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INVESTIGATOR TRAINING - BONUS TECHNOLOGY DAY!


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AGENDA 

NDIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE, NEW ORLEANS

Hilton New Orleans Riverside
2 Poydras Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
APRIL 23-25, 2014

 

 Wednesday, April 23, 2014

7:00 am – 8:15 am

Pre-Conference Registration & Coffee

Versailles Ballroom, 3rd floor

 

8:15 am – 12:15 pm

NDIA Presents Technology Day

Pre-Conference Workshop Part 1

Versailles Ballroom, 3rd floor

“INVESTIGATING CYBER CRIMES Part 1”

  • Anthony Pullano, LPI, CCDI, CCFE, CHFI, CDFI, CCFI, Criminal Defense Training Council, Stuart, FL
     
    12:15 pm – 1:45 pm LUNCH ON OWN
     
    1:45 pm – 5:45 pm
    NDIA Presents Technology Day Part 2
    Versailles Ballroom, 3rd floor
    “INVESTIGATING CYBER CRIMES PART 2”
  • Anthony Pullano, LPI, CCDI, CCFE, CHFI, CDFI, CCFI, Criminal Defense Training Council, Stuart, FL
     
    6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
    GENERAL REGISTRATION, Hospitality
    Location TBA
     
    Thursday, April 24, 2014
    8:00 am – 8:30 am
    Coffee Bar
    Versailles Pre-Function, 3rd Floor
     
    8:30 am – 8:45 am
    Welcome & Opening Remarks
    Versailles Ballroom, 3rd Floor

  • Marvin Jeffcoat, NDIA President
  • Introduction of the 2014 Melissa Kupferberg Scholarship Recipients
     
    8:45 am – 10:15 am
    GENERAL SESSION
    Versailles Ballroom, 3rd floor
    “Injustice, the Law and Hope”

  • Anne-Marie Moyes, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville, TN
  • Ndume Olatushani, Served 28 years for a crime he didn't commit. And the woman he loves helped set him free.
     Course Description: Ndume Olatushani, sentenced to death for a Memphis murder in 1985, walked out of prison in 2012 a free man.  Olatushani and a team of lawyers fought for years to uncover evidence of his wrongful conviction.  One of his lawyers was Anne-Marie Moyes, the Founder’s Medalist from Vanderbilt Law School who became his strongest advocate and conducted an investigation that uncovered new evidence of his innocence. 
     
    10:30 am – 11:45 am
    BREAKOUTS
     
    SESSION I
    Melrose, 3rd floor
    “Analyzing Financial Records Part 1”
  • Norm Williams, Principal, Williams Financial Investigations, LLC, Lexington, KY, past Special Agent, Criminal Investigation Division, Internal Revenue Service, US Treasury
    Course Description:  Approaches to analyzing financial documents; location, identification and organization of records.
     
    SESSION II
    Rosedown, 3rd floor
    “Introduction to the Private Investigator Business”

  • Frank Murphy, Investigator, Frank A. Murphy Investigations, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

  • Sean Mulholland, President, Mulholland Investigations, Jacksonville, FL
    Course Description: Essential knowledge and procedures you need to know when starting your own private investigator firm, from licensing, training, state requirements, equipment, and software, to sales, networking, advertising and finding your specialty.  Learn how to run the business side of your investigative company.
     
    SESSION III
    Versailles, 3rd floor
    “Mitigation Specialist”

  • Donna Murray, Mitigation Specialist, Capital Mitigation Consultants, Cape Coral, FL
  • Cynthia O’Shea, Attorney, Capital Mitigation Consultants, Cape Coral, FL

Course Description:  The Mitigation Specialist bears the primary responsibility for providing trial lawyers with information, professional analysis, expert testimony and evidence to present to a judge or jury in considering the disposition of a significant criminal case.  They also provide assistance for both capital and non-capital trial level cases as well as provide assistance on capital and non-capital cases throughout their appeal process.

Learn why mitigation investigations and report evidence are key parts of any good defense strategy; how to assist attorneys in locating evidence that will mitigate or lessen the punishment imposed on clients found guilty at trial and the different ranges of evidence that can be presented (from the client would function well on probation, to reasons why a death sentence would not be appropriate for a client.)  Also discussed will be how to provide the proper supportive research and documented history of the defendant for your defender and preparation and presentation of mitigation evidence in the penalty phase of a Capital case.

11:45 am – 1:15 pm LUNCH ON OWN


1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

BREAKOUTS

 

SESSION I

Melrose, 3rd floor

“Competency to Stand Trial: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity”    

  • Katherine Mattes, Attorney, Professor of Practice and Interim Director, Criminal Law Clinic, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, LA
    Course Description: The intersection of criminal justice and mental illness:  Treatment of mentally ill criminal defendants who are incompetent to stand trial.
     
    This presentation will have an emphasis on mental competency to stand trial and the defense of not guilty by reason of insanity.
     
    SESSION II
    Rosedown, 3rd floor
    “Juvenile Reform: Interviewing Juveniles”

  • Derwyn Bunton, Chief Investigator, Office of the Public Defender, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, LA
    Course Description: Reasons for treating juveniles differently and a discussion of strategies to use in interviewing adolescent defendants, witnesses and victims.
     
    SESSION III
    Versailles, 3rd floor
    “Report Writing Part 1”
  • Larry Carlson, Investigator, Washoe County Public Defender, Reno, NV
    Course Description:
     
    2:45 pm – 4:00 pm
    BREAKOUTS
     
    SESSION I
    Versailles, 3rd floor
    “Report Writing Part 2:  Testimony and Obtaining Statements”
  • Paul Carroll, Owner, Paul Carroll Consulting and Training, Homosassa Springs, FL
    Course Description: How to incorporate testimony and statements into your report.
     
    SESSION II
    Rosedown, 3rd floor
    “Blood Stain Pattern Analysis”   
  • J.D. Thomas, Forensic Consulting Services, New Port Richey, FL
    Course Description: Specific case study and group discussion on the concept of blood stain analysis in relation to the investigation of crimes scenes where blood evidence is present and how blood evidence can either confirm or refute proper analysis of that evidence.
     
    SESSION III
    Melrose, 3rd floor
    “Cyber Crime, Child Enticement and Internet Safety”
  • Jim Persinger, CFE, LPI, Owner, Chief Executive Officer, PMI Investigations, Atlanta, GA
    Course Description:  Computer Based Sex Crimes and Defending Child Enticement and Child Pornography Cases: the emerging threat of offenders using the Internet or other online technology to sexually exploit children.
     
    4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
    BREAKOUTS
     
    SESSION I
    Versailles, 3rd floor
    “Facial Recognition Technology” or “Investigator Discourse Analysis”
  • TBA 
    Course Description: 
     
    SESSION II
    Melrose, 3rd floor
    “How to Look for an Expert Witness”   
  • Cynthia O’Shea, Attorney, Capital Mitigation Consultants, Cape Coral, FL 

Course Description: In defense litigation, expert witness testimony is a necessary and critical part of the litigation strategy. Expert witnesses can offer testimony to address important questions or facts that are crucial to liability issues. They are also commonly used when it comes to calculating damages. Because expert witness testimony can be such an important factor, there can be much at stake for litigators in the process of finding and selecting an expert. Clients have also recognized the importance of choosing the expert witness best suited for the case, and the selection process has increasingly become a joint endeavor between outside litigators and their in-house counterparts.

Therefore, the defense team should be informed about how to best prepare to find and select expert witnesses. The importance experts can play in litigation, and some of the important issues the defense team should consider when searching for the most effective expert, a decision that ultimately can have a significant impact on settlement negotiations and trial results.

SESSION III

Rosedown, 3rd floor

"Drugs:  What are the Behavior Indicators"

  • Heather Holmes, Psy.D. Forensic Psychologist, Psychological Consultants, Wilton Manors, FL
    Course Description: 
     
    5:30 pm General Business Meeting
    Versailles, 3rd floor
     
    6:30 pm President’s Reception, Investigator of the Year Awards
    Location TBA
     
    Friday, April 25, 2014
     
    8:00-8:40 am
    Coffee Bar
    Versailles Pre-Function Area, 3rd Floor
     
    8:45 – 10:15 am
    GENERAL SESSION
    Versailles, 3rd floor
    “The Cheshire Triple Homicide: Defending High Profile Cases”

  • Thomas Ullman, Chief Public Defender, Office of the Public Defender, New Haven Judicial District, New Haven, CT
  • Matthew Whalen, Investigator, Office of the Public Defender, New Haven Judicial District, New Haven, CT
    Course Description:  Cheshire, CT murder case involving two parolees who broke into a home during the middle of the night, tied up and tortured the family for several hours before killing three family members and setting the house on fire.  The lone surviving family member of the home invasion Dr. William Petit, was badly beaten with a bat and left in the basement.  Mr. Ullman and his investigator on the case, Matt Whalen, will discuss this death penalty case where, as Ullman put it referring to their client, “Everybody in the world hates this guy.”
     
    10:15 am – 11:30 am
    BREAKOUTS
     
    SESSION I
    Versailles, 3rd floor
    “Skip Tracing/Witness Location”

  • George F. Steimel, Criminal and Civil Litigation Investigator, Baton Rouge, LA
    Course Description: 
     
    SESSION II
    Rosedown, 3rd floor
    “Analyzing Financial Records Part 2”

  • Norm Williams, Principal, Williams Financial Investigations, LLC, Lexington, KY, past Special Agent, Criminal Investigation Division, Internal Revenue Service, US Treasury
    Course Description:    Approaches to analyzing financial documents; location, identification and organization of records.
     
    SESSION III
    Melrose, 3rd floor
    “Safety in the Field-Part 1”
  • Dave Young, Investigator, Office of the Public Defender, Paterson, NJ
  • Dwight Singleton, Investigator, Chatham County Public Defender, Savannah, GA

Course Description: 

1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

BREAKOUTS

 

SESSION I

Versailles, 3rd floor

“Sexual Offenders and Mental Deficiency”

  • Heather Holmes, Psy.D, Forensic Psychologist, Psychological Consultants, Wilton Manors, FL
    Course Description: 
     
    SESSION II
    Rosedown, 3rd floor
    “Witnesses and the Importance of Relationship Building”

  • Anne-Marie Moyes, Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville, TN
    Course Description:
     
    SESSION III
    Melrose, 3rd floor
    “Safety in the Field-Part 2”
  • Dave Young, Investigator, Investigator, Office of the Public Defender, Paterson, NJ
  • Dwight Singleton, Investigator, Chatham County Public Defender, Savannah, GA
    Course Description:
     
     
    2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
    BREAKOUTS
     
     
    SESSION I
    Melrose, 3rd floor
    “Investigating Child Molestation Cases”

  • Christopher Whitney, Esq.,  Law Offices of Christopher Whitney, PA, Fort Myers, FL
    Course Description:

 

SESSION II

Versailles, 3rd floor

“DNA Analysis”

  • George Schiro, MS, F-ABC, Consulting Forensic Scientist, Forensic Science Resources, Cade, LA
    Course Description:

SESSION III

Melrose, 3rd floor

“Capital Investigations”

  • TBA
    Course Description:
     
    4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
    GENERAL SESSION
     
    Versailles, 3rd floor
    “Neuroscience and the Law: How and If Neuroscience Should Inform Our
    Laws and How We Treat Criminals”
  • TBA

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