This presentation will build on Captain Cody's webinar Representing Veterans in Criminal Cases: Obtaining and Understanding Military Records on from June 18, 2020, available here (password protected).

Military Veterans undergo an experience far removed from the vast majority of those who sit in judgment of them in the justice system. The military culture/experience, particularly if it involves combat, indelibly shapes the veteran and often has significant causal or mitigation implications relating to criminal offenses.  At core, as mandated by Porter v. McCollum, 558 US 30 (2009), the lawyer’s role and obligation in a veteran’s case is to the greatest degree possible understand military culture  and investigate and tell the vet’s story -- to translate this uncommon experience into a human narrative that engenders the comprehension of a prosecutor, judge, jury and evokes their compassion.  This practical instruction will assist lawyers in fulfilling their ethical obligation by exploring veteran culture, veteran client interaction, interpreting military records, interview techniques, and an archetypical veteran mitigation brief.

Presenter

Captain Art C. Cody is the director of criminal law at Veteran Advocacy Project, New York, NY.

Start time is 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.

This webinar may be eligible for CLE credit, where authorized. Applications are pending in all states that grant CLE for Training Division webinars.

Public defense work is incredibly stressful. The work impacts our lives personally and professionally. You deserve to take care of yourself, for the benefit of yourself, your family, and your clients. This webinar will offer concrete ways to do just that. Ron Tyler is a Professor of Law and Director of the Stanford Criminal Defense Clinic. One of his areas of focus is on self-care for lawyers and law students. He has written and presented nationwide on the topic. His 22 years of experience as an AFPD prior to coming to Stanford gives him true insight into the vicarious trauma we all experience.

Presenter

Ron Tyler is a Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic at Stanford Law School. The Clinic represents clients in the superior courts of California. Professor Tyler’s scholarly agenda focuses on self-care skills for lawyers and criminal practice and procedure. He is the author of The First Thing We Do, Let’s Heal All the Law Students: Incorporating Self-Care Into A Criminal Defense Clinic, 21 Berkeley J. Crim. L. 1 (2016).

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty, Professor Tyler was an Assistant Federal Public Defender for 22 years in the Northern District of California. A dedicated defense attorney and nationally recognized expert, he has litigated at trial and appellate courts covering the full gamut of federal criminal cases. He teaches regularly at seminars for criminal defense attorneys, investigators and paralegals. He is also active in several nonprofits, serving on the Executive Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Board of Regents of the National Criminal Defense College and the William A. Ingram Inn of the American Inns of Court.

Professor Tyler received his BS in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981 and had a brief career in high tech before changing his focus to public interest advocacy. He began law school as a Tony Patiño Fellow at Hastings College of the Law and earned his JD from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1989, where he served as notes and comments editor on the Ecology Law Quarterly. After law school, he clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel.

Start time is 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (10:00 AM PST).