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November 17 - 18, 2022

Death Penalty Seminar

Nationwide Conference Center

The death penalty committee has put together a fantastic agenda again this year!  We will be at Nationwide Conference Center, 100 Green Meadows Drive South, Lewis Center, OH  43035.  We have reserved a block of rooms at the rate of $137.00/night (not including tax).  The link to reserve a room: Click Here to Book Rooms for the 2022 OACDL Death Penalty Conference

OACDL will be applying for scholarships made available through the Office of the Ohio Public Defender for attorneys who have represented a criminal case in Ohio on a pro bono basis, or for full-time staff employees of a public defender agency.  Scholarships must be applied for using the scholarship registration form.  Once we know the status of the scholarships, we will post the form.  Please do not register online for a scholarship.  Scholarship applications MUST be on approved registration form.

Online registration for the seminar is now open!  Register Now

To download the brochure: 2022 DP Brochure

To print out and mail/fax registration form with payment, click here: DP 2022 Registration Form

To download the agenda, click here: 2022 DP Agenda

AGENDA

Thursday, November 17th  
8:00 - 8:30a Registration 
8:30 - 9:00a

Introduction - Recent Death Penalty and Method of Execution Litigation Developments

Speaker: David Stebbins
9:00 - 10:15a

Caselaw Update - Ohio and US Supreme Courts

Speaker: Russ Bensing, Cleveland
10:15 -10:15a Break
10:30a - 12:00p

Uncovering & Explaining Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Trauma

Speakers:

  • Bob Stinson, Psy.D, Columbus
  • Howard Fradkin, Ph.D., Columbus 
12 - 1p Lunch 
1:00 - 2:30p

Using Social Media for Mitigation Investigation & Presentation 

Speakers: Mitigation Specialists

  • Dorian Hall, OPD, Columbus
  • Lea Pagels, OPD, Columbus
  • Jim Crates, Columbus
2:30 - 2:454p Break
APPELLATE BREAKOUT  
2:45 - 3:45p

Effective Brief Writing & Oral Argument in the Supreme Court of Ohio in Capital Cases

Speakers: 

  • Jeff Gamso, Cleveland
  • Kim Rigby, OPD, Columbus 
3:45 - 4:45p

State v Bethel and other Developments in Litigating Post-Conviction Claims in State Court

Speakers:

  • Rachel Troutman, OPD, Columbus
  • Justin Thompson, Capital Habeas Unit, Columbus
TRIAL BREAKOUT  
2:45p - 3:45p

Aggressive and Meaningful Motion Practice at Trial

Speakers:

  • Richard Cline, OPD, Columbus
  • Don Malarcik, Akron
  • Noah Munyer, Akron

 
3:45 - 4:45p

What's Race Got to do With Capital Trials?

Speakers:

  • Fred Benton, Columbus
  • George Chaney, Federal Public Defender Office, Columbus

 

Friday, November 19th 

 
8:30 - 10:00a

Ohio’s Serious Mental Illness Exemption: Overview; Litigation Strategies after the Petition is Filed; Additional Evaluations, Discovery, Preparing for and Conducting an Evidentiary Hearing  

Speakers: 

  • Lisa Lagos, CHU, Columbus
  • Elise Grifka Wander, OPD Columbus
  • Tim Sweeney, Cleveland
  • Randall Porter, OPD, Columbus 
10:00 - 10:15a Break
10:15 - 11:15a

What Influences Death Penalty Jurors’ Moral Decision-Making?

Speaker:    

  • Professor Meredith Rountree, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
11:15 - 12:15p

A View from the Trial Bench

Speaker:    

  • Judge Amy Corrigall-Jones, Retired, Summit County Court of Common Pleas
12:15 - 1:15p Lunch 
1:15- 2:30p

Ethics and Best Practices for Capital Litigators: the ABA Guidelines and Supplemental Guidelines

Speakers:   

  • Natalie Olmstead, CHU, Columbus
  • Adam Rusnak, CHU, Columbus
2:30 - 2:45p Break
2:45-4:00p

Media Relations in Capital Cases: Early Decisions in Storytelling and Narrative Development.

Moderator:           David Stebbins, Columbus

Speakers:         

  • Dale Baich – Phoenix, Arizona
  • Marty Schladen – Ohio Capital Journal – Columbus
  • Ngozi Ndulue – Deputy Director -Death Penalty Information Center – Washington, D.C.

 

  

 

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