WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2012
● 11:00 - 2:00 REGISTRATION
● 2:00
- 2:15 WELCOME
Angela
Backers, President, AGACL
● Opening
Remarks
● 2:15
- 3:15 THE BEST OF THE BEST
Ward A.
Campbell, Supervising Deputy
Attorney General, California
Department
of Justice, Sacramento, California
● 3:15 - 3:30 BREAK
● 3:30 - 5:15 SUPREME COURT UPDATE
Dane R.
Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, California
Attorney
General's Office, San Francisco,
California
● 6:00 - 8:00 Cocktail Party - Top of the Mark
THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012
● 8:00
- 8:30 REGISTRATION
● 8:30 - 10:30 USING MENTAL HEALTH
EXPERTS TO REBUT MITIGATION
Steven
E. Pitt, DO, PC, Forensic & General Psychiatry, Scottsdale, Arizona
Jeffrey
Zick, Assistant Attorney General, Arizona Attorney General's Office, Phoenix,
Arizona
● 10:30 - 10:45 BREAK
● 10:45 - 12:15 DNA Typing in the 21st Century: Tools, Evidence
and the
Courts
The
Honorable George W. Clarke, Judge, Superior Court, County of San Diego, San
Diego, California
● 12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH ON OWN
(Summer
Board Meeting)
● 2:00 - 3:15 THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE
AND SCIENTIFIC
EVIDENCE
Mike Chamberlain, Deputy Attorney General, Office of
the Attorney
General, San Francisco, California
● 3:15
- 3:30 BREAK
● 3:30 - 5:00 CHALLENGES TO SCIENTIFIC
EVIDENCE (NAS Report,
Ballistics,
Fingerprints)
John
Bradley, District Attorney, Williamson County, Georgetown, Texas
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012
Appellate
Breakout
● 8:30 - 9:30 SUPREME COURT: MESSAGE
FROM THE CLERK'S OFFICE
Danny Bickell, Deputy Clerk, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C.
● 9:30 - 10:15 AEDPA DEFERENCE AFTER PINHOLSTER
Edward L. Marshall, Chief, Post-Conviction Litigation
Division,
Texas Attorney General's Office, Austin, Texas
● 10:15 - 10:30 BREAK
● 10:30 - 12:00 HABEAS CORPUS ROUNDTABLE - EMERGING ISSUES
Moderator: J. Kirk Brown, Solicitor General, Nebraska Department of
Justice, Lincoln, Nebraska
● 12:00
- 1:30 LUNCH ON OWN
Trial
Breakout
● 8:30 - 9:30 PICKING A CAPITAL JURY
Kellie Johnson, Deputy
County Attorney, Pima County Attorney's Office, Tucson, Arizona
● 9:30 - 10:30 PROSECUTORS PROTECTING THE
RECORD
Roe Wilson, Assistant District Attorney, Harris County
District
Attorney's
Office, Houston, Texas
● 10:30 - 10:45 BREAK
● 10:45 - 12:00 ARGUING FOR DEATH
Angela
Backers, Senior Deputy District Attorney, Alameda
County
District Attorney's Office, San Leandro, California
● 12:00
- 1:30 LUNCH ON OWN
General Session
● 1:30 - 3:30 ETHICS
(to be announced)
● 3:30 - 3:45 BREAK
● 3:45 - 5:00 DEATH IN CONNECTICUT:
CASE STUDY OF PETTIT CASE
Gary Nicholson, Senior Assistant State's Attorney,
State of Connecticut
Division of
Criminal Justice, Rocky Hill, Connecticut
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2012
● 8:45 - 9:00 AGACL ANNUAL MEETING AND ELECTIONS
● 9:00 - 11:00 EMERGING ISSUES
Dr. Park Dietz, Park Dietz and
Associates, Inc., Newport Beach,
California
