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Center on Wrongful Convictions CLE: Criminal Litigation in the Age of Information: How Much is Enough?
Criminal Litigation in the Age of Information: How Much is Enough?
Panel 1: Public Information - Uses and Abuses
Topics covered: Use of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by criminal defendants and to gather data on police misconduct; fact finding by appellate courts; permissible use of public information in legal briefs.
Panelists:
Matt Topic, Loevy & Loevy
Deborah Bone, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila
Jamie Kalven, Invisible Institute/Citizens Police Data Project
Laura Weiler, Office of the State Appellate Defender
Panel 2: Discovery from the Government - Policies and Practices
Topics covered: Newly discovered Chicago police street files and their impact on a civil rights lawsuit; nationwide survey of prosecutorial discovery rules; proposal for expansion of prosecutorial discovery in Illinois; process for proposing and amending Illinois Supreme Court Rules.
Panelists:
Karen Daniel, Center on Wrongful Convictions
Nathson Fields, exoneree and former death row inmate
Candace Gorman, civil rights attorney
Alan Neff, formerly of City of Chicago Department of Law
This program has been approved for 1 general CLE credit and is pending approval for 1 professional responsibility CLE credit in the State of Illinois.
*CLE Materials will be available on the CWC website closer to the event. http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/events/a/index.html
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LocationNorthwestern Pritzker School of Law, Thorne Auditorium (View)
375 E Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60611
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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