FINDING SOLUTIONS TO OPEN QUESTIONS IN CRIMINAL TRIALS & APPEALS

Event Start:
06/02/2016 2:00 PM
Event End:
06/02/2016 5:00 PM

Thursday, June 2, 2016 from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Program Fee:  $70
Location: Social Law Library, John Adams Courthouse

CPCS approved for 3 hours of credit from the Adult Criminal Trial, Youth Advocacy Division, and Post-Conviction panels.


Randy S. Chapman, Esq., Chapman & Chapman, PC
Hon. J. Elizabeth Cremens, District Court
Hon. Frank M. Gaziano, Superior Court
Hon. Geraldine Hines, Supreme Judicial Court, Program Co-Chair
Ellyn Lazar-Moore, Deputy Director, Appeals Unit, Worcester DA’s Office
Lynn S. Muster, Senior Staff Attorney, Massachusetts Appeals Court, Program Co-Chair

A justice from the Supreme Judicial Court will join judges of the Superior Court and the District Court, a Senior Staff Attorney from the Appeals Court and experienced counsel to examine a series of “open questions” in criminal trials and appeals. The program is designed to actively engage the audience in dialogue throughout the discussion.

While the nuts-and-bolts of cases will surely be covered, the panel will primarily identify more nuanced, unsettled issues and examine possible approaches, arguments and trial tactics in such topics as:  

  • Preservation of Error and Standards of Review.
  • Murder Trial Issues
  • Examination of the forthcoming Commonwealth v. Mayotte (first complaint rule) and Commonwealth v. Oliveira (inventory searches)
  • Medical Marijuana
  • Cell Phone Searches and Seizures
  • and more….
Online registration is encouraged. For questions on group discounts, special billing, program content, out-of-state CLE credits, and general CLE information call Andrew Hyland at 617-226-1361. Space is limited. Registrations accepted in order of receipt. Registration fees are non-refundable. Registrants for this program acknowledge that during the program their photographic or videographic images may be incidentally taken; registrants agree that the submission of their registrations for this program constitutes their written consent to the Social Law Library’s use of any such image in print and online materials solely for promotion of the Library’s noncommercial CLE seminars and other educational events and activities.
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