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
