Calculating Your Client’s Pretrial Risk Assessment Score (PTRA)

In this presentation, you will learn how to calculate your client’s PTRA score and to use it to advocate for your client’s release, demonstrating that your client poses a very low risk of failing to appear or re-offending.

This presentation complements the October 16, 2024, webinar Championing Pretrial Release With the PTRA. A recorded version of this previous webinar is available on the password-protected area of fd.org: here.

Presenter:

Andrew Grindrod is an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Eastern District of Virginia where he represents people charged with federal crimes, from misdemeanors to capital offenses. Most of his work is in the trial court, but he also handles appeals in the Fourth Circuit. Before joining the FPD, he worked as a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP in Washington, DC; he also clerked for the Honorable Paul S. Diamond on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He earned a J.D. with high honors from The University of Chicago Law School and a B.A. in history from Wake Forest University.

CLE:

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