Death Penalty 2023

Plus OPTIONAL CLE on Thursday Evening (see below for details)

Thursday, April 27 - (OPTIONAL EVENT - 1.5 ethics hour for attendance at this presentation; there is an additional fee to attend).

7:00 pm–9:00 pm    Dinner & Presentation - "The Ethical Responsibility to Understand Racial Inequity (showing of film Racist Roots)  – Gretchen Engel, Executive Director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation,  Henderson Hill, Senior Council of the American Civil Liberties Union and Noel Nickle, Executive Director of the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.

 

Open Bar Sponsored by Farris & Thomas 5:00 pm; Dinner 6:00 pm; Presentation 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

 

Friday, April 28

Registration for Death Penalty 2023 includes seminar materials (via electronic link) and 6.0 CLE hours.

 

TOPICS & SPEAKERS

7:45 a.m. | Registration 

8:15 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks - Program Chair

• Terry Alford, Trial Resource Counsel, Office of the Capital Defender,  Durham

8:30 a.m. | Capital Cases: Lessons Learned

• Rob Sharpe, Capital Defender, Durham  

9:00 a.m. | Forensic Update - New Additional Experts

• Sarah Olson, Forensic Resource Counsel, Durham 

9:30 a.m. | Preserving the Record

• Glenn Gerding, Appellate Defender, Durham

10:00 a.m. | Break 

10:15 a.m. | Avoiding the Death Penalty- General Plan for a Death Penalty Case

• Vicki Jayne, Assistant Capital Defender, Durham 

11:00 a.m. | Diminished Capacity 

• Vince Rabil, Assistant Capital Defender (Retired)

11:45 a.m. | Litigating Clients Under 25

• David Andrews, Assistant Appellate Defender, Durham 

12:15 p.m. | Lunch (included in registration)

1:45 p.m. | Education, Mitigations, and Inequities

• Dr. Ann Turnbull, Ed.D, Pittsboro
• Elizabeth Hambourger, Senior Attorney, Center for Death Penalty Litigation, Durham

2:45 p.m. Break 

3:00 p.m. | When They Shut Down Wymore Jury Selection

• Kim Stevens, Federal Capital Resource Counsel, Asheville

3:45 p.m. | Telling the Story

• Tonya Maxwell. Mitigation Specialist, Asheville

 

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.

This program has been approved for credit in the following jurisdiction(s):

North Carolina State Bar, Board of Continuing Legal Education

Credit has been approved with the North Carolina State Bar, Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.50 Ethics credits and 6.00 General credits.

Doubletree Raleigh Durham Airport at Research Triangle Park 

4810 Page Creek Lane

Durham, NC

Map

Materials available with registration:

Please request the Death Penalty 2023 group room rate of $115 when booking your reservation at the hotel by calling 800.445.8667 or clicking the link to book online. 

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.