Presenter: Stephany Reaves, Staff Attorney, PDS Trial Division

In the age of COVID-19, pretrial detention poses a deadly consequence for clients, and, at the very least, severely worsened conditions under which they are held pretrial. This presentation will focus on strategic ways to challenge the statutory and constitutional problems created by indefinitely extending pretrial detention. Please join us for a discussion on effective strategies for advocating and winning your client's compassionate release from pretrial detention.

Presenters:    Alice Wang, Deputy Chief, Appellate Division, PDS
                        Stefanie Schneider, Staff Attorney, Appellate Division, PDS

Come learn about the most important recent Supreme Court and District of Columbia appellate decisions affecting your criminal defense practice. Discussion will focus on cases decided in the past year. Join us for one of our most popular annual sessions.

Presenter: Kevann Gardner, Supervising Attorney, Trial Division, PDS

The most effective cross-examination tool is the witness statement given to your investigator. This presentation will explore ways to direct your investigator on the critical issues for a game changing statement. And what happens when a government witness denies writing, signing, or even being present for a statement that your investigator has taken? You put your investigator on the witness stand and show yet another way how the witness is making things up. Learn from the best as the presenter discusses effective direct and re-direct examinations of defense investigators.