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 FREE

Notice:  This Workshop is open only to:

• South Carolina juvenile public defenders who are either employed in a circuit public defender office or contracted directly with a circuit public defender office

OR

• Indigent Defense Contract Attorneys who handle juvenile cases as part of their contract.

To Register, click this link:

https://oid.webex.com/oid/onstage/g.php?MTID=ebf4e420caa350a8bb6f8e19a0b44414f

CLE Credit:

MCLE Course #  214884ADO 

6.25 Hours  MCLE credit

 We will be using Code Words to verify attention during this seminar.  Each code word will have a value equal to the number of minutes in that section of the seminar.  Please download and print a copy of the Agenda linked below to which has blanks for you to write down the code words for each section.

Agenda w Code Word Blanks.pdf 

Experience Level:

This workshop provides an introduction to the juvenile appeal process, but should be valuable for juvenile defense attorneys of all experience levels.

When:

March 12, 2021

09:00 am to 4:30 pm

Where:

Lecture / Discussion

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 this position Dr. Chauhan focuses on South Carolina juvenile justice data collection and on 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 University of South Carolina School of Law.  In addition to representing youth, Dr. Chauhan is on the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Children’s Rights and is on the Advisory Committee of the Southern Juvenile Defender Center.  Dr. Chauhan has presented keynotes and workshops on issues of reentry and trauma at local, national and international 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 and is a 2020 recipient of the Ambassador for Racial Justice scholarship.

 NATHANIEL BRADY

Assistant Public Defender, Richland County 

Nate works within the Richland County Public Defender’s Office. He attended Tulane University, receiving a Bachelor of Sciences degree in 2012. In 2015, he received his Juris Doctor from Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans. After briefly practicing in Louisiana, Nate moved to Columbia and joined the Richland County Public Defender’s Office.

In 2018, Nate helped to start the Richland County Public Defender’s bond court program, representing defendants at their initial bond hearings in front of magistrate judges. Nate remains a supervisor of that program as well as the Richland County magistrate court team, though he handles a variety of cases.

Nate has presented at the South Carolina Commission of Indigent Defense’s Annual Public Defender Conference regarding bail, guest lectured at the University of South Carolina School of Law, and taught at South Carolina’s Magistrate Advisory Council’s Intensive Training Seminar. In practice, Nate has filed and successfully litigated numerous habeas petitions regarding bail and unlawful pretrial detention in South Carolina.

 ROBERT DUDEK

Chief Appellate Defender, South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense 

Robert M. Dudek is the Chief Appellate Defender for the Appellate Division of the Commission on Indigent Defense.  He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina College of Journalism.   Dudek was a VISTA volunteer in Alaska in 1980.  He also is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law.  He has been an Appellate Defender since 1990 serving first as an Assistant Appellate Defender, then the Deputy Chief Attorney for Capital Appeals, and now as the Chief Appellate Defender.  Dudek has presented on the topic of Preserving the Record for Appellate Review at the invitation of the Chief Public Defenders for many years.  He has also been  a long time presenter at the Public Defender Convention on the Case Law Update.  Dudek has also presented at the Public Defender Convention on the Death Penalty and Preserving the Record for Appeal.  He has also presented on various topics at the Best Practices Seminar in Charleston for several years. 

 SUSAN HACKETT

Assistant Appellate Defender, SCCID

Susan Barber Hackett is an Appellate Defender with the Office of Appellate Defense.  Previously, Ms. Hackett worked at the Office of Disciplinary Counsel.  She also served as the Executive Director of the Center of Capital Litigation, a non-profit dedicated to the representation of individuals charged with capital crimes.  While an associate at Blume, Webyle & Norris, LLC, she represented criminal defendants in state and federal courts.  Upon graduating from law school, Ms. Hackett served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Deadra L. Jefferson in the Ninth Judicial Circuit.  Ms. Hackett also taught legal writing at the University of South Carolina School of Law as an adjunct professor for two years.  Ms. Hackett is an active member of the South Carolina Bar, serving on the Professional Responsibility Committee, and the Law Related Education Committee.   

 AMANDA POWELL

Attorney, Trainer, Juvenile Defense Consultant, National Juvenile Defender Center

 Amanda Powell is an attorney, trainer, and juvenile defense consultant to the National Juvenile Defender Center. After graduating from Capital University Law School in 2003, Amanda was with the Office of the Ohio Public Defender until 2016. While there, she supervised attorneys in the juvenile appeals section and litigated more than 120 appeals, including eight cases argued in the Supreme Court of Ohio, for children with juvenile delinquency adjudications or those transferred to adult court. As a consultant, Amanda has assisted with litigation strategies for youth in more than a dozen states across the country, including authoring NJDC’s recent amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Missouri. Amanda has been a proud Certified JTIP Trainer for NJDC’s Juvenile Training Immersion Program since 2014 and has trained thousands of juvenile defenders in more than 750 training sessions across 29 states and the District of Columbia. 

 SARAH SMITH

Assistant Public Defender, Richland County 

 Sarah Darbee Smith received her undergraduate degree in History from the College of Charleston. She attended law school at the University of South Carolina, receiving her J.D. in 2001. As an attorney, Sarah has focused on juvenile justice matters, working as a juvenile public defender, a juvenile justice resource attorney for the Children’s Law Center at the University of South Carolina School of Law, and as assistant counsel at the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice. Currently, Sarah works with juveniles as an assistant public defender at the Richland County Public Defender’s Office.