THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER
John J. Hardiman, Public Defender

&

THE RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS
Michael A. DiLauro, Assistant Public Defender //
Director of Training & Legislative Liaison, President

PROUDLY PRESENT
THE RICHARD M. CASPARIAN MEMORIAL CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION SERIES
Timely Topics of Interest for the Criminal Defense Practitioner!

Program 2 - Getting Realistic About Jury Selection!

PRESENTER: Ira Mickenberg,
Public Defender Trainer & Consultant (Saratoga Springs, NY)

DESCRIPTION: Jury selection and voir dire are two of the most critical, potentially fruitful, and yet neglected part of a criminal trial. During this interactive program attendees will learn to think about jury selection and voir dire in a novel ways while gaining new techniques, tools, and strategies for implementing them including:

• AN HONEST LOOK AT WHY WE GET CONVICTING JURIES
• A SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING JURORS AND DECIDING WHO TO CHALLENGE
• VOIR DIRE QUESTIONS THAT GET YOU THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO MAKE INTELLIGENT CHALLENGES
• LOCKING DOWN AND BULLET-PROOFING CHALLENGES FOR CAUSE...
• and much, much more!

All attendees will receive a comprehensive set of written materials and 6.0 hours of CLE credit!

OUR PRESENTER:
Ira Mickenberg is a criminal defense lawyer, defender trainer, and consultant from Saratoga Springs, NY. Ira has designed and taught hundreds of trial, appellate, post-conviction, and capital training programs for public defender organizations across the United States for more than three decades. He has also represented indigent defendants in the United States Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal as well as the highest appellate courts of several states. He has also done extensive felony work at the trial court level. From 1988-1994 Ira was founder and Attorney-In-Charge of the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York City. Ira has been certified as an expert witness in the federal courts on the subject of the effective assistance of counsel and has taught criminal law and procedure and appellate advocacy at American University School of Law, New York Law School, the University of Dayton School of Law, and Williams College.

Ira’s three previous presentations in Rhode Island Real Life Persuasive Brady Litigation (June, 2007); Telling the Client’s Story: Persuasive Sentencing Advocacy (May, 2008); and Telling the Mistaken Eyewitness Identification Story (May, 2009) were three of the most successful and well attended in the 20 + years of training collaboration between the Office of the Public Defender and RIACDL.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE!!

Subject to Supreme Court Rule IV.3, this program has been approved by the MCLE Commission for a maximum of 6.0 credits. This program has also been approved for credit towards re-certification of court appointed counsel. This program also satisfies 6.0 hours of the CLE requirement for criminal case panels in the District, Superior, and Supreme Courts.

SPACE IS LIMITED SO SIGNUP NOW TO ENSURE SEATING!

FEES

* Those attending for free still need to fill out and return the form.

Defense of Eyewitness Identification Cases:
PART V - Voir Dire

PART V of Defense of Eyewitness Identification Cases, Voir Dire, will conclude the two year cycle of training by the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) in the various aspects of defending these types of cases. Relying upon:

• Established Rhode Island law supporting liberal attorney conducted voir dire
• Practice Tips
• Principles of effective voir dire in Eyewitness Identification Cases

Attendees will learn to organize and implement an effective, liberal, and attorney conducted voir dire generally in an eyewitness identification case in particular. Although OPD attorneys are required to attend this training as part of its free in-house training program, RIACDL members and others are invited and welcome to attend at nominal cost. Those attending will receive 1.5 hours if in-house CLE credit and a comprehensive set of written materials.

FEES

No advance sign-ups required. Just show up!