2009 Justice Summit
PROGRAM
9:30 a.m. Check-in and on-site registration
10:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
- Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender
- Bart Sheela, President, California Public Defenders Association
- Russ Roeca, President, the Bar Association of San Francisco
10:10 a.m. Keynote address
- Hon. Judge Thelton Henderson
10:30 a.m. Panel 1: Defending the Public and the Constitution.
Moderators: Ted Cassman, President, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, Former Superior Court Judge.
- Barbara Babcock, Professor, Stanford Law School
- Richard Goemann, Director, Defender Legal Services, National Legal Aid and Defender Association
- Michael Judge, Chief Public Defender, Los Angeles County
- Cookie Ridolfi, Director, Northern California Innocence Project
- Kimberly Thomas Rapp, Director of Law and Policy, Equal Justice Society
- Barry Krisberg, Director, National Council on Crime and Delinquency
- Michael Hersek, State Public Defender
- Christine Voss, Supervising Public Defender, Riverside County
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Panel 2: Holistic Community-Oriented Criminal Defense. (1.0 hour of MCLE credit)
Guest speaker: Melanca Clark, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University Law School
- Errol Wishom, San Francisco Mental Health Board member and Behavioral Health Court graduate
- Jennifer Johnson, Deputy Public Defender, Behavioral Health Court
- Stephen Fields, Program Coordinator, Asian American Recovery Services, and former Public Defender’s Office Reentry Unit client
- Steven Gayle, Deputy Public Defender
- Shannon Bennett, Social Worker, Public Defender’s Office Reentry Unit
- Yvette Mari Robles, Director, BMAGIC
2:15 p.m. Closing