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JOHN BLUME, ESQ.
Cornell Law School, Justice 360
John Blume is the Samuel F Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques at Cornell Law School and he also serves as Habeas Assistance and Training Counsel for the Defender Services Branch of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. He has argued eight cases in the Supreme Court of the United States and represented numerous men and women on death row on direct appeal, state post-conviction and federal habeas corpus proceedings in nine states as well as on the military and federal death rows. He received his BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a JD from Yale Law School. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Tom Clark, and then returned to his native state of South Carolina where he represented persons facing the death penalty and persons sentenced to death in private practice and as the Executive Director of Justice 360-SC. He joined the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1997.
ALEKSANDRA CHAUHAN, JD, Ph.D.
Juvenile Defender Advocate, SCCID
In the fall of 2019 Dr. Aleksandra Chauhan obtained an OJJDP grant to start a Juvenile Defender Advocate position at the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense. In that position Dr. Chauhan focuses on South Carolina juvenile justice data collection, training, and support of juvenile defense attorneys in the state. Prior to that, Dr. Chauhan was an assistant public defender in Richland County, SC. In 2015-2016, she obtained two federal grants to open a Youth Reentry Program at the Public Defender’s Office. The Youth Reentry team that she supervised consisted of a social worker, youth advocates and a civil attorney. It focused on holistic representation of the youth. Dr. Chauhan received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. During her doctoral studies she focused on researching the Convention on the Rights of the Child. After obtaining her Ph.D., she studied law and in 2013 received her J.D. at the USC School of Law. In addition to representing youth, Dr. Chauhan is on the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Children’s Rights, Every Black Girl, Inc., the Columbia Film Society and is on the Advisory Committee of the Southern Juvenile Defense Center. Dr. Chauhan has presented keynotes and workshops on issues of reentry, trauma, and racial justice at local and national conferences. She is actively involved in creating systemic change in her community and raising awareness about needs and challenges youth face in their communities. Dr. Chauhan was recognized as a 2017 Juvenile Public Defender of the Year. She is a 2019 SC BAR Leadership Academy graduate and a 2020 Georgetown Law School Ambassador for Racial Justice.
MEGAN EHRLICH, ESQ.
Charleston County Public Defender’s Office
Megan Ehrlich serves as the Chief Public Defender for Charleston County. She joined the office as a juvenile defender and spent over three years representing children in Family Court before moving to the General Sessions Division. She is a graduate of Emory University and the University of South Carolina School of Law. As a law student, she clerked at the Texas Civil Rights Project in Austin, Texas, and the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center under Sue Berkowitz. In 2017, the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association awarded her with the Martha Browning Dicus Award for Public Interest Law.
HANNAH FREEDMAN, ESQ.
Justice 360
Hannah Freedman is a Staff Attorney at Justice 360, a non-profit organization that works to advance equality in the criminal justice system. Hannah represents people sentenced to death, children facing death-in-prison sentences, and adults who were sentenced to life without parole as children. Her work also involves empirical and historical studies of the criminal justice system. Prior to starting at Justice 360, Hannah was a clerk for Justice Harold E. Eaton of the Vermont Supreme Court and Judge Richard C. Wesley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She is a graduate of Cornell Law School and Duke University.
LINDSAY VANN, ESQ.
Justice 360
Lindsey Vann is the Executive Director of Justice 360 in Columbia, South Carolina. She represents individuals facing death sentences and juveniles facing lengthy prison sentences, especially life without parole. Lindsey tracks all death penalty and juvenile life without parole cases in South Carolina and has authored several resources designed to assist criminal defense attorneys in their representation of clients at the trial and post-conviction levels in death penalty and life without parole cases. She is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Richmond School of Law. She previously served as a law clerk to a federal district court judge, the Honorable James R. Spencer in the Eastern District of Virginia.
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