9:32 am

  Welcome and Introduction

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  Suzanne Wiseman, Esq., Middlesex Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Woburn
  
• 9:32 am - 10:25 am

  Prosecuting & Defending Homicide Cases: Cyber and Digital Evidence

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  Christopher W. Kelly, Esq., Office of the Attorney General, Digital Evidence Laboratory, Commonwealth of MA , Boston
  
• 10:25 am - 11:10 am

  Prosecuting & Defending Homicide Cases: Search Warrants

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  Casey E. Silvia, Esq., Appeals and Training Bureau, Middlesex District Attorney's Office
  
• 11:10 am – 11:20 am

  Break
• 11:20 am – 11:40 am

  Prosecuting & Defending Homicide Cases: Reducing Verdicts

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  Tara B. Burdman, Esq., Bristol District Attorney's Office , Fall River
  
• 11:40 am – 12:35 pm

  Prosecuting & Defending Homicide Cases: DNA Decision Making

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  Sara Concannon DeSimone, Esq., Middlesex District Attorney's Office, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Woburn
  Lisa M. Kavanaugh, Esq., CPCS Innocence Program , Boston
  
• 12:35 pm – 1:30 pm

  Lunch
• 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

  Prosecuting & Defending Homicide Cases: Advanced DNA Issues

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  Sharon M. Convery Walsh, Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory , Maynard
  Hon. Ira L. Gant, Plymouth Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Brockton
  Adrienne C. Lynch, Esq., Middlesex Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Woburn
  
• 2:45 pm – 2:55 pm

  Break
• 2:55 pm – 4:15 pm

  Racial Bias in Litigation of Murder cases

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  Masai-Maliek King, Esq., State Street , Boston
  Nanzella Whitfield, Esq., Committee for Public Counsel Services , Boston
  

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