Product Description

In your criminal law practice, the stakes are highest when homicide is the charge—a life has 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 determinative scientific and social factors in homicide trials. Our panel brings you current on what is happening in Massachusetts courts on both fronts. They present the latest on introducing certain pieces of evidence, discuss Mattis and emerging adults, and examine panel/attorney-conducted voir dire. You come away from this program savvier, more aware, and more knowledgeable.

Raise your homicide practice to a higher level. 

Agenda & Materials

• 9:30am - 9:35am

  Welcome and Introduction

  Debra DeWitt-Ahern, Esq., Ahern Law Offices , Lowell
  Suzanne Wiseman, Esq., Middlesex Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Woburn
  
• 9:35am - 11:00am

  Caselaw Update

  Ryan P. Sullivan, Esq., Erkan and Sullivan, PC , Andover
  Jamie Charles, Esq., Middlesex Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Woburn
  Hon. Frank M. Gaziano, Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  
• 11:00am - 11:15am

  Break
• 11:15am - 12:35pm

  Mattis and Emerging Adults

  Karen Logee Swenson, Esq., Committee for Public Counsel Services , Lowell
  Kate B. MacDougall, Esq., Essex District Attorney's Office, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Salem
  Hon. Jay D. Blitzman, , Watertown
  
• 12:35pm - 1:35pm

  Lunch (on your own)
• 1:35pm - 2:55pm

  Panel/Attorney-Conducted Voir Dire

  Austin C. Tzeng, Esq., Law Office of Austin C. Tzeng , Quincy
  Mark Tan Lee, Esq., Suffolk District Attorney's Office, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Hon. William M. White, Jr., Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  
• 2:55pm - 3:10pm

  Break
• 3:10pm - 4:30pm

  Introducing Certain Pieces of Evidence

  Mark W. Shea, Esq., Shea and LaRocque Law Offices , Boston
  Megan C. McGovern, Esq., Middlesex Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Woburn
  Hon. Patrick M. Haggan, Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  

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