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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
March 31 - April 2, 2005

• The Bail Reform Act
  Francisco Morales, AFPD, Western District of Texas
  
  
• A Multitude of Errors - The Brian Mayfield Case
  Steven T. Wax, FPD, District of Oregon
  
  
• Coerced False Confessions
  Robert Owens, Esq., Olive, Taber & Owens, P.A., Bloomington, Minnesota
  
  
• Due Process Under the Fifth Amendment: Challenging Identifications and Getting Access to Witnesses and Discovery
  Andrea George, AFPD, District of Minnesota
  
  
• How To Get a Franks v. Delaware Hearing
  David Stickman, FPD, District of Nebraska
  
  
• Using the Reasonableness Clause to Revitalize the Fourth Amendment
  Robert McWhirter, AFPD, District of Arizona
  
  
• A Booker Advisory: Into the Breyer Patch
  Steve Kalar, AFPD, Northern District of California
  Jon Sands, FPD, District of Arizona
  
  
• Dealing With Probation: Beware the Probation Officer as Prosecutor
  Geoffrey Hansen, Chief AFPD, Northern District of California
  Adjunct Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
  Steven Kalar, AFPD, Northern District of California
  
  
• How the Fourth Amendment Applies (And Does Not Apply) to Automobiles
  Brent Newton, AFPD, Southern District of Texas
  
  
• Defining and Accommodating Cognitive Disabilities in Criminal Justice Clients: Prevalence of Disabilities in Offender Populations;
  Disorganized Crime: Learning Disability and the Criminal Justice System;
  ADD on Trial: "Winning" is Still Losing
  Nancy Cowardin, PhD., Educational Diagnostics, Whittier, California
  
  
• Obtaining an Expert
  Robert Epstein, AFD, Defender Association of Philadelphia
  Steven Kalar, AFPD, Northern District of California
  
  
• Recent Supreme Court Cases on Criminal Law
  Paul Rashkind, AFPD, Southern District of Florida
  
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
July 21-23, 2005

Materials for the Minneapolis Winning Strategies Seminar are substantially similar to those distributed at the Philadelphia Seminar.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
September 15-17, 2005

• Crawford: A Sixth Amendment Revolution in the Use of Hearsay at Trial
  Robert P. Mosteller's law review article, Crawford v Washington: Encouraging and Ensuring the Confrontation of Witnesses, 39 U. Rich. L. Rev. 511 (2005), is not available on fd.org. It is accessible on Westlaw and Lexis
  Shereen Charlick, AFPD, Southern District of Florida
  Steve Hubachek, AFPD, Southern District of California
  
  
• The Revenge of the Law Reviews: Challenging the Reasonability of the Guidelines Post-Booker
  Tim Cone, AFPD, Southern District of Florida
  
  
• Beating the Rap (Sheet): Fighting Sentencing Enhancements Based on Prior Convictions
  Marjorie Meyers, FPD, Western District of Texas
  
  
• Coerced and "Kind Of" Coerced Confessions
  Robert Owens, Esq., Olive, Taber & Owens, P.A., Bloomington, Minnesota
  
  
• Writing Effective and Persuasive Motions and Briefs
  David McColgin, AFD, Defender Association of Philadelphia
  Brett Sweitzer, Research and Writing Attorney, Defender Association of Philadelphia
  
  
• Prosecutors and Exculpatory Information: Ethical and Constitutional Standards
  Kathleen Clark, Professor, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri
  
  
• The Bail Reform Act
  Francisco Morales, AFPD, Western District of Texas
  
  
• Articles on Sentencing Advocacy
  Various Authors
  
  
• Representation in Multi-Defendant Cases
  Jon M. Sands, AFPD, District of Arizona
  
  
• They’ve Got a Warrant? File A Suppression Motion Anyway
  Davina Chen, AFPD, Central District of California
  
  
• Fifth Amendment Rights During a Federal Prosecution and Thereafter
  Anthony Gallagher, FD, Federal Defenders of Montana
  
  
• Retreading Daubert: Kumho Tire, Criminal Defense & Experts
  Robert Epstein, AFD, Defender Association of Philadelphia
  Jeff Lindy, Esq., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Steven Kalar, AFPD, Northern District of California
  
  
• CJA Administration and Procedures: What's New?
  Donna Shearer, CJA Supervising Attorney, District of Maryland
  
  
• Noncompensable Billing Practices
  Randall Schnack, CJA Supervising Attorney, Los Angeles, California
  
  
• Disorganized Crime: Learning Disability and the Criminal Justice System;
  Crimes of Innocence: Examining Transgressions of the Mentally Young Offender
  Nancy Cowardin, PhD., Educational Diagnostics, Whittier, California
  
  
• New Amendments to the Sentencing Guidelines
  Alan DuBois, AFPD, Eastern District of North Carolina
  
  
• How the Fourth Amendment Applies (and Does Not Apply) to Automobiles
  Brent Newton, AFPD, Southern District of Texas
  
  
• Recent Supreme Court Cases
  Paul Rashkind, AFPD, Southern District of Florida
  
  
• A Booker Advisory: Into the Breyer Patch
  Steve Kalar, AFPD, Northern District of California
  Jon Sands, FPD, District of Arizona
  
  
• "That's the Man Who Did It!" - Identification Evidence Under the 5th and 6th Amendments
  Andrea George, AFPD, District of Minnesota
  
  
• The Importance of Mitigation
  Russell Stetler, Director of Investigation and Mitigation, Capital Defender Office, NewYork, New York
  

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