Third Annual Conference on Public Defense
Friday, March 8, 2013 at Seattle University School of Law
Program: Sullivan Hall Room C5
Lunch: 2nd Floor Gallery
7.25 CLE Credits
Conference Video: Part I and Part II
Agenda
CLE course materials. (On the site, under CLE Materials, click on the document title to gain access to specific material.)
| 8:00 a.m. |
Registration |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome Remarks by Mark Niles, Dean of Seattle University School of Law |
| Introduction Bob Boruchowitz, Director, Defender Initiative, Seattle University School of Law |
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| 8:45 a.m. | Reflections on Gideon 50 Years Later Bob Ferguson, Attorney General, State of Washington |
| 9:00 a.m. | Pleading the Sixth: Why Prosecutors Need Public Defenders Dan Satterberg, King County Prosecuting Attorney, Seattle, Washington |
| 9:15 a.m. | Misdemeanors 41 Years after Argersinger - Guiding Hand of Counsel in the Gateway to Justice Bob Boruchowitz, Director, Defender Initiative, Seattle University School of Law |
| 9:45 a.m. | Break |
| 10:00 a.m. | What State Defenders Can Learn from the Federal Defender Practice Tom Hillier, Federal Public Defender, Seattle, Washington Anita Khandelwal, Staff Attorney, Federal Public Defender Nancy Tenney, Staff Attorney, Federal Public Defender |
| 11:00 a.m. | Gideon at Fifty Years: Do We Dare Celebrate? Norm Lefstein, Professor of Law, and Dean Emeritus Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch at the Second Floor Gallery |
| 12:30 p.m. | Gideon at 50 - Golden Anniversary or Mid-Life Crisis? Kim Taylor-Thompson, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law |
| 1:45 p.m. | Break |
| 2:00 p.m. | The Undersigned Attorney Hereby Certifies - The Washington Supreme Court Rule on Standards and its Implications Marc Boman, Moderator; Partner, Perkins Coie LLP Honorable Susan Owens, Justice for the Washington State Supreme Court Honorable Sheryl Gordon McCloud, Justice for the Washington State Supreme Court Joanne Moore, Director, Washington Office of Public Defense |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:10 p.m. | Where We Are on Racial Disparity and Race Bias in 2013 John Diaz, Seattle Police Chief Lisa Daugaard, Deputy Director, Defender Association Connie Rice, Co-directorof teh Advancement Project |
| 4:15 p.m. | Challenges to Public Defender Structure and Historical Perspectives Anne Daly, Director, Society of Counsel Eileen Farley, Director, Northwest Defender Association Dan Fessler, Director of the Yakima County Department of Assigned Counsel Don Madsen, Director, Associated Counsel for the Accused Floris Mikkelsen, Director of The Defender Association John Rodgers, Spokane County Public Defender |
| 5:15 p.m. | End of the Conference |
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In conjunction with this conference, the Seattle Journal for Social Justice will highlight issues relating to Gideon and public defense in its upcoming Spring 2013 publication. Materials from the conference as well as supplementary notes from prominent community members will be included in this edition. For information about the Seattle Journal for Social Justice, including how to order issues, please visit http://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sjsj. |
Registration fees
| $150 | General Admission |
| $100 | Employed by Non-Profit or Gov't Entity |
| $95 | Seattle University Alumni |
| $65 | Webinar participant, please note the times are in the Pacific time zone. Instructions and link will be provided on the registration form. |
| $65 | UW and Gonzaga student |
| $0 | Faculty and students |
