These three-day conferences are designed to address the specific challenges presented by each defense team’s actual pending death penalty case. Participants work closely with an expert faculty of nationally renowned capital defense attorneys and mitigation specialists in large group plenary sessions and small group workshops. Training sessions tackle topics from brainstorming the case and.
On Nov. 17, 2017, the military commission in United States v. al-Nashiri reconvened for the purpose of receiving testimony from Professor Ellen Yaroshefsky, an ethics advisor to defendant’s learned counsel Richard Kammen, who had previously resigned over undisclosed ethics concerns. The defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was present for the first time in multiple hearings.
Attorney-client privilege trumps child abuse reporting law, court rules Elijah W. ruling clarifies thorny issue in California Forensic psychologists are split as to whether we must breach confidentiality when a criminal defendant divulges child abuse or threatens physical harm to others. On the one hand, here in California a psychologist can be criminally prosecuted under the Child Abuse and.
Again, the defense team’s strategy was a not guilty plea, while they concur that Arias admitted to killing Travis Alexander, they assert it was self-defense. They also claimed she fit the profile of a woman suffering from Battered Woman Syndrome. Although Arias does meet the criteria for a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, it is my assertion that there is a high likelihood.
The Duke Lacrosse case was a rape case that involved false rape charges against three Duke University lacrosse players, began with gang rape allegations by an exotic dancer at a team party in March 2006. Crystal an African American student at North Carolina Central University who worked as a stripper dancer and escort,accused three white Duke University students, members of the Duke Blue.
Defense attorney James Connell condemned what he called an uncharacteristically long and cumbersome commission process. He complained to reporters that this week’s pretrial hearings, and those before them, had consumed “so much time and so much money,” while “accomplishing so little.” Nevin defended the defense team’s challenges to the commission system. Doing so, he said, ensures.
SAMPLE INVESTIGATION PLAN NOTE: This sample is a rough guide for the defense team’s initial investigation plan. Because each case is different, counsel should adopt this sample investigation plan to the unique facts and circumstances of her client’s case and life history. I. INVESTIGATE SOCIAL HISTORY A. Interview family members, obtain records releases: 1. Carolyn Client (mother), 123.
But her team’s bombshell discovery is this: an internet search done for “foolproof suffocation” on the Anthonys’ home computer was actually made an hour later than initially believed, with a software glitch accounting for the discrepancy. While Defense Attorney Jose Baez referenced this search (which was missed by the prosecution) in his book and theorized that it was done by the.
The defense teams for Frederick and Ambuhl both asked to add psychiatric experts. The judge granted the request from Frederick's team to add Dr. Frank Zimbardo to the defense team. Ambuhl's team's request for Dr. Craig Haney to assist in their defense was not approved. The judge did, however, order the government to supply a psychology expert by Sept. 2.
Isolation of Components of Bc Powder! Isolation of the Components of BC Powder Introduction Aspirin, Caffeine and Salicylamide were extracted from an over-the-counter pain reliever (BC Powder). These components were separated by manipulating their solubilities by adjusting the acidity and basicity of the solution. By doing this, the three components were forced into conjugate acid (or base.
In the wake of the circuit court’s strong recommendation, and with oversight provided by a panel of experts that included Barry Scheck, a former member of O. J. Simpson’s defense team and now the director of the Innocence Project, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen M. Rice put together a team of investigators to reinterview many of the case’s key participants, review evidence and.