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Handling Capital Cases (NO CREDIT)

Price:	$99.00 (provides online access for 3 months after purchase).
Course №:	POD 936N
Course Level:	Intermediate
Duration:	6 Hours 6 Minutes
Original Program Date:	Wednesday, April 11, 2007

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Item Description

Those involved in handling capital cases must understand the unique aspects of these cases in order to properly represent their clients. Judge Renee Cardwell Hughes and Jules Epstein have brought together a faculty comprised of Judges, Public and Private Defenders and Prosecution to explain to you what you need to know about the handling of a capital case. Start with a soup to nuts exploration of capital cases. Evaluate the impact of aggravating factors and the importance of a mitigation investigation. Examine the hot topics in capital case law and ethical issues in capital cases.

Faculty

Hon. Renee Cardwell Hughes, Court of Common Pleas, First Judicial District Member, Pennsylvania Commission on Judicial Independence, Philadelphia

Jules B. Epstein, Esq., Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, DE

Paul G. Conway, Esq., Defender Association of Philadelphia, Philadelphia

John J. Doyle, III, Esq., Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, Philadelphia

Robert B. Dunham, Esq., Assistant Federal Defender, Middle District of Pennsylvania Habeas Corpus Unit, Harrisburg

Everett Gillison, Esq., Philadelphia County Public Defenders Office, Philadelphia

Robin Godfrey, Esq., Chief, PCRA Unit, Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, Philadelphia

Hon. Benjamin Lerner, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia

Carmen M. Lineberger, Esq., Philadelphia Office of the District Attorney, Philadelphia

Edward F. McCann, Jr., Esq., Deputy District Attorney, Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, Philadelphia

Bernard L. Siegel, Esq., Law Offices of Bernard L. Siegel, Philadelphia

Gina Maisto Smith, Esq., Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia

Daniel R. Stevenson, Esq., Defender Association of Philadelphia, Philadelphia

Course Materials

	This is a NON-credit course. (Read more) (1 Page, 36 KB)
	Program Schedule (1 Page, 46 KB)
	Course Outline (Slides in Note-Taking Format) (30 Pages, 193 KB)
	Written Materials (211 Pages, 1 MB)
	Major Ethics Rules Changes (Rev. August 2009) (ETHICS COURSES ONLY) (2 Pages, 26 KB)

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