Amanda Powell Juvenile Certification Materials (Competency)
2019 SPD Annual Criminal Defense Conference
LINKS TO PROGRAM MATERIALS
Thursday, November 7—MORNING SESSIONS
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Regency Ballroom (2nd Floor) |
Lakeshore Ballroom (1st Floor) |
Milwaukee Room (2nd Floor) |
Executive AB Room (2nd Floor) |
Executive CD Room (2nd Floor) |
Gilpatrick Room (1st Floor) |
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9:30-10:30 |
Establishing a Trauma- Informed Client-Lawyer Relationship Alison Bloomquist
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Crimmigration 101 Melissa Nepomiachi, Alli Pederson and Katena Roberts-Turner |
What the Wisconsin State Law Library Can Do for You Jaime Healy-Plotkin |
SPD Support Staff Seminar Topics: Confidentiality, Legal Advice, Verbal Defense and Influence
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Criminal Defense Investigator Lab Topics: Subpoenas and Records Requests,, Forensic Child Interviews, Social Media, Cell Phone Evidence and Google Apps
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Client Services Specialists Workshop Topics: Sentencing Memos, COMPAS, DOC Programming, ATRs, TPR Cases, Talking to Child Victims and Witnesses
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10:45-12:00 |
The Criminalization of Blackness Professor Robert Smith, Margaret Johnson and Leon Todd, Moderated by Sharlen Moore
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Treatment Court 101 Emily Nolan-Plutchak and Katy Burke
Materials:
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Child Advocacy and Schools Julie Majerus (DPI), Julie Incitti (DPI) and Jillian Young (DCF)
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Thursday, November 7—AFTERNOON SESSIONS
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Regency Ballroom (2nd Floor) |
Lakeshore Ballroom (1st Floor) |
Milwaukee Room (2nd Floor) |
Executive AB Room (2nd Floor) |
Executive CD Room (2nd Floor) |
Gilpatrick Room (1st Floor) |
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1:15-2:15
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Can I talk to this witness? A Discussion about Rule 20:4.2 Tim Pierce, Suzanne O’Neill, and Ray Richards Moderated by Anna Peterson
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Fourth Amendment Challenges to Traffic Stops Adam Welch
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Cert Granted! Getting Your Case Heard in the U.S. Supreme Court Andrew Hinkel and Christopher Sobic
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Lived Experience Journey: Unmasking Mental Illness Panelists: Venez Blackmon, Susan Jevaltas, Heidi Plach, and Jackie McKay Moderator: Susanne Vella from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Greater Milwaukee
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Case Dismissed: Why the Intrastate Detainer Statute Should be on your Radar Matthew Pinix
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Racial Bias Discussion Circle
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2:15-3:15 |
Wisconsin Supreme Court Update Dave Perlman
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The Nuts and Bolts of Handling a Revocation Case Faun Moses, Kelly Mattingly, Vanessa Korias and ALJ Lisa Marmet
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How to Find Meritorious Issues in your Appellate Case Nicole Masnica, Carly Cusack, Catherine Malchow and Tristan Breedlove Moderated by Kaitlin Lamb |
Communication for De-Escalation Dr. Eileen Abrams
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Criminal Defense Investigator Lab Topics: Subpoenas and Records Requests, Forensic Child Interviews, Social Media, Cell Phone Evidence and Google Apps
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Client Services Specialists Workshop Topics: Sentencing Memos, COMPAS, DOC Programming, ATRs, TPR Cases, Talking to Child Victims and Witnesses |
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3:30-4:30
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Competently and Diligently Preparing your Client for Sentencing… AND the Sentence Christian Thomas |
The Nuts and Bolts of Handling a Revocation Case continued...
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Appellate Review of TPR: Practice Fundamentals and Case Law Update Colleen Marion and Ellen Krahn
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Defense Counsel Role in Treatment Courts Emily Nolan-Plutchak, Catherine Dorl and Katy Burke
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Criminal Defense Investigator Lab Topics: Subpoenas and Records Requests,, Forensic Child Interviews, Social Media, Cell Phone Evidence and Google Apps |
How to Use Learned Treatises in Your Trials Stephen Hurley and Kathleen Pakes |
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It’s for our Client: Trial and Appellate Counsel Working Together to Improve Client Outcomes Katie York and Andrea Cornwall
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How Interracial Interactions can Cause Racial Anxiety...and What we can do about it Margaret Johnson
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Boettcher, Beets, Battlestar Galactica! Ensuring our Clients' Entitlement to Sentence Credit Christopher August and Jeremy Newman
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Child Welfare Research: What Parent Attorneys Need to Know Michael Heard and Amelia Watson |
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Basics Jennifer Grossman, Nurses 4 Social Justice
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Mitigation Videos: How they Can Help you Help your Clients Chris Lang and Kat Yanke
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Friday, November 8—MORNING SESSIONS
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Regency Ballroom (2nd Floor)
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Lakeshore Ballroom (1st Floor) |
Milwaukee Room (2nd Floor) |
Executive Room (2nd Floor)
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Gilpatrick Room (1st Floor) |
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8:30-9:30 |
United States Supreme Court Update Cecelia Klingele
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Over the Limit, Under Arrest, Not Guilty--How to Try an OWI Case with a Bad Test Result Adam Welch
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Wisconsin Department of Health Services: Updates, Hot Topics & Resources for Forensic Cases Beth Dodsworth, Alyssa Fisher, Erik Knudson and Adam Oldenburg
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Alleged Criminal Injuries Jennifer Grossman, Nurses 4 Social Justice
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What are your computer dilemmas and dreams? A Conversation with the SPD’s IT Staff Ehren Hasz, Wesley Hinkley, Chandru Solraj and Troy Malinowski, Facilitated by Jon Padgham |
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9:30-10:30 |
Social Dominance and Anti-Racism Professor Carlton Waterhouse
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The Nuts and Bolts of Representing Clients in Chapter 51 Cases Matthew Giesfeldt and Eric Heywood
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Prosecutorial Burden-Shifting: Can the Prosecutor Say That? (and what to do if he does) Patrick Anderson
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Bending Toward Justice—One Client at a Time Alison Bloomquist
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Interdisciplinary Parent Representation: Why it’s Good for our Clients Michael Heard and Amelia Watson
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10:45-12:00 |
It’s Not Jury Selection; It’s Jury De-Selection Katie Kegel
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Science-Dependent Litigation: Finding, Analyzing and Strategizing Scientific Concepts Kathleen Pakes and Evan Weitz |
Medical Records Revealed Jennifer Grossman, Nurses 4 Social Justice
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Overview of the Youth Assessment and Screening Instrument (YASI) Devon Lee (DCF)
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Friday, November 8—AFTERNOON SESSIONS
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Regency Ballroom (2nd Floor) |
Lakeshore Ballroom (1st Floor) |
Milwaukee Room (2nd Floor) |
Executive Room (2nd Floor) |
Gilpatrick Room (1st Floor) |
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1:15-2:15 |
We Can’t Take Care of our Clients if we don’t Take Care of Ourselves: Mindfulness for Lawyers Jon Krop
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An Opportunity to Consult (Face to Face!) with the Agency’s Practice Coordinators
SPD Practice Groups include: ● Juvenile ● Family Defense ● Immigration ● Forensic Science ● Racial and Ethnic Disparity ● Abusive Head Trauma ● Chapter 980
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Winning the CCW Jury Trial Amanda Parent
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Treatment Court Team Members Check-In Meeting Facilitated by Jon Padgham
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Privately-Filed TPRs: Building the Defense Case Elisabeth Stockbridge, Ryan Reid and Trisha Fritz
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2:15-3:15 |
Antipsychotic Medications and their Long-Term Effects: What the Defense Team Needs to Know Elizabeth Rich and Dr. Toby Watson
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RACE...it’s not a dirty word: Bringing Race to the Fore during Voir Dire Joshua Hargrove
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CHIPS Pilot Check-In Meeting for the Five Pilot Counties: Racine, Kenosha, Outagamie, Brown and Winnebago
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Racial Bias Discussion Circle
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3:30-5:00 |
Take No Prisoners: How the FBI and Human Psychology can Ethically Help Us Keep our Clients out of Prison Guy Cardamone
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2020 SPD Annual Criminal Defense Conference
Presenter Bios
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Click here for a complete list of presenters in pdf format.
2020 SPD Annual Criminal Defense Conference
-Speaker Biographies-
Jennifer Dean Andrews is the Chief Staff Attorney with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. Prior to her appointment as the Chief Staff Attorney in 2011, she served for more than twenty years as a senior staff attorney with the District 2 Court of Appeals. She was a law clerk for the Honorable Robert D. Sundby, District IV Court of Appeals, and prior to that an associate attorney and law clerk at DeWitt, Sundby, Huggett, Schumacher & Morgan, S.C. of Madison. She received her J.D., from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
2020 SPD Annual Criminal Defense Conference
-Speaker Biographies-
Tom Aquino has been a staff attorney in the Madison Appellate office of the State Public Defender since 2016. Beforehand Tom was in private practice, first in Boston then in Madison, handling trial and appellate matters in both criminal and civil cases.
2020 SPD Annual Criminal Defense Conference
-Speaker Biographies-
Christopher August is an Assistant State Public Defender in the Milwaukee Appellate Office, where he has worked since 2016. Before arriving at the SPD, Christopher was based in Madison and worked as both a solo practitioner and as a member of a small office providing affordable legal services. Christopher is a proud graduate of UW Law School and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He lives in Glendale with his wife (also a lawyer), a tiny human, and a growing army of small furry creatures.
2020 SPD Annual Criminal Defense Conference
-Speaker Biographies-
Beth Dodsworth, LCSW, is the director of the Bureau of Community Forensic Services for the Division of Care and Treatment Services at the Department of Health Services. She is responsible for administering the conditional release, supervised release, outpatient competency evaluation, outpatient competency restoration and court liaison services programs. Additionally, she coordinates civil and forensic services across DHS facilities, community programs, and county behavioral health systems. She has over 27 years of experience working with Wisconsin’s criminal justice system.
2020 SPD Annual Criminal Defense Conference
-Speaker Biographies-
Kate Drury is the Regional Attorney Manager for the Stevens Point region, and, has been with the agency for about six years. Kate recently served on a statewide committee addressing best practices for the implementation of Zoom in Wisconsin courts. Her favorite COVID coping strategy is chocolate.
2020 SPD Annual Criminal Defense Conference
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Trisha Fritz is a staff attorney in the Green Bay office currently and previously in the Racine office. Attorney Fritz is a 2009 graduate of UW-Madison, an alumni of AmeriCorps NCCC and AmeriCorps State/National, and a 2014 graduate of Marquette Law School. She has filed three interlocutory appeals in the last three years. Atty. Marion and Atty. Fritz tag teamed an interlocutory appeal that was successful in overturning a ruling of partial summary judgment on an abandonment ground. She loves the stressful short time period of filing interlocutory appeals and the rush of sticking it to a Judge mid-case.
2020 SPD Annual Criminal Defense Conference
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Michael Kawi joined the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Texas in 2018 as a member of their trial division. Prior to joining the Federal Defender Program he worked as an assistant public defender in Miami-Dade County from 2012-2017. During his time as a trial attorney he has conducted dozens of jury trials. Prior to becoming a public defender, he participated in Georgetown University Law Center’s Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy clinic, and graduated from the law center in 2012. Mr. Kawi graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2009 having studied philosophy, poetry, and American songwriting, separately, and sometimes all at once.