Justice Through Science - Agenda

Course Schedule

8:15am	Registration & Continental Breakfast	none
8:50	Welcome	Moderator

Morning (3 CLE/CJE hours)

9:00	Prosecution The Prosecutor’s New Silent Witness	Cynthia Zimmer, Esq.
10:00	Defense* The Fickle Defender: Embracing Your Old Forensic Enemy to Defend Your New Client	Clinton Hughes, Esq.
11:00	Innocence* The Legal Ethics of Wrongful Conviction	Frances Watson, Esq.
12:00pm	Lunch	none
12:15	Keynote Address, Q&A (not for CLE/CJE) Innocent Nightmare – 17 Years in Prison, Exonerated by Modern DNA	Roosevelt Glenn, exoneree

Early Afternoon (1.5 CLE/CJE hours)

1:15	Forensic Scientist DNA in Justice (and Injustice)	Dr. Greg Hampikian
1:45	Crime Laboratory Using Computer Technology to Overcome Bottlenecks in the Forensic DNA Testing Process and Improve Data Recovery from Complex Samples	John Donahue, MA
2:15	Judicial Perspective Failures in Forensic Science and DNA Evidence: What Every Lawyer Should Know About Science and the Law – A View from the Bench	Hon. James Ross
2:45	Break	none

Late Afternoon (1.5 CLE/CJE hours)

3:00	DNA Mock Trial From DNA Report to Closing Argument	Ferrara, Kohlhepp, Machen, Perlin, Sasinoski, Schupansky
4:30	Adjourn	none

* Ethics Credit