Racism and Capital Punishment – a Deadly Combination
What You Will Learn
- This CLE program will examine the essays in the 2021 published, A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays, referencing severe mental illness, ineffective lawyering, prosecutorial misconduct, and wrongful convictions. Yet the thread that runs consistently through each of those topics is racial discrimination. Featured speaker and author, Marc Bookman, will address how to recognize racial discrimination, litigate it, and prevail over it.
What You Will Learn
- This CLE program will examine the essays in the 2021 published, A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays, referencing severe mental illness, ineffective lawyering, prosecutorial misconduct, and wrongful convictions. Yet the thread that runs consistently through each of those topics is racial discrimination. Featured speaker and author, Marc Bookman, will address how to recognize racial discrimination, litigate it, and prevail over it.
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Price
$80
for CLE/CJE Credit - MEMBER (Philadelphia Bar Association)
$100
for CLE/CJE Credit - NON-MEMBER
$35
for NON-CLE Credit/ Law Student - Members (Materials Included)
$45
for NON-CLE Credit/ Law Student NON-Member
90 minutes
Date Published
August 17, 2021
Publisher
Philadelphia Bar Association
Subjects
Criminal Law, Diversity
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Racism and Capital Punishment – a Deadly Combination
Program originally presented Tuesday, August 17, 2021
This CLE program will examine the essays in the published, A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays, referencing severe mental illness, ineffective lawyering, prosecutorial misconduct, and wrongful convictions. Yet the thread that runs consistently through each of those topics is racial discrimination. Featured speaker and author, Marc Bookman, will address how to recognize racial discrimination, litigate it, and prevail over it.
The presentation will additionally highlight and explore:
- Client Relations - short reading from the essay “Smoke”
- The importance of team diversity and cultural competency
- Overt Racism - "Racist and Proud (and a Judge)" and "The N-Word in the Jury Box" dealing with racist judges and jurors
- Ineffective Counsel - "A Descending Spiral" is an essay about lawyers who left three jurors on a jury involving a Black man who killed his white wife, and all three jurors expressed their opposition to mixed marriage
- Prosecutorial Misconduct - "Trials and Errors" and "When a Kid Kills his Abuser, Who’s the Victim" addressing the issue of police and prosecutors hiding evidence in capital cases
Featured Speaker:
Marc Bookman, Esq.
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Atlantic Center for Capital Representation (ACCR)
Philadelphia
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Program Titles and Supporting Materials
This program contains the following components:
Media Files
Downloadable Files
Credit
If applicable, you may obtain credit in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously for this program (see pending/approved list below). Where applicable, credit will be only awarded to a paid registrant completing all the requirements of the program as determined by the selected accreditation authority.
How to Attend
Join the self-paced program from your office, home, or hotel room using a computer and high speed internet connection. You may start and stop the program at your convenience, continue where you left off, and review supporting materials as often as you like. Please note: Internet Explorer is no longer a supported browser. We recommend using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Safari for best results.
Technical Requirements
You may access this course on a computer or mobile device with high speed internet (iPhones require iOS 10 or higher). Recommended browsers are Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
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