The document announces the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Spring Seminar to take place from April 30 to May 2, 2015 at the Sea Palms Resort on Saint Simons Island, Georgia. It provides registration information and fees for members and non-members. The seminar will offer 11 hours of CLE credit including 1 hour each of professionalism and ethics. The agenda lists speakers and presentation topics covering various issues relating to forensic evidence, computer forensics, digital evidence, and defending criminal cases involving technology.

1. THE GEORGIAASSOCIATION
of CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS
Bernard Brody & Lawrence Zimmerman
GACDL’s Spring Seminar
April 30-May 2, 2015
Sea Palms Resort
Saint Simons Island, GA
To register online, visit www.gacdl.org
GACDL P.O. BOX 29653 Atlanta, GA 30359
Name:
Bar Number: Phone:
City E-mail
Please choose one option:
___ $330 I am a regular, contributing, substantial,
life (since 2005), or associate member and I need
CLE___$260 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 (check or cash only for this option)
___ $250 I am a full-time federal, state, or county
employed public defender in the _______________
Circuit and I need CLE. Every attorney in our office is
a 2015 GACDL member. _____$180 Same, but I do not
need CLE. (Note: If all PDs in circuit are not members
please pay regular member rate if you are a member ,and
pay the non-member rate if you are a non-member. PD
rate applies to full-time government employed PDs only.)
___ $600 I am not a member of GACDL.
If you need to pay dues to become a member:
___ Add $170 to the seminar price above ___Add $115 to
pay PD dues (These dues expire 30 November 2015.)
To book your hotel rooms, please call: 1-800-841-6268
Please log in as a member at www.gacdl.org to register online.
(Log in directions under “help”). If you register online and do not complete
the payment process, and do not show for the seminar, you will be billed.
If you register by mail using this form, 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 April 28. Paid registrants will
receive materials in advance. 11 CLE hours (applied for) 1 professionalism
hour, 1 ethics hour, 6 trial practice hours. No cancellations after April 1,
2015. The GACDL office is closed the day before seminars.
We do not accept phone registrations the day before or during events.
www.gacdl.org Questions? Call 404-248-1777
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2. Thursday April 30, 2015
Noon Seminar check-in. Walk-in registration, add $20
12:55-1:00 PM GACDL President Sam Dennis and Program
Directors Bernard Brody and Lawrence
Zimmerman Welcome
1:00-2:00 Ashleigh Merchant GettingAccess to and
Using Forensic Evidence onAppeal
2:00-3:00 Honorable Robert Leonard Ethical
Considerations With the Use of Forensic
Evidence
3:00-3:15 BREAK
3:15-4:15 KeithAdams The Use of Forensic Experts
for the Defense (Professionalism)
4:15-5:15 GrayAmick New and Future
Developments in DNAEvidence
5:30 Cocktail Party at Sea Palms Resort
Sponsored by Free At Last Bail Bonds
Friday May 1, 2015
8:40-8:45AM Program Directors Greeting
8:45-9:45 William Gallagher Electronic Evidence–
Finding it, Obtaining it, and Getting it
Admitted
9:45-10:00 BREAK Sponsored by Lakeview Health
10:00-11:00 Giovanni Masucci Understanding the
Impact of Digital Evidence on a Case
11:00-Noon Jim Persinger Defending Child
Pornography Charges and Other
Computer Based Offenses
Noon-12:30 Giovanni Masucci Live Demo: Recovering
Data From Computers and Devices
Saturday May 2, 2015
8:40-8:45AM Program Directors Greeting
8:45-9:45 Bernard Brody What Lawyers Need to
KnowAbout Computer Forensics
9:45-10:45 Jill Travis Legislative Update
10:45-11:00 BREAK
11:00-Noon Bruce Harvey Ballistics and Crime Scene
Evidence
12:00-1:00 ChrisAdams Arson, Junk Science
1:00 Seminar adjourns. GACDL Board Meeting
The GACDL Fall Seminar will be held
November 7 & 8, 2014
ChrisAdams is a criminal defense lawyer in Charleston, South
Carolina. Before entering private practice in 2007, he spent fifteen
years as a public defender and non-profit lawyer. He was the found-
ing Director of the Georgia Capital Defender Office. During his four
years at the helm, the Capital Defender resolved 40 cases without a
single client being sentenced to death. He graduated from George-
town Law and received his undergraduate degree from West Georgia
College. Chris teaches at the National Criminal Defense College
(NCDC), and has taught as an adjunct law professor at Georgia State,
Emory, and the Charleston School of Law.
GrayAmick leads a forensic DNA laboratory at The Richland
County Sheriff’s Department where he is presently employed. He
evaluates all methods used by the laboratory and proposes new
or modified analytical procedures to be used by examiners. He
also oversees all technical problem solving of analytical methods,
training, quality assurance, and proficiency testing. He has testi-
fied as an expert in forensic serology and STR DNA (the current
DNA method employed throughout the US and Europe) analysis
approximately 80 times.
William Gallagher is a Partner atArenstein and Gallagher in
Cincinnati, Ohio. His practice is limited to criminal law litigation in
state and federal courts. He is a past member of the Ohio Sentencing
Commission, the Hamilton County Criminal Justice and Policy Com-
mission, and the Hamilton County Public Defender Commission.
Bill is one of the original founders of the Ohio Innocence Project
which has now freed 14 men and women from Ohio prisons. In
addition to leadership positions with local, state and national defense
lawyer organizations, Bill has been an adjunct professor at DePaul
and the University of Cincinnati law schools.
Giovanni Masucci is the President and Sr. Forensic Examiner
at National Digital Forensics, Inc. (NATLDF). He is a Certified Fo-
rensic Examiner with more than 12 years in the industry. Giovanni is
experienced, trained and certified in all types of digital data recovery,
including recovery of digital evidence from crime scenes. He has
extensive knowledge of computers, operating systems, software
applications, and storage media. Giovanni presents to Federal, State
and Local law enforcement, in addition to government agencies, law
firms professional associations, and academic institutions across the
United States and Internationally.
Ashleigh Merchant is a partner at the Merchant Law Firm
in Marietta, GAwhere she specializes in criminal appellate and
post-conviction practice.Recently,Ashleigh was featured in the 2014
and 2015 Georgia Super Lawyers®
Rising Stars edition. She was also
recognized in 2013 by the Fulton County Daily Report as one of their
“On the Rise” top lawyers in Georgia under the age of 40. Georgia
Trend Magazine has recognizedAshleigh as one of Georgia’s “Legal
Elite” for years 2010 through 2014.She is admitted to practice in all
of Georgia's courts, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District
of Georgia, the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Eleventh Circuit and
the Supreme Court of the United States.
Clockwise from top left:
Chris Adams, William Gallagher, Ashleigh Merchant,
Jim Persinger, Gray Amick, and Giovanni Masucci