ARKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS presents ANNUAL MEETING & CLE THE HARD SCIENCE OF CRIMINAL TRIALS Thursday, June 4, 2015 7:00pm DoubleTree Hotel President’s Dinner – Sonny Williams Steakhouse 424 West Markham, Little Rock, AR 72201 • (501) 372-4371 Limited Seating - Must RSVP Room rates from $89 to $99 per night Friday, June 5, 2015 (Must be reserved by May 12, 2015) 8:00-8:45 Registration & Welcoming Remarks 8:45-9:45 Expert Evidence and Testimony Lisa Kirsch Satawa, Birmingham, MI 9:45-10:45 Organizing a Case Electronically Prior to May 12th David Andersen, Oakland, CA 11:00-12:00 Understanding Forensic Computer Evidence Jerry Grant, Rochester, NY 12:00-1:30 Lunch on your own (Board Meeting) 1:30-2:30 Cell Phone Forensics and Historical Cell Site Analysis Jerry Grant, Rochester, NY 2:30-3:30 DNA Errors: Lessons from Amanda Knox and Other Cases Dr. Greg Hampikian, Boise, ID 3:45-4:45 2015 Arkansas Legislative Review Charter Members Sustaining/PD Members Regular Members Non Members ___ $ 300.00 ___ $ 300.00 ___ $ 400.00 ___ $ 450.00 Late Registration ($350.00) ($350.00) ($450.00) ($500.00) 1 year membership included ($100 value!) Law Students ___ $ 50.00 ($100.00) Presidents Dinner - RSVP ___ $ 75.00 Mail To: Virginia Kulpanowski AACDL P.O. Box 307 Little Rock, AR 72203 FAX 501-246-8869 PHONE 501-412-8992 EMAIL arkcrimlaw@yahoo.com Name: __________________________________________________________________ Panel, Legislative Committee 5:00-7:00 Address: ________________________________________________________________ Reception Saturday, June 6, 2015 8:45-9:45 9:45-10:45 State/Zip: _______________________________________________________________ The Neuroscience of Competency and Sanity Dr. John Fabian, Austin, TX Firearms and Toolmark Identification Prof. Adina Schwartz, New York City, NY Dr. Paulette Sutton, Memphis, TN and Drew Ledbetter, Fayetteville, AR 12:00-1:30 Lunch (provided) & Awards 1:30-2:30 The Science of False Confessions Dr. Antoinette Kavanaugh, Chicago, IL 3:45-4:45 4:45-5:00 Email: __________________________________________________________________ Payment: 11:00-12:00 The Dynamics of Blood Spatter 2:30-3:30 Phone: ______________________________ Fax: _______________________________ _____ Check _____ Visa _____ Mastercard _____ American Express Card Number: ______________________________________ Exp. Date: ____________ Signature: _______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ TBA I understand that Prosecuting Attorneys are NOT allowed to attend AACDL seminars. By submitting this Registration Form, I hereby certify that I am not a prosecutor, nor am I currently employed by, or working in any capacity whatsoever for, a prosecutor, and I agree to forfeit my registration fee if I am identified as such. Getting What You Need out of Crime Scene Investigation Stanley Wilhite, Little Rock, AR Closing Remarks & Adjournment This Event has been submitted for 12 Hours of Continuing Legal Education Credit in Arkansas, including one (1) Ethics Hour. Agenda remains subject to change. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Y-STR and Mitochondrial DNA Testing ___________________________________________________________________________________ Speaker Bios: Lisa Kirsch Satawa, Birmingham, MI Lisa Kirsch Satawa is currently a member of Clark Hill’s Litigation Practice Group and represents both adults and children under investigation or accused of crimes in Federal, State, and Juvenile courts. She specializes in consulting and defending allegations of child sexual assault and child abuse. Her unique multidisciplinary approach to this specialty focuses on linguistics, forensic interviewing, psychology, and medicine, coupled with the law. Lisa participates in the Sexual Assault Model Policy Project, where she will work with prosecutors, judges, and law enforcement to draft a protocol for law enforcement response to sexual assault. She was awarded the Kimberly M. Cahill Bar Leadership Award from the State Bar of Michigan in 2011 and has been on the faculty of the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan (CDAM) Criminal Trial College since 2005. Lisa was selected by her peers and recognized in Michigan Super Lawyers magazine from 2009-2014, and she was selected in 2014 as one of the Top Women Lawyers in Michigan. David Andersen, Oakland, CA David L. Andersen, of Andersen & Zimmer, has nearly four decades of experience as a trial attorney and an established reputation for achieving strong results on behalf of his clients. Mr. Andersen was selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2007, and has been awarded an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, indicating that fellow attorneys rank him at the highest level of professional excellence. His firm provides representation to criminal defendants in California Courts in Oakland, Alameda County, and throughout the Bay Area. Jerry Grant, Rochester, NY Jerry Grant is an AccessData Certified Examiner, Cellebrite Certified Logical Operator, systems analyst, programmer, and trainer with more than 25 years of experience involving digital forensics, cell site analysis, social site investigations, eDiscovery, and litigation support. He has been qualified as an expert in many state and federal cases, and he is the recipient of many certificates in forensics, specialized computer training, and programming. He is currently an Independent Digital Forensics Investigator and Consultant and serves as a Digital Forensics Investigator for the Western District of New York Federal Public Defender’s Office. He was previously Computer Systems Administrator for the NYW Federal Public Defender’s Office and has been Acting Chief of the National IT LAN Application and Policy Support Team for the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Office of Defender Services. Jerry oversees the NYW automation program, and is involved in national IT/digital forensic support for the Federal Defender Organization. Dr. Greg Hampikian, Boise, ID Dr. Greg Hampikian, of Boise State University, is a national known DNA expert and professor of forensic biology. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he serves as both the Director of the Idaho Innocence Project and the DNA Expert on the Georgia Innocence Project Board. Dr. Hampikian’s scientific work has been published in journals such as Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also co-author of “Exit to Freedom,” which chronicles Calvin Johnson’s 17 year battle to prove his innocence, and ultimately his exoneration, by DNA evidence. In 2012, Dr. Hampikian was named a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election NAI Fellow status is a professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society. Most recently, Dr. Hampikian gained both national and international recognition for his DNA work on the Amanda Knox case. Professor Adina Schwartz, New York City, NY Professor Adina Schwartz currently teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and is an internationally recognized and published expert in evidence law, science and law, criminal procedure, and cyber-surveillance law, social and legal theory, and jurisprudence. Prior to joining the faculty at John Jay, Professor Schwartz was a federal public defender and, before that, an assistant professor in the Yale University Philosophy Department. Her articles have been cited in many court cases and in the National Research Council’s Report on Ballistics Imaging, a seminal work being her article, “A Systemic Challenge to the Reliability and Admissibility of Firearms and Toolmark Identification,” 6 Columbia Science Technology Law Review 1 (March 28, 2005). Dr. Paulette Sutton, Memphis, TN and Drew Ledbetter, Fayetteville, AR Dr. T. Paulette Sutton, one of the world’s leading experts on bloodstains, is the former Assistant Director of Forensic Services and Director of Investigations at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. She has been qualified as an expert in numerous courts, both State and Federal, and she has testified in nationally known murder cases, most recently in the Northwest Arkansas case of former Razorback Joshua Melton. Dr. Sutton has consulted with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and is a member of the Scientific Working Group on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and the Forensic Science Editorial Review Board for CRC Press. Along with two other criminalists, she is co-author of the leading book, “Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: Theory and Practice,” and she is a Distinguished Member of the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts. She has been awarded both the Lecturer of Merit Award and Distinguished Faculty Award from the National College of District Attorneys and the Outstanding Service Award from the FBI. Drew Ledbetter is an experienced trial lawyer practicing exclusively in the area of criminal defense. Based in Fayetteville, Drew represents clients in State and Federal courts, both in Arkansas elsewhere. He was lead counsel on the Joshua Melton homicide case and was recently awarded the title “Best Attorney” by the readers of the Northwest Arkansas Times. Drew is the former Senior Trial Attorney for the Benton County Prosecutor’s Office and has also previously served the 14th Judicial District as the Special Prosecutor for Gun Violence and Narcotics. Stanley Wilhite, Little Rock, AR Stan Wilhite is a retired former member of the Crime Scene Investigation Unit of the Little Rock Police Department and a part-time Instructor of Forensic Science at Remington College. Dr. Antoinette Kavanaugh, Chicago, IL Dr. Antoinette Kavanaugh is a licensed forensic clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience providing forensic assessments and consultation in juvenile, criminal, civil, and capital cases nationwide. With expert training in the fields of psychology and the law, Dr. Kavanaugh employs reliable, research-based evaluation methods and techniques to meet rigorous legal standards. She specializes in, among other things, false or disputed confessions, competency to waive Miranda rights, competency or fitness to stand trial, insanity and diminished capacity, and interrogative suggestibility. Dr. John Fabian, Austin, TX Dr. John Matthew Fabian is both a board certified forensic and clinical psychologist and a fellowship trained clinical neuropsychologist. Dr. Fabian has a national practice specializing in criminal and civil forensic psychological and neuropsychological evaluations. A former director of a state court psychiatric clinic and staff forensic neuropsychologist at a juvenile court diagnostic clinic, he has been an expert witness in approximately 350 murder cases, over 200 of them being capital cases. Dr. Fabian has previously consulted with Neurology and Neurosciences Associates, examining adults with severe neurological dysfunction, and with Applewood Psychiatric Centers, examining high risk urban children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders, mental retardation, seizure disorder, traumatic brain injury, and PTSD. He has also worked as a clinical neuropsychologist and fellow at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine Center for Neuropsychological Services and at the Veteran’s Administration Polytrauma Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD unit. In addition to teaching courses in forensic psychology, neuropsychology and the law, and violence risk assessment, Dr. Fabian has been published in law review, peer review, and bar journals. And more to be announced soon!