1. State Bar of Georgia
in Atlanta
SEATS ARE LIMITED!
Register NOW online: www.gacdl.org
GACDL, Letitia Delan, and Luana Walsh
present:
Everything
BUT
The Kitchen Sink
A Criminal Defense CLE Seminar
January 22 & 23, 2016
TheGeorgiaAssociation
ofCriminalDefenseLawyers
P.O.Box29653
Atlanta,GA30359
GACDL P.O. BOX 29653 Atlanta, GA 30359
Name:
Bar Number: Phone:
City: E-mail:
Please choose one option:
___ $350 I am a regular, contributing, substantial, associate,
public defender, new attorney or life (since 2005) member
and I need CLE___$280 Same and I do not need CLE
___$0 I am a life member prior to 2005, or a sustaining
member and do not need CLE ___$70 Same and I need CLE
___ $266 I am a full-time federal, state, or county employed
public defender in the _______________ Circuit and I need
the CLE. Every attorney in our circuit is a 2016 GACDL
member. ___$196 Same, but I do not need CLE. (Note: If all
PDs in your circuit are not members, please pay the regular
member rate if you are a member, or pay the non-member
rate if you are a non-member. PD rates apply to full-time
government employed PDs in circuits where every attorney is
a member.)
___ $650 I am not a member of GACDL
In addition to the seminar fees, I also need to pay my 2016
dues___$185 Regular dues ___$115 PD dues (these dues
expire 30 November, 2016) Other dues levels are online at
www.gacdl.org
___I will attend the live telecast in Savannah
Please log in as a member at www.gacdl.org to register
online (log in directions under “help”) or return payment
with this form. If you register online and do not complete
the payment process you will be billed. Please do not send
cash. No CLE will be authorized without this form, proper
payment, and seminar check in. Materials will be emailed
after office hours on January 20th. 10 CLE Hours (applied
for) 1 professionalism hour, 1 ethics hour, 8 trial practice
hours. No cancellations after 31 December 2015.
The GACDL office is closed the day before seminars.
Questions? Call 404-248-1777

2. Everything “Criminal Defense”
BUT...the Kitchen Sink!
Friday 22 January 2016
11:30 am Check in and Late Registration
(walk-ins, space permitting, please add $20)
12:55-1:00 pm Welcome - GACDL President Sam Dennis
and Program Directors Letitia Delan and
Luana Walsh
1:00-2:00 Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire:
Ways to Avoid Federal Consequences from
State Charges - Natasha Silas and Wes Bryant
2:00-2:05 Inspirational 5!
2:05-3:05 Getting out of the Oven: Strategies for
Responding to 404b Evidence -
Professor Paul Milich
3:05-3:15 GACDL Strike Force Awards -
Colette Resnik Steel
3:15-3:30 BREAK
3:30-4:30 My Client Has Mental Health Issues, Now
What? Goal-Oriented Defense in Mental
Health Cases - Annie Deets McHugh, Dr. Allison
Paganelli and Dr. James DeGroot
4:30-5:30 Doing the Dishes: Maximizing Your Client’s
Chances at Obtaining a Favorable Parole
Decision – It Isn’t Getting Any Easier -
Jake Arbes
5:30-5:40 GACDL President’s Awards - Sam Dennis
5:40-5:50 GACDL Membership Meeting - President
Sam Dennis and Incoming President Bob Rubin
5:50-6:00 A Word from Your Party Sponsor -
Free at Last Bail Bonds
6:00-8:00 Cocktail Party -
Courtesy of Free At Last Bail Bonds
Saturday 23 January 2016
8:55-9:00 am Welcome - GACDL President Bob Rubin,
Letitia Delan and Luana Walsh
9:00-10:00 Preheating the Oven: Voir Dire -
Katie Elwart, Bryan Hobbs, and Steven Phillips
10:00-11:00 Setting the Table: Putting Your Case in Motions
- Professor Suparna Malempati
11:00-11:15 G. Terry Jackson Friend of the Constitution
Award - Pete Donaldson and Mark O’Mara
11:15-11:30 BREAK
11:30-12:30 Mixing in the Spices: Identifying andAddressing
Collateral Issues - Brenda Smeeton and Liz Taxel
12:30-1:30 LUNCH courtesy of GACDL
(Board of Directors Meeting)
1:30-2:30 Table Etiquette: Ethically Responding To
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims -
Cindy Wang
2:30-2:35 Inspirational 5!
2:35-3:35 More Etiquette: Professionalism -
Jennifer Willmott
3:35-4:35 Panel on the Atlanta Public Schools
Cheating Scandal - Keith Adams, Teresa
Mann, Bob Rubin and Sandford Wallack
Jake Arbeshas handled hundreds of post-conviction cases involving
state parole, sentence reduction, appeals, habeas corpus, prison
designations and transfers. He has assisted clients charged with serious
state and federal criminal offenses for over 30 years. Jake has served
as the Chairman of the Criminal Law Section of theAtlanta Bar
Association, Vice-President of the GACDL, and was a founding member
of the Georgia Innocence Project. Jake has been repeatedly recognized
as a Super Lawyer in Georgia Super Lawyers Magazine, one of the
Top Lawyers in Georgia byAtlanta Magazine, and named a Legal Elite
Lawyer by Georgia Trend Magazine. He has written part of a book on
criminal appeals in Georgia and has given many speeches on various
post-conviction topics.
Wes Bryantis a trial attorney in the Federal Defender Program where
he represents indigent individuals charged in the Northern District of
Georgia. Before becoming a federal defender, Wes was a senior trial
attorney in the Office of the Public Defender -Atlanta Judicial Circuit –
for almost 12 years. Wes has tried all types of felony cases ranging from
theft and armed robbery, rape and murder, and everything in between.
While a public defender in Fulton County, Wes was the chairperson
of the training committee. Wes attended GACDL’s Bill Daniel Trial
Advocacy Program in 2005 and thought it was the best CLE that he had
ever attended. Now Wes is on the faculty of the Bill Daniel Program.
Professor Suparna Malempaticurrently serves as anAssociate
Professor of Law atAtlanta’s John Marshall Law School where she
teaches courses in trial advocacy, evidence, criminal procedure, and
legal writing. Prior to joining the faculty in 2008, Professor Malempati
served for two years as lead counsel for the Office of the ChildAdvocate
Attorney in the Fulton County Juvenile Court, where she led a team of
lawyers and investigators representing children in abuse and neglect
proceedings. She is also an experienced trial attorney, having worked
in criminal defense for twelve years as anAssistant Public Defender
in Fulton County and in private practice. Throughout her career as a
trial lawyer, she successfully defended murders, sex crimes, and other
complex felony cases.
Professor Paul Milichis a Professor of Law at Georgia State
University, College of Law where he has taught Evidence,Advanced
Evidence, TrialAdvocacy, Contracts, and Legal History for the past
32 years. He also is the Director of theAdvocacy Program at Georgia
State. Professor Milich has written numerous law review articles and
has published a number of books including: GEORGIARULES OF
EVIDENCE, and COURTROOM HANDBOOK ON GEORGIA
EVIDENCE, both published by West. Professor Milich was the
Reporter for the Georgia State Bar Evidence Study Committee, which
successfully drafted and promoted a new set of evidence rules for
Georgia which went into effect January 1, 2013.
Jennifer Willmott graduated law school in 1995, and joined the
Maricopa County Public Defender’s Office in Phoenix, AZ. By 2001,
Jennifer was supervising and training newer trial attorneys. In 2006,
Jennifer entered private practice by joining Willmott & Associates,
PLC. As a trial attorney, she has defended thousands of cases from
misdemeanor DUI charge to homicides, including death penalty cases.
Jennifer has taught hundreds of attorneys the skills needed to succeed
in trial. Her most publicized case was her representation of defendant
Jodi Arias.
Dr. Paganelli Natasha Silas
Professor MilichWes Bryant
JakeArbesProfessor Malempati
Dr. Paganelli Natasha Silas
Wes Bryant
JakeArbes
Jennifer Willmott
Professor Malempati
Jennifer WillmottSandford WallackSandford Wallack
Professor Milich