Northern District of Florida CJA Panel Training Information

Panel Training Videos

Copies of all of the videos used in our panel training are available for viewing. In most instances there is a copy of each video in Gainesville, Pensacola and Tallahassee. Panel members are welcome to come to one of our offices to view the videos. Panel members may also make arrangements to borrow a video for a few days.

Panel Training Video List, Updated 1/19/12 (40kb)

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January 2012 - Defending Those Who Defend Us - Considerations in Defending Veterans

Particularly with the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we sometimes have clients who are veterans. This month’s video will help you identify key considerations in representing them, particularly those who suffer from service-connected Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury. The speaker, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Christian Capece, will also provide tips on how to maximize the impact of a client’s honorable military service and offer assistance in understanding the client’s service record and its potential for securing a better sentence.

Christian Capece served as Judge Advocate in the United States Marines in Okinawa, Japan, and Quantico, Virginia from 2000-2004. He has also been a law clerk for a United States District Judge in New York, worked for a New York law firm, and has been an assistant federal public defender in Charleston, West Virginia, since 2007.

Materials:	January 2012 Handout.pdf(3.61mb)
	January 2012 Additional Handout Military_Service_5H1-11_Departures_Booker_Variances.pdf (106kb)

PanamaCity - January 17, 2012 - Federal Courthouse
Gainesville - January 18, 2012 - Public Defenders Office
Pensacola  - January 25, 2012 - Federal Courthouse
Tallahassee - January 26 , 2012 - Federal Courthouse

February 2012 - Special Considerations in Representing Non-Citizens After Padilla

In Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473, 1482 (2010), the Supreme Court placed upon defense counsel the responsibility of accurately advising the non-citizen about the immigration consequences of a guilty plea. That means, of course, that all of us must have some basic information about immigration law. In this month’s presentation, Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis of the National Immigration Justice Center offers some help. In her presentation that we recorded last June at the National Seminar for Federal Defenders, she discusses some of the key facts to consider when representing a non-citizen, what amounts to a conviction under immigration law, the major consequences of convictions for immigrants, crimes of “moral turpitude,” “aggravated felonies,” and eligibility for relief under immigration law.

The National Immigrant Justice Center is located in Chicago. The organization provides legal services to immigrants and advocates for immigrants through policy reform, impact litigation, and public education. Ms. Wolfe-Roubatis is the Detention Project Supervising Attorney for the Center and has been with the Center since 2007. She is a 2007 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.

PanamaCity - TBA - Federal Courthouse
Gainesville - TBA - Public Defenders Office
Pensacola  - TBA - Federal Courthouse
Tallahassee - TBA - Federal Courthouse

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