Mark George to teach on US Death Penalty Training Course
26/09/2007
Mark George from Garden Court North will be speaking at the US death penalty training session organised jointly by Reprieve and Amicus on 6th October 2007
The aim of the course is to introduce the subject to student lawyers and others interested in issues around the death penalty in the USA and in particular to provide practical training and advice to those who intend to do an internship in one of the death penalty States.
The full course begins on Friday evening 5th October and runs until Sunday 7th October. The programme for Saturday 6th October includes sessions on the US Federal Constitution and the practice of the US Supreme Court. Mark has spoken on similar training course over the past seven years and will be speaking about a number of aspects of death penalty trial procedure from arrest, through pre-trial motions, issues such as ineffective assistance of counsel to jury selection and how the jury reaches a verdict of death. A further speaker will discuss mitigation and appeals.
The course begins at 9.30 am and will be at Freshfields Solicitors in Bouverie Street, London. There is also a second weekend on the practical side of death penalty work- investigations, witness interview, juror interviews etc... This takes place on 27th and 28th October.
Full details of the course can be obtained from Amicus . Anyone who wants to book on to the course should contact Margot Ravenscroft- Amicus Executive Officer at admin@amicus-alj.org
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Quick links
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> Past event: 9/10/06 Mark George to lecture for Amicus in Manchester
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