THIS SEMINAR IS NOW FULL.  If you would like to be placed on the waitlist, please contact Terrica Redfield Ganzy at tganzy@schr.org. 

Death penalty voir dire is one of the most difficult yet crucial skills for lawyers to master. 

Join NACDL, the Southern Center for Human Rights, and the University of Colorado School of Law for this unique hands-on training program.  Participants will work with David Wymore, the originator of this method of capital jury selection, and a faculty of masters of capital voir dire for two and a half packed days to learn, refine and master the art and science of death penalty jury selection.    

The program teaches the Colorado Method of capital voir dire by using a combination of lecture, demonstration, and small group exercises involving real jurors.  This proven method has nearly emptied Colorado’s death row and has saved capital defendants across the country.  Students will learn the core Supreme Court jurisprudence and how to use it to make the judge let you ask what you need to ask.

Students will learn and then practice in small groups how to get venire persons to share their views about the death penalty and life imprisonment by stripping away extraneous issues and circumstances; identify and rate “killers” and potential “life-givers”; build and make challenges for cause and protect other jurors from cause challenges; teach life-givers how to get out of the jury room with their vote intact; and teach killers to respect the opinions of life-giving jurors.

The seminar will take place on May 17-19, 2012.  This will be the only national Capital Voir Dire Training in 2012.  Space is limited to 60 capital defense attorneys.  Please apply early - slots will be filled on a first-come first-served basis for lawyers preparing a capital case for trial.  Click here for an application.  If you do not have a pending death penalty trial but are interested in attending the seminar, you may submit an application and we will admit you as space permits.  When you apply online, please refer to the application form and indicate your qualifications for admission to this seminar in the comments section of the online registration form.  Also, please note that you may go ahead and pay the registration fee online, and if your application is not approved, your registration fee will be promptly refunded to you. 

The seminar will be held at the University of Colorado Law School, Wolf Law Building, 2450 Kittredge Loop Road, Boulder, Colorado 80309.  Click here for a tentative agenda.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Millennium Harvest House Boulder.  The hotel is located at 1345 Twenty-Eighth Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302-6899, walking distance from the Wolf Law Building.  Shuttle service from the hotel to the seminar location will be provided. 

Phone: 303-443-3850
Group Rate: $129/night, ask for the Southern Center for Human Rights group
Rate cut off date: April 16, 2012

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