Send us a text Featuring: Michael Moore, Beadle County State's Attorney, co-chair of ABACJS Prosecution Function Committee and Past President of the National District Attorney's Association. Is Bill Cosby free due to prosecutorial misconduct? Michael helps answer the question "What happens when a prosecutor is accused of misconduct?" We also take the time to discuss the parameters of prosecutorial misconduct and distinguishing between error and misconduct. Want to get involved with the Criminal ...
Aug 25, 2021•21 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Send us a text Featuring: Neal Sonnett, Criminal Defense Attorney and former CJS Chair. Stephen Saltzburg, Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law. Co-director of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program at George Washington University School of Law. Former CJS Chair. The ABA policymaking body met Aug. 9-10 at the Hybrid Annual Meeting to debate and vote on a wide range of policy issues. CJS Delegates, Steve Saltzburg and Neal Sonnett join us to talk about the CJS resoluti...
Aug 18, 2021•28 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Send us a text Featuring: April Frazier Camara, CJS Chair and Chief, Lifelong Learning with National Legal Aid & Defender Association Wayne McKenzie Incoming Criminal Justice Section Chair and General Counsel at NYC Department of Probation April and Wayne joins us to give an update on recent events for the Section but also to formally pass the gavel from one chair to the next. April reflects on her year as chair and leaves a message for Section members. Wayne provides us with a preview of wh...
Aug 11, 2021•24 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Send us a text Featuring: Faraz Mohammadi, Assistant United States Attorney, Central District of California Faraz joins us to discuss the current state of legislation banning conversion therapy. We discuss current statutes, their limitations, the prevalence of conversion therapy and the need for a federal ban. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Jul 28, 2021•24 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Send us a text Featuring: Roy Austin Jr., Vice President for Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel, Civil Rights at Facebook. Former Deputy Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs, Justice and Opportunity. Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice. It's been a year since the racial justice protests of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd. Many police reforms were passed in response to these protests but what has been their impact? Are...
Jul 21, 2021•22 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Send us a text Featuring: Rory Little, Joseph W. Cotchett Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law. Rory joins us again to help us review the criminal cases of the Supreme Court October 2020 Term. Rory helps provide background, summaries and insight from the most impactful cases of this term like Van Buren, 4th Amendment cases, Jones v. Mississippi and more. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Jul 15, 2021•43 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Send us a text Featuring: Bruce Zagaris of Berliner Corcoran and Rowe Bruce joins us to discuss the new Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020. Bruce walks us through the enforcement changes that will be implemented by Act. Additionally, Bruce discusses the comment period for this Act and how CJS will be participating. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Jun 30, 2021•24 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Send us a text Featuring: Daryl Atkinson and Jeremy Travis from Columbia University's Square One Project. Daryl and Jeremy join us to discuss their recent publication and proposal to use the "Power of Parsimony" to transform the criminal justice system. The Power of Parsimony Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Jun 23, 2021•27 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Send us a text Featuring: CJS Chair, April Frazier Camara Our Chair, April joins us to give an update on upcoming events. Spoiler alert: in-person events are returning this Fall! April provides an update on all the other activities going on with the Section. CJS Events CJ Magazine: Racial Justice Issue Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Jun 16, 2021•12 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Send us a text Featuring: Dr. Leslie Anne Ross, Psy. D Dr. Ross joins us to share strategies and resources for managing vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue or empathic strain. Many attorneys in criminal law are at risk of experiencing these strains do to the nature of the work. What are the self reflective questions to ask yourself? How do set your own standards to measure your well being? Listen as Dr. Ross tells us how to do that. Here is a list of resources the Dr. Ross shared on this epi...
Jun 09, 2021•25 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Send us a text Featuring: Arjun Sethi, political rights writer, human rights lawyer, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School. Arjun is also the Co-Chair of the ABACJS Committee on Homeland Security, Terrorism & Treatment of Enemy Combatants. Arjun breaks down the recent actions taken on the federal level to mitigate hate crime, specifically the rise in Asian American hate crime due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Arjun walks us through ...
May 26, 2021•21 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Send us a text Featuring: William Merriweather, 2L New England Law Cynthia Orr, Managing Partner with Goldstein & Orr Rory Little, Joseph W. Cotchett, Jr., Professor of Law at U.C. Hastings College of the Law Avis Sanders, Director of the Externship Program American University Washington College of Law We are joined by four guests to share their best advice for securing an internship. We discuss how to leverage your network, how to secure a judicial externship, how to stand out in the applic...
May 21, 2021•34 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Send us a text Featuring: Olinda Moyd, adjunct Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law. Olinda joins us to discuss potential reform for the parole system. We discuss the potential impact of implicit bias training, increased diversity of parole boards, reducing supervision periods, providing better resources and more. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
May 12, 2021•27 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Send us a text Featuring Jonathan Gitlen, Law Office of Jonathan Gitlen and former Director of the National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction Project. Jonathan joins us for a discussion of the origins and impact of collateral consequences of conviction. Jonathan also details the work of the National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction Project, managed by the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section. Finally, we discuss how the database...
May 05, 2021•30 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Send us a text Featuring: Patricia Richman, National Sentencing Resource Counsel for Federal Public and Community Defenders. Patricia walks us through the history of scheduling Fentanyl Analogues, including the 2018 class-wide scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues as Schedule I drugs. We discuss the potential impact of scheduling Fentanyl Analogues as Schedule I drugs and what the data from the last three years has shown. Additionally, we discuss alternative means to address public health and safety ...
Apr 28, 2021•26 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Send us a text Featuring: Linda Seabrook , General Counsel and Director of Workplace Safety & Equity for Futures Without Violence and Rebecca Henry , Deputy Chief Counsel of the Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence for the American Bar Association. Linda and Rebecca join us on the podcast to discuss the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2021. After a brief history of the Act, we discuss new provisions, what "reauthorization" means practically and we talk about the gun vio...
Apr 21, 2021•24 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Send us a text Janet I. Levine of Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP joins us to share tips and best practices for laying a foundation at trial. Levine leads us through the steps from authenticating evidence to requests for judicial notice. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Apr 14, 2021•24 min•Ep. 12
Send us a text Jim Felman, Partner with Kynes Markman & Felman and Chair of the Task Force on the Implementation of the First Step Act joins us to walk us through the recent report published by the Task Force. You can read the full report on our website . Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Apr 08, 2021•29 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Send us a text Cameron McBride, Principal with Oster McBride Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes of Passaic County, New Jersey Honorable Denise Langford Morris, Oakland County Circuit Court Judge These three women in criminal justice share the journey of their respective career paths. Join us as they share pivotal moments, things they wish they had known and keys to success. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Apr 01, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Send us a text Jeff Tsai, former federal prosecutor joins us to discuss the challenges and opportunities of prosecuting and preventing hate crime in the wake of the Atlanta mass shooting hate crime. We discuss the role of the prosecutor as well as the other stake holders, and society, in addressing hate crime through policy and criminal justice reform. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Mar 26, 2021•37 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Send us a text ABACJS Chair, April Frazier Camara returns to provide an update on the activity of the Section. We discuss Midyear, what to expect for in-person events, the Greenhalgh Writing Competition and more. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now
Mar 17, 2021•14 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Send us a text Professor Stephen Saltzburg of George Washington University Law School, joins us to provide an update on the House of Delegates, Midyear 2021. Steve shares an update on the six resolutions that ABACJS cosponsored during this session. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Mar 10, 2021•18 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Send us a text Professor Maryam Ahranjani from the University of New Mexico and Reporter of the Women in Criminal Justice Task Force joins us to report on the initial findings of the Task Force. She talks about the method, the patterns, the problems, the solutions and what comes next. Just in time to kick off women's history month! "Toughen Up, Buttercup" versus #TimesUp: Initial Findings of the ABA Women in Criminal Justice Task Force Follow along with the work of the Women in Criminal Justice ...
Mar 03, 2021•31 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Send us a text Paul Henderson, Director for San Francisco's Department of Police Accountability, helps us review the policing of January 6th. There are many questions that need answers. We discuss use of force, volume of law enforcement, the impact of 2020 police reform and potential racial bias. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Feb 18, 2021•37 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Send us a text Trey Gowdy with Nelson Mullins and former U.S. Representative, joins us to answer questions around the current Capitol Riot congressional investigation. Gowdy helps explain the differences between an investigation led by congress vs. an investigation led by the DOJ or states attorney’s office and what we might see in terms of future congressional investigations around the Capitol Riot. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/mem...
Feb 10, 2021•24 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Send us a text Professor Bruce Green of Fordham Law School, joins us to help answer questions of ethics around lawyers participating in the election fraud cases and investigation methods being used post Capitol Riot. He directs us toward standards and model rules applicable in these cases. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Feb 04, 2021•26 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Send us a text Our ABACJS Cybercrime committee chairs join us to discuss the potential cybercrimes around the January 6th attack on the Capitol. We also discuss the technology investigative tools, privacy and more. Featuring: Jason Gonzalez, Partner at Nixon Peabody. Jody Westby, CEO Cyber Risk LLC. Matthew Esworthy, Partner at Bowie & Jensen. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Jan 28, 2021•31 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Send us a text Joe Whitley of Baker Donelson, who also served as the first General Counsel for the United States Department of Homeland Security joins us for a special episode to review the events of January 6th. We discuss voter fraud and where and with whom there is potential criminal liability from that day. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Jan 21, 2021•52 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Send us a text Chair April Frazier-Camara joins us to give us an update on the Section. We recap highlights from the Fall Institute before jumping into new CJS projects: the Policing Project and the Criminal Justice Practice-Ready Clinic and more. Details for CJS publication submissions here: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/criminal_justice/faq/publications/...
Nov 25, 2020•11 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Send us a text Imran Ali joins us to discuss the prosecution of child trafficking. We discuss how to identify victims, how to build a case, trial strategy and addressing the unique challenges that layers of trauma play in these cases. Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now...
Nov 19, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 39
