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Table of Contents
- Lesson 1 – Overview of the Juvenile Justice Process
- Lesson 2 – Role of Juvenile Defense Counsel
- Lesson 3 – Organization 101: Managing the Juvenile Caseload
- Lesson 4 – Adolescent Development
- Lesson 5 – Interviewing and Counseling the Youth Client
- Lesson 6 – Interviewing the Youth’s Collateral Contacts
- Lesson 8 – Dealing with Difference
- Lesson 9 – Arrest and Intake
- Lesson 10 – Challenging Probable Cause and Detention
- Lesson 11 – Interactions with Probation Officers, Prosecutors, Judges, and Parents
- Lesson 12 – Theory of the Case
- Lesson 13 – Investigation
- Lesson 14 – Pretrial Discovery Practice
- Lesson 15 – Competence to Stand Trial
- Lesson 16 – Guilty Pleas
- Lesson 17 – Challenging Transfer to Adult Court
- Lesson 18 – Principles of Motions Practice
- Lesson 19 – Fourth Amendment Challenges
- Lesson 20 – Challenging Juvenile Statements
- Lesson 21 – Challenging Identification Testimony
- Lesson 22 – Opening Statements
- Lesson 23 – Cross-Examination
- Lesson 24 – Direct Examination and the Defense Witness
- Lesson 25 – Use of Documents and Exhibits
- Lesson 26 – Impeachment
- Lesson 27 – Evidence and Objections
- Lesson 28 – Hearsay
- Lesson 29 – Experts
- Lesson 30 – Motion for Judgment of Acquittal/Directed Verdict
- Lesson 31- Closing Arguments
- Lesson 32 – Challenging Juvenile Sex Cases
- Lesson 33 – Drug Cases
- Lesson 34 – Immigration Consequences
- Lesson 35 – Disposition Advocacy
- Lesson 36 – Preserving the Record and Engaging in Appellate Advocacy
- Lesson 37 – Post-Disposition Advocacy
- Lesson 38 – Multi-Systemic Advocacy: Family, School, and State Agencies
- Lesson 39 – Advocacy in Special Education Cases
- Lesson 40 – Advocacy in School Discipline Cases
Lesson 1 – Overview of the Juvenile Justice Process
- Handout – Flow Chart
- Handout – Bibliography
- Handout – Terms Chart
- Supplement – Annotated Outline of Critical Stages and Key Decision Points in a Juvenile Case
- Supplement – Juvenile Justice Terminology Handout
Lesson 2 – Role of Juvenile Defense Counsel
- Handout – Role of Counsel Bibliography
- Handout – Summary of Key ABA Model Rules
- Handout – Forensic Exercise Fact Pattern
- Supplement – National Juvenile Defense Standards
- Supplement – Role Of Juvenile Defense Counsel in Delinquency Court
- Supplement – 10 Core Principles of Providing Quality Delinquency Representation
Lesson 3 – Organization 101: Managing the Juvenile Caseload
- Handout – Discovery Checklist
- Handout – Investigation Checklist
- Handout – Motions Checklist
- Handout – Sample Case File
- Handout – Sample Case List
- Handout – Sample Check-in / To-do List
- Handout – Sample Investigative Memo
- Handout – Sample Trial Memo
- Handout – Sample Trial Notebook
- Handout – Timeline of Effective Advocacy
- Supplement – Sample Case Outline
Lesson 4 – Adolescent Development
- Handout – Annotated Bibliography of Studies (updated May 2015)
- Handout – Case Bibliography
- Handout – Forensic Exercise 1
- Handout – Forensic Exercise 2
- Supplement – Alternative Disposition Report
- Supplement – Sample Disposition Memorandum
Lesson 5 – Interviewing and Counseling the Youth Client
- Handout – Forensic Exercises
- Handout – Sample Client Release of Information Form
- Handout – Sample Initial Custodial Interview Form
- Handout – Sample Representation Agreement
- Supplement – Interviewing Tips Cheat Sheet
- Supplement – LaVigne Article on Language Disorders
Lesson 6 – Interviewing the Youth’s Collateral Contacts
- Handout – ABA Model Rules 1.14 & 1.6
- Handout – Bibliography
- Handout – Forensic Exercise A
- Handout – Forensic Exercise B
- Handout – Sample Release of Information Form
Lesson 7 – Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE) (Updated Dec. 2018)
- Handout – Bibliography
- Handout – Forensic Exercise 1
- Handout – Forensic Exercise 2
- Handout – Forensic Exercise 3
- Handout – Forensic Exercise 3 – Facilitation Chart
- Handout – LGBTQI-GNC Terms & Definitions
- Handout – Tips for Working with LGBTQ Clients
- Supplement – Hidden injustice: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth in Juvenile Courts
- Supplement – LGBT Youth in Court
- Supplement – Sample Court Order Re: Transgender Healthcare in Detention
- Supplement – Sample Motion Re: Court’s Usage of Correct Pronouns for Transgender or Gender Non-Conforming Youth
- Supplement – Sample Court Order re Transgender Healthcare in Detention
Lesson 8 – Dealing with Difference
Lesson 8.1 – Raising Race (Forthcoming)
- Handout
- Supplement
Lesson 9 – Arrest and Intake
Lesson 10 – Challenging Probable Cause and Detention
- Handout – Forensic Exercise A (PC Hearing “On the Papers”)
- Handout – Forensic Exercise B (PC Evidentiary Hearing)
- Handout – Forensic Exercise C (Detention Problems)
- Handout – Bibliography
- Supplement – 10 Principles for Providing Effective Detention Advocacy
- Supplement – Affidavit of Dr. Marty Beyer re Shackling Harms
- Supplement – Detention Checklist
- Supplement – Juvenile Defender Self-Assessment Checklist
- Supplement – Supervisor Tool for Managing Best Practices in Detention Advocacy
- Supplement – Legal Strategies to Reduce Unnecessary Detention
- Supplement – Sample Conditions of Release Form
- Supplement – Sample Motion to Oppose Psychological Evaluation
- Supplement – Sample Motion to Reduce Detention
- Supplement – Sample Motion for Child to Appear without Restraints
- Supplement – Sample Risk Assessment Tool
- Supplement – Sample Suspect Information Report
- Supplement – Florida Juvenile Rules Amendments re Shackling
- Supplement – NJDC Commentary on Proposed New Mexico Anti-Shackling Rule (2012)
- Supplement – Sample Memo Challenging Shackling
Lesson 11 – Interactions with Probation Officers, Prosecutors, Judges, and Parents
Lesson 12 – Theory of the Case
- Handout – Chart A
- Handout – Chart B
- Handout – Exercise A
- Handout – Exercise B
- Supplement – Ethical Standards & Rules
- Supplement – Developing a Theory of the Case
- Supplement – Theory and Themes
Lesson 13 – Investigation
- Handout – Forensic Exercise A
- Handout – Forensic Exercise B
- Handout – Sample Witness Statement
- Supplement – Bibliography
- Supplement – Directory for Requesting Information from Cell Companies
- Supplement – Important Considerations before Requesting Cell Phone Information
- Supplement – Directory for Requesting Information from Social Media Companies
- Supplement – Important Considerations before Requesting Social Media Information
- Supplement – MySpace Sample Legal Request Cover Sheet
- Supplement – MySpace Sample Consent Form
- Supplement – Sample Cases Where Investigation Was Key
- Supplement – Sample Consent to Release Facebook Information
- Supplement – Sample Ex Parte Motion for Investigator Funds
- Supplement – Sample Investigative Checklist
- Supplement – Sample Letter to Accompany Subpoenas
- Supplement – Sample Student Confidentiality Agreement
- Supplement – Sample Witness Interview Memo
Lesson 14 – Pretrial Discovery Practice
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Handout – Sample Discovery Log
- Handout – Summary of Key Constitutional Cases
- Supplement – Sample Discovery Letter
- Supplement – Sample Motion for Discovery Sanctions
- Supplement – Sample Motion to Dismiss for Failure to Preserve Evidence
- Supplement – Sample Motion for Pretrial Discovery
- Supplement – Sample Motion to Compel Discovery
Lesson 15 – Competence to Stand Trial
- Handout – Bibliography
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Handout – Checklist for Clinician Selection
- Supplement – Sample Ex Parte Motion for an Expert
- Supplement – Survey of State Juvenile Competency Procedures
- Supplement – Developing Statutes for Juvenile Competence: A Guide for Lawmakers
Lesson 16 – Guilty Pleas
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Supplement – Missouri v. Frye
- Supplement – Lafler v. Cooper
- Supplement – Washington v. A.N.J.
Lesson 17 – Challenging Transfer to Adult Court
Lesson 18 – Principles of Motions Practice
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Supplement – Motions Checklist
- Supplement – A Collection of Sample Motions
Lesson 19 – Fourth Amendment Challenges
- Handout – Annotated Bibliography (updated May 2017)
- Handout – Fourth Amendment Analysis Cheat Sheet
- Handout – Forensic Exercises (Full Lesson)
- Handout – School-Specific Forensic Exercise
- Handout – Auto-Specific Forensic Exercise
Lesson 20 – Challenging Juvenile Statements
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Handout – Suppression Theory Chart
- Supplement – Innocent but Proven Guilty
- Supplement – Key Case Principles (updated April 2017)
- Supplement – Police Induced Confessions
- Supplement – Sample Motion to Suppress Statements in the Lopez Exercise
- Supplement – Social Psychology of False Confessions
- Supplement – Summary of Reid Interrogation Techniques
- Supplement – Illinois Amicus Brief
- Supplement – IACP Reducing Risks-Effective Juvenile Interview & Interrogation (2012)
- Supplement – Amicus Brief in California v. Elias V.
Lesson 21 – Challenging Identification Testimony
- Handout – Bibliography (updated June 2017)
- Handout – Forensic Exercise Part 1
- Handout – Forensic Exercise Part 2
- Handout – Analysis of Forensic Exercise (Optional Handout)
- Supplement – DOJ & NIJ Eyewitness Evidence Guide for Law Enforcement
- Supplement – Allowing ID Experts – Jurisdiction Case Summaries
- Supplement – Sample Memo in Support of a Motion to Suppress ID
- Supplement – State Cases Modifying or Rejecting Manson v. Braithwaite
- Supplement – State v. Henderson
- Supplement – Perry v. New Hampshire
- Supplement – Wells et al.: Simultaneous vs. Sequential Lineup – Report of AJS Eyewitness ID Field Studies
- Supplement – Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification
Lesson 22 – Opening Statements
Lesson 23 – Cross-Examination
Lesson 24 – Direct Examination and the Defense Witness
Lesson 25 – Use of Documents and Exhibits
- Handout – Bibliography
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Supplement – Facebook Consent to Release Information Form
- Supplement – Directory for Requesting Information from Phone Companies
- Supplement – Considerations Before Subpoenaing Cell Information from Phone Companies
- Supplement – Directory for Requesting Information from Social Media Services
- Supplement – Considerations Before Subpoenaing Information from Social Media Services
- Supplement – Sample Letter of Request to Accompany Subpoena
Lesson 26 – Impeachment
- Handout – Difference between 2Cs Method and 3Cs Method of Impeachment
- Handout – Bibliography
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Handout – Sample Impeachments
Lesson 27 – Evidence and Objections
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Supplement – Essential Objections
- Supplement – Sample Motion in limine to Exclude Evidence
- Supplement – What Is Hearsay?
Lesson 28 – Hearsay
Lesson 29 – Experts
- Handout – Bibliography
- Handout – Forensic Exercise A
- Handout – Forensic Exercise B
- Handout – Sample Voir Dire of a Prosecution Expert
- Handout – Sample Voir Dire of a Defense Expert
- Supplement – Sample Motion to Appoint an Expert
Lesson 30 – Motion for Judgment of Acquittal/Directed Verdict
- Handout – Bibliography
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Supplement – Sample Motion for Judgement of Acquittal
Lesson 31- Closing Arguments
- Handout – Forensic Exercise A
- Handout – Forensic Exercise B
- Handout – Forensic Exercise C
- Handout – Forensic Exercise D
- Handout – Strategy Chart
- Supplement – Transcript
Lesson 32 – Challenging Juvenile Sex Cases
- Handout – Bibliography
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Handout – Mitigation and Disposition
- Handout – Sample Voir Dire of Youth Witness
- Supplement – Sample Motion to Voir Dire Youth Witness and Exclude Testimony
Lesson 33 – Drug Cases
- Handout – Bibliography
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Supplement – Sample Formal Discovery Letter
- Supplement – Sample Initial Discovery Request
- Supplement – Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
- Supplement – Bullcoming v. New Mexico
Lesson 34 – Immigration Consequences
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Handout – Immigration Consequences of Delinquency
- Handout – Immigration Resources
- Handout – Immigration Terms
- Supplement – Dept. of Homeland Security Memo re Immigration Policy
- Supplement – Deportation System Flowchart
- Supplement – Duty of Defense Counsel
- Supplement – Factsheets on Options for Immigrant Children
- Supplement – Form 1-693
- Supplement – Immigration in the Juvenile Court System Map
- Supplement – Immigration Enforcement and the Deportation System
- Supplement – Paddilla v. Kentucky
- Supplement – Steps to Advising Noncitizen Clients under Padilla v. Kentucky
- Supplement – Youth Immigration Relief Screening Sheet
Lesson 35 – Disposition Advocacy
- Handout – Disposition Planning Chart
- Handout – Forensic Exercise
- Handout – Forensic Exercise (Gun Adaptation)
- Handout – Annotated Dispostion Studies Bibliography (New 2015)
- Supplement – Sample Alternative Disposition Recommendations
- Supplement – Sample Pre-Hearing Submissions
Lesson 36 – Preserving the Record and Engaging in Appellate Advocacy
Lesson 37 – Post-Disposition Advocacy
- Handout – Forensic Exercises
- Supplement – Juvenile Records Expungement Manual
- Supplement – Sample Alternative Disposition Recommendation
- Supplement – Snapshot of Juvenile Sex Offender Registration
Lesson 38 – Multi-Systemic Advocacy: Family, School, and State Agencies
Lesson 39 – Advocacy in Special Education Cases
Lesson 40 – Advocacy in School Discipline Cases
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