Sixth Amendment

Felony deenders have not had an opportunity to hone their core trial skills and due to ongoing closures of courts, more experienced attorneys need refreshers on critical trial skills. This training will focus on developing a theory of the case, how to impeach witnesses, opening and closing, and voir dire.

Felony deenders have not had an opportunity to hone their core trial skills and due to ongoing closures of courts, more experienced attorneys need refreshers on critical trial skills. This training will focus on developing a theory of the case, how to impeach witnesses, opening and closing, and voir dire.

Felony deenders have not had an opportunity to hone their core trial skills and due to ongoing closures of courts, more experienced attorneys need refreshers on critical trial skills. This training will focus on developing a theory of the case, how to impeach witnesses, opening and closing, and voir dire.

This is an research project that aims to determine to what extent race impacts indigent representation.
January-June 2022:
 Finalize Survey & Field Survey
 Finalize Interview Protocols & Conduct Interviews
 Clean Survey Data
 Clean Interview Data
 Draft Literature Review
 Plan for Review Process and Potential Dissemination Logistics
July-December 2022: Developed preliminary findings and presented at NAPD Racial Justice Conference on November 2, 2022.

Provide scholarship funding totaling $32, 000 to defense practitioners.
January-June 2022: Provided Scholarship funding for 15 attendees for the ABA-SCLAID virtual conference, April 21-22, 2022 that focused on managed assigned counsel programs. Total scholarship amount was $750.00.

Similar to the Minnesota statewide training we did, we will host a virtual Fair cross-section training in two parts. Specifically, the TTA will be aimed at educating and training criminal legal system stakeholders on how to deal with disparities in jury pools and to generally increase literacy around fair cross-section challenges. There will be one training for all stakeholders slated for August 19th and then another limited to defenders slated for August 26th.
January-June 2022: We have met with the TTA contact and developed both content and secured speakers for the programs.

This is a research project that aims to document the national trends related to juror compensation and selection.
January to June 2022: The data has been aggregated into a spreadsheet. We are currently working to put the data on a map that allows individuals to compare and contrast by state.
July-December 2022: Data has been migrated to an interactive map. Map development is ongoing.
January - June 2023: Data has been uploaded and interactive map is in the testing stage.

This virtual training was held on 6.24.22 and was aimed at defining Restorative Justice by describing what it is and what it is not. There were approximately 1070attendees and it lasted for 2 hours.

This virtual training was held on 6.3.22 and was aimed at defining Restorative Justice by describing what it is and what it is not. There were approximately 14 attendees and it lasted for one hour.

This virtual training was held on 5.12.22 and was aimed at defining Restorative Justice by describing what it is not. There were approximately 22 attendees and it lasted for 2 hours.