NATIONAL FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS SEMINAR
August 22 - 25, 2002
The Renaissance Hotel
Nashville, Tennessee
AGENDA
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Thursday August 22
5:00 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. Welcome & Announcements
Merle Freedman, Mark E. Olive
5:10 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. How the Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Supports Your Work
5:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Primer for the Conference
Denise I. Young
5:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Confronting Bias
Prof. Sheri L. Johnson
6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. "Stories:" Using Stroytelling to Persuade the Fact-Finder
Prof. Anthony G. Amsterdam
Friday August 23
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Understanding and Making the Most Out of Ring and Atkins
Prof. Anthony G. Amsterdam, Timothy K. Ford
10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. The Best and Worst of the Rest of the 2002 Term Court
Prof. Anthony G. Amsterdam, George Kendall
11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
A) "When the State Lies: Discovering and Exposing
State Misconduct*
Tom Dunn, Denise LeBoeuf, Russ Stetler
B) 2254(d) & (e): a semi-coherent theory of their interaction interact
John Blume, Keir Weyble
C) Ring discussion group: Brainstorming the Next Generation of
Ring Issues
Ruth Friedman, Denise Young
D) The State Post-Conviction Stage: Preparing the Case
for Federal Court
Kelley J. Henry, Nicholas Trenticosta
E) Mounting a Clemency Campaign
Richard Burr, Rob Lee, Brian Mendelsohn
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. World Litigation: The Present and Future of International
Law Issues in Domestic and International Tribunals as
Well as the Court of Public Opinion
Timothy Ford, Clive Stafford-Smith
2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
A) When the State Lies: discovering and Exposing State Misconduct*
Denny LeBeouf, Russ Stetler
B) Understanding and attacking DNA evidence in post-conviction litigation
Susan Herrero
C) Atkins Discussion Group: Brainstorming the Next-Generation of Issues
Tom Dunn, Michelle Brace
D) The Federal Pleading Stage: Preparing the petition; claim selection,
pleading, the traverse
Joe Schiesinger, Michael Pescetta
E) New Thoughts on Juror Misconduct
Ruth Friedman
3:45 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. BREAK
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. What We Learn from Wrongful Convictions
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Working with Victims in Capital Post-Conviction Cases
Dick Burr, Tammy Krause
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. List Serves: Uses and Abuses
Mark Olive
9:00 p.m. until Benefit for the Equal Justice Initiative: 3rd and Lindsley
Saturday August 24
9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Dealing with Affirmative Defenses: Statute of Limitations,
Procedural Default, Non-Exhaustion and Retroactivity
Michael Laurence, Keir Weyble
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10: 45 a.m. - noon Concurrent Sessions
A) An Introduction to Mental Health Issues
in Post-Conviction Litigation*
Richard Burr
B) The fact development stage: successful discovery, motions
for evidentiary hearings, preparing for and presenting
testimony at the hearing
Paul Bottei, Robert McGlasson
C) Opting Out of Opting In: New Developments
Shelley J. Sandusky, Denise Young
D) Junk Science: Identifying and Attacking Junk
Barry Scheck, Russell Stetler
E) AEDPA: Question and Answer Session
Janice Bergmann, John Blume
12:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Winning Issues
Mark Olive, Robert McGlasson
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH
2:00 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. Emerging Mental Health Trends in Capital Post-Conviction Litigation
Dr. Kathy Wayland
3:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
A) Conflict and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims in
in the Post-Bell and Mickens World*
John Blume, Monica Foster, William Redick
B) Competency Claims - Proving and Litigating Competency
to Stand Trial, Competency to Proceed, Competency to be
Executed
Sean O'Brien
C) Pleading, Proving and Litigating the Fact of Mental
Retardation in the Post-Atkins World
Tom Dunn, Pamela Blume Leonard, Russ Steetler
D) Using Other Litigation Techniques to Advance Your
Cause: §1983 actions and other vehicles
Clive Stafford-Smith
E) Mental Health Issues Discussion Group
Kelly Branham, Dr. Kathy Wayland
4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. BREAK
4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Making the most of Successors, 60(b) motions, Recalling the Mandate,
Original Petitions and Other "Extraordinary" Measures
Mark Olive, James S. Liebman
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Circuit/State Breakouts
Sunday August 12
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The Current State, and the Pros and Cons of
Recent Empirical Studies of the Capital Punishment
John Blume, James S. Liebman
10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
A) Protecting Facts and Law in Capital
Post-Conviction Proceedings Proceedings*
Mark Olive
B) The Appellate State: Developing and Implementing a
Persuasive Appellate and Certiorari Strategy
Robert Dunham, James Liebman
C) Prison Conditions Litigation and Other Ways to Improve
your Client's Mental State
David Fathi, Julie Hall
D) Daubert and Mental Health Issues: Government Attacks
on Defense Mental Health Evidence and Challenging
Government Mental Health Evidence
Richard Burr, Lisa Greenman
E) Handling a Capital §2255
Margaret O'Donnell
11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Staying and/or Getting Out of the Black Hole of Litigation
PLEASE NOTE: An asterisk (*) indicates that the session is designed for participants without substantial capital post-conviction experience, participants litigating their first case, or those preparing for their first evidentiary hearing.