NHACDL Presents - A Criminal Cornucopia
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NHACDL will hold its Fall CLE on Friday, October 14, 2016 at The Holiday Inn in Concord, NH.  Registration will begin at 8 am and the CLE start promptly at 8:30 am.  The CLE will include 6 Hours of CLE Credit with 1 hour of ethics.  A continental breakfast and afternoon snacks will be served. Lunch is on your own.  

Cost includes 6 hours of CLE credit with one hour of ethics and written materials via email. Materials are available on a flash drive for an extra $10. Register HERE on-line or send in this FORM by mail with your check.
 
Topics and Speakers Include:
Lauren Weisfeld and Jennifer Bourn - Snitches and how to challenge their unreliable testimony
Lauren Weisfeld has been a criminal defense attorney since 1978, and has represented clients in juvenile court, trial courts, and on appeal. She has handled death penalty cases at trial and on appeal. She currently heads Connecticut's Office of the Chief Public Defender appellate unit, and recently won a reversal in Connecticut’s intermediate Appellate Court in State v. Leniart 166 Conn. App. 142, 140 A.3d 1026 (2016), where expert testimony on the use of informants was excluded erroneously. The state is seeking to appeal to Connecticut's Supreme Court.

Jennifer Bourn is a public defender in Connecticut’s Office of the Chief Public Defender appellate unit. She graduated from the UCONN School of Law, with honors, in 2004, and was awarded the Blumenfeld Prize for excellence in representing clients in the criminal trial clinic. She worked in a small private practice doing criminal and civil rights litigation including trial and appellate work in state and federal courts. She then joined the Habeas Corpus Unit of Connecticut’s Office of the Chief Public Defender, and joined to the Appellate Unit five years later. She has worked on death penalty trials and appeals throughout her practice. One of those cases involves significant Brady litigation, and she chairs a Brady working group. She recently presented on snitches at a meeting of Connecticut defense attorneys.
Todd A. Berger - Children of a Lesser Crime - ethics and client decision-making: who tellls the jury you are guilty of the lesser?
Professor Berger joined the Syracuse University College of Law faculty in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic. Prior to joining the College of Law, he was the founding Managing Attorney of the Federal Prisoner Reentry Project at Rutgers School of Law-Camden. Previously, he worked as an assistant public defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia, representing indigent defendants throughout all stages of the criminal justice system, from preliminary arraignment through trial and post-verdict motions.  He worked as a supervisor in both the Municipal Court and Felony Waiver Units, assisting new attorneys in trial preparation and courtroom practice.  He also served in the Major Trials Unit representing clients in jury trials involving serious felony charges.  He was also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law where he taught the Criminal Defense Clinic.  Professor Berger earned a bachelor’s degree from the George Washington University and Juris Doctor from Temple University School of Law.  He also earned an L.L.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple University.

Mike Iacopino - Darknets on the Edge of Town:  Suppression in Child Pornography Cases
Mike is the senior partner in the firm Brennan, Lenehan, Iacopino and Hickey in Manchester.  WIth more than 30 years of trial experience, Mike represents clients in every court in the state and before numerous administrative agencies. He is often called upon to train other lawyers in the art and science of trial advocacy. He has served and continues to serve as a leader in various bar association activities and is a Past President of NHACDL and former director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
David Hirsch - The Science (or lack thereof) in Shaken Baby Cases
David Hirsch spent years and years handling sexual offender commitment cases, exclusively, in Washington and Massachusetts. Then, six years ago, a Shaken Baby Syndrome appeal landed in his lap. Six years later, he won the case (and another shaken baby syndrome case) in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and was suddenly deemed an expert. He practices out of his home office in Portsmouth, NH.
Anna Elbroch - The Current State of Juvenile Defense
Anna Elbroch worked at NH Public Defender for a total of 9 of the last 15 years of her career. She successfully advocated to solely represent juveniles as a public defender, providing a holistic approach to delinquency cases. She broadened her juvenile practice beyond delinquency to representing youth in CHINS, abuse and neglect, marital and education matters while working privately for Samdperil & Welsh. Anna has worked to improve the lives of youth in New Hampshire as a former member of the Board of New England Juvenile Defender Center, Chase Home, Seacoast Framework for Collaboration and the Advisory Committee for Big Brother and Big Sister while working collaboratively with NHLA, DHHS, placement providers, community service providers and other stakeholders. She is currently appointed to the New Hampshire Board of Psychologists. In addition, she works as a sole practitioner in Exeter while also teaching juvenile justice at SNHU.
Len Harden - Rule 12 Discovery and Other Entertaining Criminal Procedure Rules  
Leonard D. Harden is a solo practitioner focusing solely on DWI and criminal defense cases in Northern New Hampshire. Len is the only lawyer in Coos County that handles criminal defense exclusively. He has over 20 years of experience in criminal law and a successful track record in defending clients. He is on the NHACDL board of directors and has offices in Lancaster, Littleton and Lebanon. He is a long suffering Buffalo Bills fan stranded in Northern New England and thinks that this helps him to have the internal fortitude to fight the hard fights required as a defense lawyer where judges, clients and prosecutors keep saying no to everything.
Melissa Davis and Alex Parsons - The Felonies First Train - coming to a stop near you!
The Felonies First program has been in Strafford and Cheshire Counties for several months.  It is expanding soon. This session will review the changes that have been seen so far.  
Melissa Davis has worked as a New Hampshire Public Defender since graduating from American University, Washington College of Law in 2005.  She has worked in the Dover office and spent some time in the Orford office as welll.  
Alex Parsons has worked in the Keene Office of the New Hampshire Public Defender since graduating from Yale Law in 2005.  He has been the managing attorney of that office since July 2015.

This CLE is open to defense practitioners only.