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  • Spring 2025 Seminar Materials

    Seminar Agenda
    Presenter Bios
    Partial Credit Form
    Seminar Survey
    4CCA/SUPREME COURT UPDATES
    Litigating the Second Amendment
    Bureau of Prisons: Real Consequences of Sentencing Decision
    Understanding & Troubleshooting the First Step Act's Earned Time Credits (ETC)
    Understanding and Troubleshooting the First Step Act's Earned Time Credits
    First Step Act Earned Time Credits 18 § 3632
    First Step Act Earned Time Credits TC Relevant Statuses
    USSC First Step Act EBRR Program & Productive Activities

  • Fall 2025 Seminar Materials

    Seminar Agenda
    Presenter Bios
    Partial Credit Form
    Seminar Survey
    eVoucher NCED
    National Litigation Support - How can we help?
    Challenging Drug Predicates: ACCA, Section 851 Enhancements, Career Offender & more
    Ethics Presentation
    NCLAP - Medicating Away Someone Else's Crazy
    How To Win A Selective Enforcement Claim: A case example from VA
    Government Breaches of Plea Agreements
    Fourth Circuit Updates

  • Spring 2024 Seminar Materials

    Seminar Agenda
    Presenter Bios
    Raise the Age Expunction: Shave months and even years off your client's sentence
    4CCA/SUPREME COURT UPDATES
    U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Updates
    Commission Update
    USSC Statistical Information Packet
    USSC Selected Commission Website Resources
    USSC Case Law Update |Fourth Circuit
    Identifying and Litigating 4th Amendment Issues in the District Court
    Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Defense Practice
    The use of Artificial Intelligence in preparation of documents filed before the court
    Comments on the proposed rule change to Fifth Circuit Rule 32.4 Form 6
    Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
    Proposed Fifth Circuit Amendment to 5th CIR. R. 32.2
    Park v. Kim 91 F.4th 610 (2024)

  • Fall 2024 Seminar Materials

    Seminar Agenda
    Presenter Bios
    Partial Credit Form
    Seminar Survey
    Climbing the Discovery Mountain
    Climbing the Discovery Mountain: What Criminal Defense Attorneys should know
    Best Practices from the Clerk's Office
    Artificial Intelligence and the Law
    Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Ethical Dystopia or Utopia?
    Federal Rules of Evidence
    Supreme Court & Fourth Circuit Updates
    SCOTUS and CA4 Cases
    Representing Transgender Clients
    Federal Rules of Evidence

  • Spring 2023 Seminar Materials

    Seminar Agenda
    Presenter Bios
    Prosecutorial Misconduct and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
    Sentencing Data for Defenders
    Your Steps in 3 Steps: Geofence, Warrants and Location History
    Trauma Informed Practice Skills
    Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire
    4CCA/SUPREME COURT UPDATES

  • Fall 2023 Seminar Materials

    Seminar Agenda
    Presenter Bios
    Integrating Mitigation
    Are You Stuck In The Waiting Place?
    eVoucher Presentation
    eVoucher Presentation - Crafting Detailed Time Narratives
    4CCA/SUPREME COURT UPDATES
    HOPE Court/DRUG Court Awareness
    Crimes of Violence in the Fourth Circuit
    Ethics
    Misunderstanding Lawyers Ethics by Freedman and Smith
    Towards a Philosophy or Theory of the Legal Profession.... by Harry Cohen
    Strickland v. Washington
    Garza v. Idaho
    Flowers v. Mississippi
    McCoy v. Louisiana
    Missouri v. Frye
    Padilla v. Kentucky
    Porter v. McCollum
    In re Olson
    Dueling Sovereigns
    Dueling Sovereigns - Version for Winning Strategies 2023
    Relevant statutes and other helpful materials on custody issues
    Motion for Release Pending Sentencing
    Motion to Revoke Release Order
    Program Statement 5880.28 excerpt
    Release Order
    Revocation Order
    US v Evans

  • Fall 2022 Seminar Materials

    Seminar Agenda
    Presenter Bios
    Discovering the Government's Discovery
    CJA Panel Attorney Software Discounts
    Common File Name Extensions in Windows
    Common Litigation Support Terms
    Initial Discovery Assessment Checklist
    Recommended E-Discovery Practices for Federal Criminal Justice Act Cases
    Justice Manual - Issues Related to Discovery, Trials and Other Proceedings
    Criminal E-Discovery Pocket Guide for Judges
    The Practice of Everyday Self Care for Legal Professionals
    Supreme Court Update Fall 2022
    The Ethics of The Telework Lawyer
    Best Practices to Ensure Voucher Payment Tips and Tricks
    Fourth Circuit Updates Fall 2022

  • Spring 2020 Seminar Materials

    Seminar Agenda
    Presenter Bios
    Effective use of Court Room Technology
    Court Room Technology - Greenville, NC
    Court Room Technology - New Bern, NC
    Court Room Technology - Raleigh, NC
    Effective Use of Court Room Technology -EDNC
    Fighting Illegal Re-Entry
    Fighting Illegal Re-entry Prosecutions with Motion to Suppress
    Santos Portillo Opening Brief
    Santos Portillo Govt. Response Brief
    Santos Portillo Reply Brief
    Statutory and Fact-Based Strategies for PreTrial Release
    Release Me! Fighting The Culture of Detention with Law and Facts
    Busting Bond Myths and Winning PreTrial Release (Siegler)
    Competency Issues in Federal Criminal Cases
    Competency Issues in Federal Criminal Cases
    Boone Motion for Release
    Sell v US
    Washington v Harper
    Wayda Opinion Affirming
    Woodyard MTD

  • Fall 2019 Seminar Materials

    There Are No Degrees of Honesty-Ethic Issues
    There Are No Degrees of Honesty-Ethic Issues
    There Are No Degrees of Honesty-Ethic Issues
    eVoucher and Case Budgeting
    Police Interrogations
    Psychological Coersion and False Confessions
    Police-Induced Confessions: Risk Factors and Recommendations
    False Confessions: Causes, Consequences and Implications
    Managing High Volume of Electronically Stored Information
    The First Step Act
    Thinking Outside the Box: Sentencing Memos
    Writing Persuasive Sentencing Memos
    Sentencing Memo Strategies
    Sentencing Memorandum Interview Topics Checklist
    RELEAE ME: Fighting the Culture of Detention with Law and Facts
    EDNC Federal Grand Jury Practice for Defense Attorneys
    Expanding Advocacy for Pretrial Release

  • Spring 2019 Seminar Materials

    Emerging Appellate Issues: What the Criminal Defense Practitioner needs to know
    Making the Most of your Moment: A Media Coaching Workshop
    Federal Criminal Justice Reform during the Trump Era
    Federal Bureau of Prisons: Compassionate Release/Reduction in Sentence: Procedures for Implementation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 3582
    Compassionate Release Basics for Federal Defenders

  • Spring 2018 Seminar Materials

    Using Social Sciences at Sentencing
    Procedures for Witness Vouchers & Reimbursements Information and Forms
    Recent Fourth Amendment Cases - Issues & Opportunities
    Litigation Strategies in Opiod Cases:
    Guidance Regarding Use of Capital Punishment in Drug-Related Prosecutions - Attorney General Memo
    Litigation Strategies in Opiod Overdose Cases
    Post-mortem clinical pharmacology
    A PEACEful Guide to Crimes of Violence
    Supreme Court & Fourth Circuit Updates:
    Crimes of Violence
    Fourth Amendment

  • Fall 2018 Seminar Materials

    Digital Forensics in Child Exploitation/Pornography Cases
    Making & Responding to Objections at Trial
    NC Rules of Professional Conduct & USDC EDNC Local Rules
    Fact-Busting Your Case and Brainstorming
    Fact-Busting Your Case and Brainstorming
    Making Your Case through Effective Direct Examination
    Cross Examination
    Ethics and Mentally Challenged Clients
    NC Rules of Professional Conduct Relevant to Representing the Mentally Ill
    Ethical Considerations When Representing Mentally Ill Clients
    Daubert Comes to North Carolina
    Crimes of Violence in the Fourth Circuit

  • Spring 2017 Seminar Materials

    Appellate 101 for non-Appellate Lawyers
    Guarding Miranda and Waivers Rancheros
    Illegal Re-Entry Cases
    Partial Credit Certification Form
    Spring 2017 Seminar Survey
    Title III Wire Taps

  • Fall 2017 Seminar Materials

    Litigating With An Eye Towards the Supreme Court
    Cell Phone Location Evidence
    Story Fundamentals:
    The Art of Sentencing Advocacy
    The Master of Storytelling
    Theories, and Themes Demonstrating of the Truth
    The STAR Reentry Court Program
    Solitary Confinement and Supermax Cases
    Representing Mentally III Clients:
    Selected Mental Health Cases
    Selected Statutes
    Some Aspects of the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984
    NC Rules of Professional Conduct Relevant to Representing the Mentally Ill
    General LAP Brochure
    Lawyer Assistance Program: How I almost became a Lawyer who...
    Confidentiality is the Cornerstone
    Lawyer Assistance Program: Signs of Impairment
    What's All the Buzz About ABA Study
    Using Expert Services:
    Sample Engagement Letter
    Use of Expert Services
    Using Service Providers

  • Fall 2016 Seminar Materials

    Ammunition for Firearms Defenses
    IAC Survival Guide
    False Confessions - Causes, Consequences, Implications for Reform
    License to Lie - Exposing Corruption in the DOJ
    Selected CJA Resources

  • Spring 2016 Seminar Materials

    Asset Forfeiture_Abrams_Tarlton presented_1_0.pdf
    Challenging Expert at Trial
    Evidence: Heresay & Confrontation
    STAR Program
    The Prisoners We Have Taken
    What USPO's do to help pre-revocation

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