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NAPD 2024 Team Mitigation Institute
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Friday, September 6
 

11:45am PDT

The Land We Stand On and Welcome
Speakers
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Jeff Sherr

Training Director, National Association for Public Defense
Jeff Sherr​ is the Training Director for the National Association for Public Defense producing hundreds of webinars for public defense professionals across the nation. Prior to that he was the Manager of the Education and Strategic Planning Branch of the Kentucky Department of Public... Read More →

Friday September 6, 2024 11:45am - 12:15pm PDT
  Plenary

12:15pm PDT

An overview: Mitigation and integration throughout the case from start of case
"There's No "I" In Team"
  • Overview of the goals of mitigation as a team
  • Strengths of functioning mitigation team
  • Getting to know our clients beyond the charges
  • Frontloading Mitigation with the judge, prosecutor and jury (even if going for a not guilty verdict)
  • Demo of theme-based mitigation argument
Speakers
avatar for Stephanne Thornton

Stephanne Thornton

Clinical Director/Owner, West Virginia Judicial and Lawyer Assistance Program/Transform Legal
Stephanne Cline Thornton is the Clinical Director for the West Virginia Judicial and Lawyer Assistance Program and owner of Transform Legal, focusing on mitigation and training. Stephanne is also the Social Work Training and Resource Coordinator for NAPD. She is a Licensed Independent... Read More →

Friday September 6, 2024 12:15pm - 1:15pm PDT
1D
  Plenary

1:30pm PDT

Small Group (see description for assignments and files for maps)
Small Group Assignments

Friday September 6, 2024 1:30pm - 2:15pm PDT
TBA
  Small Groups

2:30pm PDT

Team Mitigation: Creating and working with an Attorney-Led Defense Team of Investigator and Mental Health-Mitigation Specialist
  • The advantages of a multidisciplinary team that is led by the attorney and has an investigator and mitigation specialist with a mental health background
  • Defining roles based on strengths of team members
  • Organizing the tasks and documents
  • Checklist
Friday September 6, 2024 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
  Plenary

3:45pm PDT

Small group
  • Creating your Mitigation Team
  • Initial communication to Team
  • communicating responsibilities
  • Maintaining the file
  • Checklists
Friday September 6, 2024 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
TBA
  Small Groups, Working Lunch
 
Saturday, September 7
 

8:30am PDT

The Why: Creating the Story of Mitigation
  • Answering the why questions to create build compassion
  • Striking the balance between connecting the audience with the client’s strengths and the challenges faced by our client. 
  • Putting the world right again through restoration, punishment and deterrence 
  • Paint the picture of a future for the client after the sentence is complete 
Saturday September 7, 2024 8:30am - 9:30am PDT
  Plenary

9:45am PDT

Small Group
  • WhyStorming – identifying the questions that must be answered
  • Finding those answers through investigation
  • Draft the theory of mitigation

Saturday September 7, 2024 9:45am - 11:30am PDT
TBA
  Small Groups

11:30am PDT

Lunch
Saturday September 7, 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
TBA
  Lunch

1:00pm PDT

Mental illness, chemical dependency and our clients
  • Weaving these facts into the story of our client so they are perceived as mitigating rather than aggravating.

Saturday September 7, 2024 1:00pm - 2:15pm PDT
  Plenary

2:30pm PDT

Mapping to Tell the Story
  • Creative uses of maps and other images to turn data into a story
Speakers
avatar for Amy Nguyen

Amy Nguyen

GIS Analyst, Capital Maps, LLC
Amy Nguyen is a Researcher, GIS Analyst and owner of Capital Maps, LLC in the Dallas, Texas area. Her specialty is mapping Department of Justice community risk factors and performing demographic analysis. She holds master’s level certification in Geographic Information Systems (GIS... Read More →

Saturday September 7, 2024 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
1D
  Plenary

3:45pm PDT

Small Group
  • Defense Team develops a plan, responsibilities assigned, work product reviewed and evaluated



Saturday September 7, 2024 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
TBA
  Small Groups
 
Sunday, September 8
 

9:30am PDT

Race, Cultural History and Mitigation



Sunday September 8, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am PDT
  Plenary

11:00am PDT

Small Group




Sunday September 8, 2024 11:00am - 12:15pm PDT
  Small Groups

12:30pm PDT

Closing


Speakers
avatar for Lori James-Townes

Lori James-Townes

Executive Director, NAPD
Lori James-Townes is the Executive Director of the National Association of Public Defense. Lori assumed this leadership position after three years of working as Assistant Training Director for NAPD and more than 25 years of working on defense teams representing indigent defendants... Read More →
avatar for Jeff Sherr

Jeff Sherr

Training Director, National Association for Public Defense
Jeff Sherr​ is the Training Director for the National Association for Public Defense producing hundreds of webinars for public defense professionals across the nation. Prior to that he was the Manager of the Education and Strategic Planning Branch of the Kentucky Department of Public... Read More →

Sunday September 8, 2024 12:30pm - 1:00pm PDT
  Plenary
 
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