NAPD Darrow Baldus College 2024: Full Schedule

Below is the current draft of the schedule. There will be some small changes as we work to finalize the sessions.

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1:00pm CDT

Storytelling: The Heart & Soul of a Winning ID Claim

Speakers

Joette James

Clinical Neuropsychologist, Alina Assessment Services, PLLC

Dr. Joette James completed her doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, her internship at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology... Read More →

Juliet Yackel

Attorney & Capital Mitigation Specialist, Law Offices of Juliet Yackel, Evanston, IL

Juliet has devoted her entire 30-year career to the defense of death penalty cases. She started working as a capital lawyer in 1992 before shifting her focus to capital mitigation. She has worked on over 85 capital cases in 19 states.Juliet regularly serves as invited faculty at national... Read More →

Tuesday June 4, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Room 235

ID Track

2:45pm CDT

Stereotypes and Misconceptions

Speakers

James Patton

Professor of Instruction, Department of Special Education, University of Texas at Austin

James R. Patton is currently an independent consultant and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught students with special needs at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels in both public and private settings. He was formerly on the... Read More →

David Freedman

Tuesday June 4, 2024 2:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
Room 235

ID Track

Subject ID

4:30pm CDT

ID Small Groups

Small group room assignments

Tuesday June 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CDT
Break out rooms

ID Track

9:00am CDT

Legal Strategy in ID Cases

Speakers

Emily Paavola

National Habeas Assistance and Training Project

Emily Paavola is counsel with the National Habeas Assistance and Training Project. She practices in Columbia, South Carolina. From 2008 to 2017, she ran the South Carolina Death Penalty Resource Center (now called Justice 360). Prior to that, she worked as a project fellow for the... Read More →

Wednesday June 5, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CDT
Room 235

ID Track

1:30pm CDT

Deficits in Adaptive functioning: Part 1

Wednesday June 5, 2024 1:30pm - 2:45pm CDT
Room 235

ID Track

Subject ID

9:00am CDT

Deficits In Adaptive Functioning: The Social and Practical Domains

Speakers

James Patton

Professor of Instruction, Department of Special Education, University of Texas at Austin

Thursday June 6, 2024 9:00am - 10:15am CDT
Room 235

ID Track

Subject ID

1:15pm CDT

Can you feel it? Telling the story of intellectual disability.

Speakers

Betsy Wilson

Founder, Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston

Betsy Wilson is a founder of the Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston, where she leads a multidisciplinary team of sentencing advocates and record specialists. SAGE conducts mitigation investigations in federal and state and capital, juvenile-life-sentence, and non-capital cases... Read More →

Thursday June 6, 2024 1:15pm - 2:30pm CDT
Room 235

ID Track