Part 2 of NHACDL's Fall CLE series will be held November 20, 2020 via Zoom. (Part 1 was held on October 16, 2020). The November 20 session will also include the Annual Meeting and awarding of this year's Champion of Justice. The cost for members is $50 to attend one session, or attend both for $80. Click HERE to register.
12:30-1:30 Polygraphs: A Practical Guide for the Defense Practitioner. In this segment, Jeff Odland will provide an overview of the law of polygraphy and retired FBI polygrapher Michael De La Pena will conduct a practical demonstration of a polygraph test.
Jeff Odland has represented thousands of New Hampshire residents charged with crimes. He has previously trained other lawyers in trial skills, including the rules of evidence and the art of cross-examination, as well as the intricacies of the New Hampshire wiretapping statute. He worked at the New Hampshire Public Defender Program from 2008 until 2019 when he left the program to join the law firm of Greenblott & O'Rourke PLLC. Now in general practice, he maintains a focus on indigent defense and is a member of the Superior Court's major crimes court-appointed list as well as the Federal Court's CJA panel.
Michael De La Pena has a B.A. in International relations from George Washington University and graduated from the FBI Academy. He served as an FBI Special Agent for 30 years until his retirement in 2019. In that capacity, De La Pena became a certified FBI Hostage Negotiator, Undercover Operative and Polygraph Examiner. De la Pena's polygraph training was conducted at the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute. In his 16 years of polygraph service, De La Pena conducted approximately 3,000 exams, across the United States, Central and South America and Iraq. De La Pena has been a featured speaker on polygraph cases and concepts at the American Polygraph Association and other polygraph groups, including in Singapore and the Ukraine, at the invitation of those governments. De La Pena is the author of The Coyote Wars, The Last Coyote and Coyote Rising, FBI suspense novels, also known as the Coyote Wars trilogy (with approval from the FBI). He currently works as a polygraph examiner for ORTSEC LLC, a Tampa based security company. He resides in Massachusetts.
Mary Price is General Counsel of FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums). She directs the FAMM Litigation Project and advocates for reform of federal sentencing and corrections law and policy before Congress, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of Justice. Ms. Price was a founder of Clemency Project 2014, serving on its Steering, Screening and Resource committees. She is a member of and Special Advisor to the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section, is a member of its Sentencing Committee, serves on the ABA’s Sentencing Standards Task Force, and was a member of the Task Force on the Reform of Federal Sentencing for Economic Crimes. Previously, she served on the Practitioners’ Advisory Group to the United States Sentencing Commission. She is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and serves on its First Step Implementation Task Force. Ms. Price is a founder of the Compassionate Release Clearinghouse, a joint project of FAMM, NACDL, and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. She was honored in 2019 by NACDL with its Champion of Justice Restoration of Rights Award for her work on clemency and compassionate release. Prior to joining FAMM, Ms. Price was associated with the law firm of Feldesman, Tucker, Leifer, Fidell & Bank, LLP where she handled appeals of courts martial and conducted administrative advocacy on behalf of U.S. service members.
2:30-3:45 Dispositional Advocacy in Juvenile Cases: Why Probation Shouldn’t be the Default. Presented by Pam Jones, Shea Sennett and Morgan Taggart-Hampton.
Pamela Jones is a Staff Attorney with New Hampshire Public Defender (NHPD) in their Nashua Office. She has been with the NHPD since 2008. Pamela represents both adults and juveniles in court but has focused her practice on juvenile representation in delinquency court and juvenile issues as well as handling Miller cases. As part of Pamela’s focus on the area of juvenile defense she conducts new lawyer training specific to juvenile law and juvenile-specific topics. She also provides case assistance and support to attorneys on youth cases throughout New Hampshire. Pamela is the Co-Director of NJDC’s New England Juvenile Defender Center and is a certified JTIP Trainer.
Shea Sennett has been a Staff Attorney with the New Hampshire Public Defender in their Nashua office since 2015. Shea carries a mixed caseload of adult, juvenile delinquency, and CHINS cases. Shea co-facilitates the training of new lawyers within the New Hampshire Public Defender with respect to juvenile practice. Shea has assisted in training contract counsel in New Hampshire on juvenile practice in New Hampshire, helped develop and plan regional trainings on juvenile law, and presented at the National Juvenile Defender Center's annual Summit in 2019. Shea is a member of the New England Juvenile Defender Center board. Prior to practicing law, Shea taught 9th grade algebra. Shea earned his B.A. in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross and his J.D. from the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
Morgan Taggart-Hampton is an attorney with the New Hamsphire Public Defender in its Keene office and serves on the board of the New England Juvenile Defender Center.
3:45-4:30 - The NHACDL annual meeting will be held, which will include on-line voting for the 2020 Board of Directors (via Zoom polling) and presentation of this year's Champion of Justice.