Eyewitness Identification: Litigation Training for Florida Defenders

When: January 27, 2012

Where: Renaissance Orlando Airport Hotel

5445 Forbes Place, Orlando, FL 32812

This full-day litigation training for Florida defenders will provide:

A comprehensive primer on the social science research in the area of eyewitness identification and memory;
A thorough examination of the current, inadequate test for evaluating identifications;
Litigation tools for attacking the admissibility, reliability and weight assigned to identifications at all stages of the criminal trial; and
A discussion of how renewed litigation efforts can usher in a new and more appropriate due process standard for evaluating the admissibility and reliability of eyewitness evidence.

Click here to download the entire brochure for the seminar, including hotel information, schedule for the day and registration form. Click here to register for the seminar.

Faculty

A distinguished group of lawyers, experienced in providing similar trainings in other states, will surely make this a seminar that no defender should miss. Training faculty members include:

Barry Scheck, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Innocence Project
James M. Doyle, Attorney with Carney & Bassil, Boston
Timothy P. O’Toole, Partner at the law firm of Miller and Chevalier
Lisa Hasel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology and Law, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida
Karen A. Newirth, Eyewitness Identification Litigation Fellow at the Innocence Project
Seth E. Miller, Executive Director of the Innocence Project of Florida