Criminal Masters in Advocacy 2022

The Rule-Out Method: Forcing the State to Eliminate All Possible Reasonable Doubts - In- PERSON

The Rule-Out method is an easily mastered, thoroughly tested, innovative trial strategy criminal defense approach that blocks the large majority of trial convictions. It works in part by the way it gets jurors to personally want to decide based only on reasonable doubts, partly by preventing the major defense error that alone accounts for over 80% of all convictions. Rule-Out is based on more than 20 years of face-to-face post-trial juror interviews, interviews with jury-eligible citizens, focus -groups and real trial testing and substantial 21st century neuroscience research including Nation Foundation-funded research at Duke's Institute for Brain Sciences with David Ball and partner Artemis Malekpour among its researchers. 

This program is part lecture and part demonstration, and features David Ball (presenting virtually), Roger Dodd (presenting virtually), Artemis Malekpour, Emilia Beskind and N.C. Superior Court Judges, Josephine Kerr Davis, Alyson Grine, Shannon Tucker and Gregory A. Weeks.  Register Today!

Registration includes seminar materials (in electronic format) and 6.25 CLE hours.

Please note you are registering to attend in person at NCAJ Headquarters located at 701 Corporate Center Dr, Ste 450 Raleigh.

TOPICS & SPEAKERS

8:00 a.m. | Registration 

8:55 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks by Program Chairs

• Anthony Monaghan, Assistant Public Defender, Charlotte
• Sarah Olson, IDS Forensic Resource Attorney, Durham 

9:00 a.m. | Intro to Rule Out Method

• David Ball, Malekpour & Ball, Durham (presenting virtually)
  • State's Forensics: A Garden of Reasonable Doubts
  • Witness Memory: Another Garden of Reasonable Doubts

10:30 a.m. | Jury Voir Dire for Rule-Out Method

• David Ball 
• Artemis Malekpour, Malekpour & Ball, Durham

11:00 a.m. | Jury Voir Dire for Rule-Out Method (continued)

11:45 p.m. | Rule-Out Method Affordable/Easy Focus Groups

• Artemis Malekpour 

12:15 p.m. | Lunch 

1:00 p.m. | Demos: Voir Dire, Openings, Direct & Cross, Closing & Critiques

• David Ball {Closing}
• Emilia Beskind, {Voir Dire} Thomas, Ferguson & Beskind, LLP, Durham 
• Roger Dodd, {Direct/Cross} Dodd & Burnham, Trial Lawyers, Valdosta (presenting virtually)
• Patricia Kuendig, Dodd & Kuendig, Park City, Utah
• Shannon Tucker, {Opening} Assistant Public Defender, Durham

2:00 p.m. | Break 

2:15 p.m. | Session continued 

3:15 p.m. | View from the Bench: Overcoming Objections to Rule-Out Method

• Honorable Josephine Davis Kerr, Superior Court Judge, Durham 
• Honorable Alyson Grine, Superior Court Judges, Pittsboro
• Honorable Gregory Weeks (Ret), Superior Court Judge, Fayetteville

4:30 p.m. | Adjourn 

SEMINAR MATERIALS

All of our seminar materials are PAPERLESS! Please be on the lookout for an email 72 hours prior to the seminar that includes  the seminar materials to download and print.

NCAJ Headquarters

701 Corporate Center Dr, Ste 450

Raleigh, NC 27607

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Cancellations received one week prior to the seminar date are refunded less a $35 service charge. Refunds cannot be given after this date. Substitutions are welcomed and may be made until the date of the seminar. For registrants who wish to transfer their registration to another NCAJ seminar, transfer requests received by 12:00 noon the third working day prior to the seminar are subject to a $50 transfer fee. Transfer requests received after this time are subject to a $110 transfer fee. Registrations may be transferred once and only to (one day) seminars scheduled through June 30, 2023.