1. The Georgia Association
of Criminal Defense Lawyers,
Brian Steel, and Colette Resnik Steel
present
CRIMINAL
DEFENSE FIT!
Successful Strategies So You
Can Go The Distance!
To be sure you have a seat, please register online at
www.gacdl.org. before November 5 at 5 PM.
You can check seating availability online at www.gacdl.org.
No cancellations after October 20. Substitutions are welcome.
Preregistration closes November 5 at 5:00 PM.
Speaker materials will be emailed to all pre-registered and pre-paid
attendees via the GACDL website on November 5 PM. Please be
sure that your email address is correct online at www.gacdl.org so
that you will receive your seminar materials. (Search for yourself
under “Lawyer Search.”) Attendees who do not prepay by the
preregistration deadline and seminar walk-ins
will receive materials by email during or after the seminar.
If you wish to register by mail, please send this completed panel to:
GACDL P.O. Box 29653 Atlanta, GA 30359 .
If you mail this form to us the same week as seminar,
it will not be received in time.
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This seminar offers 10 hours CLE including 1 hour ethics, 1 hour
professionalism, and 7 hours trial practice (applied for.)
No CLE will be authorized without registration, proper payment, and
seminar check in. If you register online, do not complete the payment
process, then do not show up for the seminar, you will be billed.
The GACDL office is closed the day before this seminar
for travel to the venue.
Questions? Call 404-248-1777
GACDL
FALL SEMINAR
November 7 & 8, 2014
Brasstown Valley Resort
Young Harris GA
For hotel reservations, or to be placed
on the hotel room waiting list, call
1-800-201-3205
TheGeorgiaAssociation
ofCriminalDefenseLawyers
P.O.Box29653Atlanta,GA30359
CRIMINAL
DEFENSE FIT!
Successful Strategies So You
Can Go The Distance!

2. Friday 7 November 2014
11:30 AM Sign in begins for pre-registered attendees
Noon: Walk in registration begins (add $20 to
prices shown)
12:55-1:00 PM Welcome GACDL President Sam Dennis
Program Directors Brian Steel and
Colette Resnik Steel
1:00-2:00 Warm Ups: Crime Scene and
Accident Reconstruction- Ross Gardner
and Sean Alexander
2:00-3:00 Heavy Lifting: Ballistics and Forensic
Analysis– Dr. Jacqueline Martin and
Chris Robinson
3:00-3:15 BREAK courtesy of Atlanta Custom Tailors
3:15-4:15 Aerobics: Preserving Error to set up
Successful Motions for New Trial and
Winning Appeals – Gerard Kleinrock
4:15-5:15 Mind and Body: Ethics –
Governor Roy Barnes
5:30 Cocktail Party – Drinks and appetizers
in the lobby
Saturday 8 November 2014
8:30-9:30 AM Stretching: Innovative Strategies to
Incorporate Mental Health Evidence –
Dr. Matthew Norman
9:30-9:45 BREAK courtesy of Investigator
Cathy Crawford
9:45-10:45 Cross Training: Clemency Projects –
Cynthia Roseberry
10:45-11:45 Sprints and Hurdles: Case Law Update –
Don Samuel
11:45 –Noon A Word from Your Sponsor –
GACDL President Sam Dennis
Noon-1:00 LUNCH on your own.
(GACDL Board to meet)
1:00-2:00 Cross Training: Mock Trials – Speaker TBA
2:00-3:00 Marathon Training so Exhaustion Does Not
Burn You Out: Post Conviction –
Sarah Gerwig-Moore
3:00-3:15 BREAK courtesy of A&AAll County
Monitoring Services
3:15-4:15 Cool Down: Professionalism – Sherry Boston
4:15 ADJOURN
Ross M. Gardner (Jonesboro) worked as a
felony criminal investigator for the United States
Army Criminal Investigation Command for
nearly twenty years. Mr. Gardner subsequently
served four years as the Chief of Police for Lake
City Georgia. He is now retired and active in
independent consulting, and an active instructor
throughout the United States in crime scene anal-
ysis, bloodstain pattern analysis and crime scene
investigation. Mr. Gardner is also author of the text Practical Crime
Scene Processing and Investigation.
Chris Robinson (Atlanta) is the president
and owner of his company Chris Robinson
Forensics. He was previously employed as
the Director of the Atlanta Police Department
Crime Lab and before that he worked as a
Firearms Examiner at the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation. In addition to being a Forensic
Consultant, Mr. Robinson is an instructor at
seminars for various groups across the United
States. Mr. Robinson has worked over 7000 cases and has testi-
fied approximately 600 times during his career.
Gerard Kleinrock (Decatur) is one of the
leading criminal appellate attorneys in Georgia.
He graduated from Northeastern University
School of Law in Boston in 1996. He first worked
for the Multi-County Public Defender (the first
iteration of the Georgia Capital Defender), and
since 1998 has worked for the DeKalb County
Public Defender. Mr. Kleinrock was a trial lawyer
for close to a decade before shifting to appeals. He
has always had a finger in the appellate pie, and eventually became
a full time appellate defender in 2005. Mr. Kleinrock handles all the
appeals for the DeKalb County Public Defender.
Governor Roy Barnes (Atlanta) For over
30 years, Gov. Barnes has tried civil and criminal
cases throughout Georgia and in neighboring
states. Gov. Barnes has appeared in more than 250
cases in the state and federal appellate courts.At
age 26, he was elected the youngest member of
the Georgia State Senate. Gov. Barnes also served
in the State House of Representatives for six
years. In 1998, he was elected to serve as the 80th
Governor of the State of Georgia. During his term, he concentrated
on education reform, health care reform, and remedies for urban
growth and sprawl.
Dr. Matthew Norman (Atlanta) is a general and forensic
psychiatrist in private practice and anAdjunctAssistant Professor
at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Norman received
his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of
Virginia and finished medical school at Mercer University School of
Medicine. He completed residency and forensic
fellowship training at Emory University School
of Medicine. In his private forensic practice,
Dr. Norman conducts evaluations for insanity,
competency to stand trial, and mitigation/ag-
gravation evaluations. He has conducted more
than 1,000 criminal psychiatric evaluations,
including 200 murder cases and over a dozen
capital cases.
GACDLPast President Cynthia
Roseberry (Washington D.C.) currently
serves as Project Manager for the Clemency
Project 2014, which is a partnership among the
NACDL, theABA, FamiliesAgainst Manda-
tory Minimums, and the Federal Community
and Public Defenders. Prior to being hired by
the Clemency Project, Ms. Roseberry served as
Executive Director of the Federal Defenders of
the Middle District of Georgia. She also practiced federal and state
criminal defense in Georgia for over ten years. She is a founding
board member of the Georgia Innocence Project.
GACDLPast President Don Samuel
(Atlanta) has practiced with Garland, Samuel
& Loeb since 1982. His practice is devoted
primarily to criminal defense and appeals in
both the state and federal courts. Mr. Samuel has
appeared in federal courts throughout the coun-
try, including the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Samuel has tried over 100 felony in matters
as diverse as tax evasion, money laundering,
mail fraud, murder, and public corruption cases. He joined with his
long-time partner, Ed Garland, in the defense of Ray Lewis, Jamal
Lewis, Dany Heatley, and Rapper T.I. Mr. Samuel is ranked among
the Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyers, has been listed in Best Law-
yers since 1991, and was recognized in Georgia Trend magazine's
Legal Elite for his work in criminal defense law. He was inducted
into theAmerican College of Trial Lawyers in 2000.
Sherry Boston (Decatur) was appointed
Solicitor-General of DeKalb County by Gover-
nor Sonny Perdue. Prior to her appointment, she
was the managing attorney of The Law Office
of Sherry Boston, LLC practicing in the area of
criminal defense as a leading attorney in the area
of alcohol and drug related offenses. Mrs. Bos-
ton also previously served as Municipal Court
Judge for the City of Dunwoody and as anAsso-
ciate Judge for DeKalb Magistrate Court. She has been a frequent
lecturer on DUI defense in the state of Georgia for the GACDL
and the ICLE, and across the country for both the NACDL and the
National College for DUI Defense. She has been recognized for the
past consecutive 5 years as anAtlanta Rising Star Super Lawyer
and as a member of Georgia Trend’s Legal Elite.