Sister Helen Prejean speaks at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco.
Hosted by Temple Emanu-El.
Co-sponsored by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and Rosen, Bien, Galvan & Grunfeld LLP.
Followed by a book signing by Sister Helen Prejean. Sister Helen’s books will be available for sale.
Video of Sister Helen Prejean speaking at the event:
Video invitation from Jeff Adachi:
The San Francisco Public Defender is proud to present its 2013 Justice Summit
Gideon at 50: The Road to Equal Justice
Cost: This event is free but registration is required. Register at sfjusticesummit.com
Keynote Speaker: Karen Houppert, author of Chasing Gideon, the Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice.
Panel I: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice
Panel II: Forced Treatment and Constitutional Rights: Can They Coexist?
Panel III: The Price of Liberty: Reforming the Bail System
Panelists and moderators
Co-sponsored by Keker & Van Nest, Farella, Braun & Martel, Morrison & Foerster LLP, O’Brien & Associates, and Bar Association of San Francisco. 4.25 MCLE units earned.
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Please fill out the Trial College registration here if you’re interested in attending.
San Francisco, CA — Improving the education, health and futures for more than 2,000 San Francisco families in the Fillmore and Western Addition will be the focus of the Mo’ MAGIC BBQ and Backpack Giveaway on Saturday, Aug. 11.
The annual back-to-school event will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ella Hutch Community Center, 1050 McAllister St. More than 1,200 backpacks full of school supplies will be distributed to kids from kindergarten to 12th grade. An onsite health fair coordinated by AfroSolo will provide screenings and resources, parent workshops will offer expert advice and families will enjoy a free community barbecue.
“We began this back-to-school event to provide kids in the Western Addition with the tools essential for school success,” said San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. “Today, we address not only academics, but health, parenting and community wellness as well.”
The celebration is put on by Mo’ MAGIC, a program initiated by the Public Defender’s Office in 2006. Mo’ MAGIC and its sister organization, Bayview MAGIC, each convene more than 100 community organizations and concerned citizens who work to reduce the number of kids who fall through social service gaps by efficiently coordinating opportunities, support and resources.
This year, Mo’ MAGIC has teamed up with Unite For Students, an all-volunteer group of graduate students based at the University of San Francisco’s Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good. Starting at 10 a.m., Unite For Students will hold eight half-hour workshops for parents and teachers at the event featuring experts and local community leaders, that will focus on breaking the “school-to-prison pipeline.”
“The school-to-prison pipeline describes the pattern of events that push a student out of the classroom and into the juvenile justice system, and eventually to incarceration as an adult,” said Mo’ MAGIC Director Sheryl Davis.
Workshop topics include restorative justice as an alternative to zero-tolerance discipline, courses for college admission, early college and financial aid counseling, policy change, truancy prevention and parental involvement.
Speakers at the event include San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Carlos Garcia and Board of Education Commissioners Sandra Fewer and Emily Murase.
The majority of backpacks for the event were donated by Convent & Stuart Hall.
“Mo’ MAGIC is grateful for the opportunity to partner with organizations like AfroSolo, Kaiser Permanente, St. Mary’s and Convent & Stuart Hall to offer fundamental resources that help support positive youth development,” Davis said. “On a national level the Children’s Defense Fund has long drawn attention to the need for access to health care and quality education to break the cradle to prison pipeline. I am happy that as a community we are working together to address the issue locally.”
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Justice on Trial: Gangs Neuroscience & Drug Reform is the title of the 2012 San Francisco Public Defender’s Justice Summit.
The summit will be held at the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, lower level (enter at 30 Grove Street.)
This event is free, but seating is limited. Register online and find out more at sfjusticesummit.com
9 a.m.: Registration
9:30 a.m.: Keynote Speaker: UCLA Professor Jorja Leap, author of Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me About Violence, Drugs, Love and Redemption.
10 a.m. Panel I: Jumped In: Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence
11:15 a.m. Panel II: The Brain on Trial: Is Free Will Truly Free?
12:30 p.m.: Lunch provided
1:30 p.m. Panel III: Drugs: From Felonies to Misdemeanors?
Panelists:
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Each year, the San Francisco Public Defender provides two trial college training opportunities to its attorneys and to members of the criminal defense bar. The event is not open to the public, law students, prosecutors, or law enforcement.
The office believes there is no better way to learn than by doing. As such, our trial colleges are designed to be informative and practical by providing participants with a combination of lectures and an opportunity to practice, on their feet, the skills and concepts that are being taught.
Participants will be able to practice openings for upcoming cases in small group settings and also receive feedback from these Masters of Openings and other experts in the area.
Thomas Mesereau Jr. acquitted pop legend Michael Jackson of fourteen charges of alleged conspiracy and child molestation. He has won many high stakes criminal, civil and administrative trials before judges and juries involving a wide-range of claims, including securities fraud, complex business disputes, health care fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy, murder, sexual assault and the death penalty. He is also recognized for his 25 years of free legal work for the poor and under-represented. He operates a free legal clinic in Los Angeles County and also represents one client on death row each year pro bono in Alabama or Mississippi. He attended law school at Hastings College.
Brian Waite is Chief Attorney of the Orange County Public Defender’s office. A frequent speaker for the CPDA, Brian has lectured on gang cases, jury selection and other aspects of trial preparation and strategy. “I was really impressed with Brian Waite. His presentation on opening statements and closing arguments was simply magical. This man had a gift.” http://publicdefenderdude.blogspot.com/2010/05/thinking-about-kyles-v-whitley.html
Registration is available here or by selecting the Register link in the event box above. Deadline for registration is Monday, May 16. Upon registration, checks should be made payable to San Francisco Office of the Public Defender and mailed to:
Larry Roberts
San Francisco Public Defender
555 7th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Price
$145 for public defenders and private defense attorneys in practice for less than three years.
$195 for other private defense attorneys.
Payment is by check only; payment by credit card is not possible. Be sure to indicate the name of the registrant on checks. Checks must be postmarked by Monday, May 16.
MCLE - 6 hours of MCLE will be provided.
The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office is proud to present the 2011 Justice Summit: Justice By The Book.
9:00 am: Registration
9:30 am: Panel I: By the Book: Authors on Criminal Justice
11:15 am: Panel II: The Ethics of Law Enforcement: Preventing the Abuse of Power
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: Panel III: From San Francisco to the High Court: The Future of the Death Penalty
Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender
George Gascon, San Francisco District Attorney
Greg Suhr, chief, San Francisco Police Department
John J. Osborn, author, The Paper Chase
Mary McDonagh Murphy (via Skype), author, Scout, Atticus and Boo
Sheldon Siegel, attorney & mystery novelist, Perfect Alibi
Paulette Frankl, author, Lust for Justice
Tony Serra, renowned defense attorney
John Burris, civil rights attorney
Stuart Hanlon, defense attorney and board member, Bar Association of San Francisco
Anne Irwin, deputy public defender
Pete Herley, former chief, Tiburon Police Department
JT Thompson, exonerated Death Row inmate
Jeanne Woodford, executive director of California Death Penalty Focus & former warden, San Quentin Prison
Natasha Minsker, death penalty policy director, ACLU
Julian Lopez-Morillas, actor, To Kill a Mockingbird
This event is free, but seating is limited, but registration is necessary. Sponsored by the Bar Association of San Francisco, Criminal Trial Lawyers Association of Northern California, and Farella, Braun + Martel, LLP.