THE GEORGIA ASSOCIATIONof CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS Bernard Brody & Lawrence Zimmerman

GACDL’s Spring Seminar April 30-May 2, 2015

Sea Palms ResortSaint 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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Thursday April 30, 2015Noon 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 Getting Access to and Using Forensic Evidence on Appeal

2:00-3:00 Honorable Robert Leonard Ethical Considerations With the Use of Forensic Evidence

3:00-3:15 BREAK 3:15-4:15 Keith Adams The Use of Forensic Experts

for the Defense (Professionalism)4:15-5:15 Gray Amick New and Future

Developments in DNA Evidence5:30 Cocktail Party at Sea Palms Resort

Sponsored by Free At Last Bail Bonds

Friday May 1, 20158:40-8:45 AM 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, 20158:40-8:45 AM Program Directors Greeting 8:45-9:45 Bernard Brody What Lawyers Need to

Know About Computer Forensics9:45-10:45 Jill Travis Legislative Update 10:45-11:00 BREAK 11:00-Noon Bruce Harvey Ballistics and Crime Scene

Evidence12:00-1:00 Chris Adams Arson, Junk Science1:00 Seminar adjourns. GACDL Board Meeting

The GACDL Fall Seminar will be held

November 7 & 8, 2014

Chris Adams 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.

Gray Amick 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 at Arenstein 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, GA where 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 recognized Ashleigh 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 of Appeals 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