Prosecutorial Oversight:  A National Dialogue in the Wake of Connick v. Thompson

Join us for the first stop of a national tour to address the issue of prosecutorial misconduct  in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Connick v. Thompson, which granted  prosecutors almost complete immunity for their misconduct.  Panelists from all aspects of  the criminal justice system will discuss possible policy solutions for preventing misconduct  and making prosecutors more accountable.   
When Feb 06, 2012
from 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM
Where New York, NY
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Speakers include

 

Maddy deLone, Executive Director of the Innocence Project, who will moderate the panel

John Thompson, whose $14 million civil award for the prosecutorial misconduct that caused him to spend 14 years on death row was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, Founder and Director of Resurrection After Exoneration and Voices of Innocence;

Ellen Yaroshefsky, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law at Cardozo School of Law;

Hon. Richard Buchter, New York Supreme Court Judge and former Queens Assistant District Attorney;

Hon. Elisa Koenderman, New York Supreme Court Judge and former Bronx Assistant District Attorney;

Sarah Jo Hamilton, Principal at Scalise & Hamilton, LLP, and a former trial counsel and first deputy chief counsel to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for New York’s First Judicial Department; and

Ross E. Firsenbaum and Shauna Friedman,  Senior Associates at Wilmer Hale, who represented Arthur Ashe Courage Award Winner Dewey Bozella, who was wrongly convicted of murder due to police and prosecutorial misconduct and was exonerated after serving 26 years in  New York prisons.

Seating is limited.  Pease RSVP by February 1 to info@prosecutorialoversight.org

Location: Jacob Burns Moot Court Room
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

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