The Georgia Associationof Criminal Defense Lawyers

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Brasstown Valley Resort Young Harris, GA

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Crafting a GREAT

Defense!GACDL FALL SEMINAR

November 4 & 5, 2016

To be sure that you have a seat, please register and pay online at www.gacdl.org. If you register online, do not complete the payment process, and then do not show up for the seminar, GACDL will bill you. Please call us if you need help, or have made

an error in online registration: 404-248-1777. No cancellations after October 4. Substitutions are welcome. Preregistration closes on Wednesday November 2nd at 5:00 PM, we send out materials to pre-paid attendees that evening, and then the

office closes immediately afterwards for travel to the seminar venue. Didn’t preregister in time? After November 2, the voicemail will tell callers

whether or not we can accept walk-in registrations (we typically can). To receive your speaker materials, please be sure that your email address is correct

online at www.gacdl.org. Search for yourself using our “Lawyer Search.” If you do not see an email with your materials after we send them out the night of the 2nd, please check your junk mail folder, emails from us sometimes end up there. Attendees who

do not pre-pay in time will receive materials by email during or after the seminar. Same for walk-ins.

If you wish to register by mail, please send this completed panel to: GACDL P.O. Box 29653 Atlanta, GA 30359. If you mail your registration to us during the same week as the seminar, we will not receive it in time—even if you are mailing it from Atlanta.

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___ $360 I am a regular, contributing, substantial, associate, PD, or life member (2005 or later) and I need CLE. ___$290 Same and I do not need CLE.

___$0 I am a life (prior to 2005) or sustaining member and do not need CLE. ___$70 Same and I need CLE.

___ $280 I am a federal, state, or county employed public defender in the _______________ circuit and I need the CLE. Every attorney in our circuit is a 2016 GACDL member. ___$210 Same, except I do not need CLE. (Note: If all PDs in your office are not members, please pay regular member rate if you are a member. The special PD rates only applies to full time government employed PDs in offices where every person is a GACDL member.)

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The seminar prices above are MEMBER PRICES. $650 is the non-member price (please register by phone only). Need to pay dues?

___$185 Regular dues. I still need to pay my 2016 dues in order to receive one of the member rates for this seminar, and I realize that these dues expire at the end of November 2016.

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This seminar offers 10 hours CLE including 1 hour ethics, 1 hour professionalism, and 8 hours trial practice (applied for). No CLE will be

authorized without registration, proper payment, and seminar check in. The GACDL office will be closed the day before the seminar for travel to the venue.

Questions? 404-248-1777

Jeff Brickman, seminar director (Atlanta), owns his own firm and specializes in state and federal criminal defense. Before entering private practice in 2005, Jeff served as an assistant district attorney in DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1989 to 1997, during which time he exclusively prosecuted major felonies, including high-profile homicide, rape, armed robbery, child sexual and physical abuse, and fraud cases. For two of those years, he served as the chief of the Crimes Against Children Unit. From 1997 to 2004, he served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, where he investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal crimes including fraud, drug trafficking, child pornography, and

cyber-crime cases. In 2004, Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed Jeff as DeKalb County District Attorney. In this role, he was responsible for supervising the investigation and prosecution of over 6,000 felony cases. In 2005, Jeff entered private practice specializing in state and federal criminal defense. Over his 25 year career, Jeff has dedicated a substantial amount of his time to the training and teaching of law enforcement, prosecutors, and defense attorneys.

Mike Hawkins (Atlanta) credits much of his success in defending Georgia DUI cases to his experience as a Georgia DUI prosecutor and his commitment to out-preparing the prosecution. Mike is a frequent lecturer at seminars for DUI lawyers in Georgia and across the nation. His method of cross-examination of police officers has been described as as much science as it is art.�His rise to teaching DUI Defense on a national level actually began before he was a defense lawyer. In 1994, just two years out of law school, Mike found himself in the middle of the controversy over whether the courts could suspend a person’s driver’s license before they were convicted of the DUI charge. As a DUI prosecutor, he helped develop

the argument that the Supreme Court of Georgia ultimately used to decide the issue. Mike left prosecution to enter private practice in 1996, it was not long before he was asked to teach defense lawyers courtroom techniques that can win DUI cases.

Bob Keller (Dawsonville) was appointed to the State Board of Pardons and Parole by Governor Sonny Perdue on January 3, 2007. Bob served as Executive Counsel of the Attorneys Council of Georgia. He is the former chairman of that organization. Before joining the Prosecuting Attorneys Council, he served as both Assistant District Attorney and District Attorney of Clayton County. He also maintained a private practice from 1974-1977. Bob served as a member of the Georgia Board of Public Safety, the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System, the Georgia Code Revision Plan Committee and the Commission to Assess Crime Laboratory Needs into the 21st Century.

He served as Vice-Chair of the Governor's Commission on Certainty in Sentencing. Bob earned a bachelor's degree from Birmingham Southern College and a law degree from Emory Law School. Bob brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding of the criminal justice system, and his reputation and credibility among the judiciary and prosecutors is highly admired.

Nicki Vaughan (Gainesville) is currently Chief Assistant Public Defender in charge of Juvenile Court representation in the Northeastern Judicial Circuit. She is Chairperson of the Child Protection and Advocacy Section of the State Bar, Chair of the Indigent Defense Committee, and serves on the Children and the Courts Committees. Nicki has served on the Board of Governors for ten years and has served on the Executive Committee of the State Bar for the past three years. She has been involved in child advocacy and juvenile justice issues for over forty years, having begun her career as a Child Protective Services Caseworker for Fulton County. Nicki is a founder, former co-director, and Lifetime Board Member of the Georgia CASA Program and was

instrumental in the establishment of CHRIS Kids, Inc. In 1982, she received the Governor’s Volunteer Award for her child advocacy efforts. She was a stakeholder in the JUST GA Coali-tion’s successful effort to re-write the Juvenile Code, which took effect January 1, 2014. Nicki is a former Vice-President of the GACDL, and previously served as Chairperson of the Indigent Defense Committee. She is currently Chairperson of the GACDL Juvenile Law Committee.

Don Samuel (Atlanta) has practiced with Garland, Samuel & Loeb since 1982. His practice is devoted primarily to criminal defense and appeals in both the state and federal courts. He has appeared in federal courts throughout the country and participated in one United States Supreme Court case, State of Georgia v. Scott Fitz Randolph. He has an active trial practice, having tried over 100 felony cases in the state and federal trial courts in matters as diverse as tax evasion, money laundering, mail fraud, murder, and public corruption cases. He teamed up with his long-time partner, Ed Garland, in the defense of Ray Lewis, Jamal Lewis, Dany Heatley, and Rapper

T.I. Don is ranked among the Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyers, has been listed in Best Lawyers since 1991, and was recognized in Georgia Trend magazine's Legal Elite for his work in criminal defense law. He is a past President of the GACDL, is a member of the NACDL, was elected in 1999 to membership in the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, and was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2000.

Nelson Tyrone (Atlanta) currently dovotes his practice to Plantiff’s Personal Injury work. Before opening that practice, Nelson was associated with nationally-recognized law firms in both the areas of Criminal Defense and Plaintiff’s Catastrophic Injury work. He practiced for a number of years with the pre-eminent criminal defense firm of Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C., located in Atlanta, Georgia. During this period of his career, Nelson defended clients in a wide variety of major felony and white collar cases in both state and federal court. Some of the more notable cases that he was involved in were the defense of Ray Lewis, running back

for the Baltimore Ravens, as well as acting defense counsel for the Gold Club located in Atlanta, Georgia, against prosecution by the United States Government.

Ashleigh Merchant (Marietta) has always limited her practice to defending individuals that have been charged with committing crimes. She is a strong client advocate who firmly believes in protecting the rights of the criminally accused, and protecting the innocent from a miscarriage of justice. Ashleigh is the co-chairperson for the Legislative Committee of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is very active in the Cobb County Bar Association. In 2014, she was named a Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star. Ashleigh is admitted to practice in all of Georgia's state courts, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the Georgia

Supreme Court. While defending a client recently, Ashleigh discovered that the judge and the prosecutor had been conducting conversations without defense counsel present. She works tirelessly to stop these types of unfair activities in our state.

Craig Gillen (Atlanta) has achieved sustained success in federal courts throughout the country, first as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia, then as the Deputy Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra, and subsequently as a criminal defense attorney. In January 1990, Craig joined the Office of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra in Washington, D.C. Craig served as the Deputy Independent Counsel and supervised all of the investigations of the continuing investigation. He was the lead counsel for the following Iran/Contra cases: (1)U.S. v. Elliott Abrams (former Assistant Secretary

of State for Latin American Affairs); (2)U.S. v. Alan Fiers (former CIA Chief for Central America; (3) the indictment of U.S. v. Casper Weinberger (former Secretary of Defense); and the multi-week trial in U.S. v. Claire George (former CIA Chief of Worldwide Operations). In 1993, following the Iran/Contra presidential pardons, Craig started his own private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. As a criminal defense attorney, Craig is well known for his success in defending his clients. He has not guilty verdicts at trial for government agents, businessmen, and professionals, and he obtained dismissals for businesses and corporate officers.

Friday 4 November 201611:30-Noon Sign in begins for pre-registered folks! Come early!

Noon: Walk in registrations begins (add $20)

12:30-12:55 PM How to Get all of Your Seminar information - Keith Fitzgerald GACDL App Sponsored by Crawford, Shaney & Rasco, Inc. - Investigator Cathy Crawford

12:55-1:00 Welcome GACDL President Bob Rubin and Program Director Jeff Brickman

1:00-2:00 Drafting Your DUI Motions and Challenging Blood and Breath Tests After the Williams and Birchfield Decisions - Mike Hawkins

2:00-3:00 Ethics: Tapping Into the Judge’s Point of View - Judge Brian Rickman

3:00-3:15 BREAK courtesy of Atticus

3:15-4:15 Strange Brew: Tips on Dealing with the Parole Board - Abbi Taylor and Bob Keller

4:15-4:20 Inspirational 5! - TBA

4:20-5:20 Case (of beer?) Law Update - Don Samuel

5:20-5:25 When An Amicus Brief is Brewing - Elizabeth Brandenburg

5:25-5:35 Defense Against the Dark Arts - a word from GACDL

5:35-5:45 A Word from Your Party Sponsor - Free At Last Bail Bonds

5:45-6:00 GACDL President’s Awards - Bob Rubin

6:00-7:30 Cocktail Party - Drinks and appetizers in the lobby courtesy of Free at Last Bail Bonds

8:30-10:30 PM Trivia in Brassies

Saturday 5 November 20168:45-9:45 AM Developing a Powerful Theme: Sometimes You

Have to Go Against the Grain - Nelson Tyrone

9:45-10:00 BREAK

10:00-11:00 The Bitter Truth: How to Be a Better Lawyer (Professionalism) - Judge Ronnie Joe Lane

11:00-Noon Science and Shaken Baby Syndrome - Dr. Waney Squier

Noon-12:10 Indigent Defense Award - Claudia Saari

12:10-1:15 LUNCH on your own. (GACDL Board Meets)

1:15-2:15 Juvenile Law: Ale You Need to Know - Nicki Vaughan

2:15-2:20 Inspirational 5! - TBA

2:20-2:35 BREAK

2:35-3:35 Discovery: Blowing the Head off of the State’s Case - Ashleigh Merchant

3:35-4:45 When a High Gravity Case is Brewing - Craig Gillen

Please join us for the GACDL Technology Seminar at Georgia State University’s College of Law on December 2 & 3, 2016