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For Immediate Release
June 03, 2010 |
Contact: Nicole Triplett
Jonathan Godfrey |
MEDIA ADVISORY
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The Constitutional Right to Counsel Summit:
A Dialogue on the State Public Defense Crisis & the Federal Response |
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2141 Rayburn House Office Building |
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
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WHO: |
Members:
- Hon. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Chair, House Judiciary Committee
- Hon. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-Va.), Chair, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security
Panel One: The Right to Counsel Crisis in the States
- John Chisholm, District Attorney, Milwaukee County, WI
- Alan Crotzer, Probation & Community Intervention Officer, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
- Carlos Martinez, Public Defender, Miami-Dade County, FL
- Hon. Carolyn Temin, Sr. Judge, Court of Common Pleas, 1st Judicial District of Pennsylvania
- Hon. Michael Wolff, Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri
- Melanca Clark (Moderator), Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Panel Two: The Federal Response to the Right to Counsel Crisis
- Nancy Diehl, Former Prosecutor, Wayne County, MI; President of the State Bar of Michigan (2004-2005)
- George Kendall, Of Counsel and Director of Public Service Initiative, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, New York, NY
- Adele Bernhard, Associate Professor, and Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Center at Pace Law School
- Laurence Tribe, Sr. Counsel for Access to Justice Initiative, U.S. Department of Justice; Former Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School
- Virginia Sloan (Moderator), President, The Constitution Project
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