Come Back with a Warrant: Reclaiming the 4th Amendment

July 25–27, 2019 \\ Radisson Kalamazoo Plaza Hotel100 W. Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI

Advanced Criminal Defense Practice Summer Conference

July 25–27, 2019 Thursday (optional) — Saturday

Radisson Kalamazoo Plaza Hotel 100 W. Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI | (269) 343-3333

Featuring Keynote Speaker Nathan Freed Wessler

Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project New York, New York

Just $125.00 Per Night!Rates guaranteed through 7/3/19 or until block is filled

$5/Day Parking Fee Not Included — Remember to mention CDAM! —

Three Days of Amazing SessionsA is for Attorney James R. Samuels, Big RapidsLisa B. Kirsch-Satawa, Bloomfield Hills Experience CDAM’s acclaimed new lawyer session. Much of what a new lawyer needs to know to begin practicing criminal defense: interviewing a client, setting up a file, nuts and bolts of criminal court procedures, Q&A. Morning session is procedure, working lunch. Afternoon session is trial skills.

Breaking News and Hot Topics Elizabeth A. LaCosse, Marquette

Carpenter and Beyond: How to Win a Strong 4th Amendment for the Digital Age Nathan Freed Wessler, New York City

Introduction and Overview of 4th Amendment Josh Blanchard, Greenville

Free and Cheap Tech Resources for Criminal Defense Attorneys Marla McCowan, MIDC Director of Training and Outreach, Lansing

Digital Forensics in Your Matters: Investigations, Procedures, and Inspirations Adam Kelly, Lansing

Federal Primer Joanna Kloet, Grand Rapids

May the 4th Be With You: Writing and Arguing Effective Search & Seizure Motions Mary Chartier, East Lansing

Litigating Race to Protect Our Clients’ 4th Amendment Rights: Fighting Implicit and Explicit Bias Underlying Decisions by the Police, Prosecutors, and Judges Andre Vitale, Jersey City, NJ

Spotting and Arguing 4th Amendment Challenges, Including Reasonable Suspicion Steve Kaplan, West Bloomfield

Incorporating Social Science into Your Criminal Defense Practice Eve Brensike Primus, Ann Arbor

Search and Seizure in the Home Karl P. Numinen, Marquette

Must Vampires Respect the 4th Amendment? Constitutional Standards for Drawing Blood in Drunk and Drugged Driving Cases Patrick T. Barone, Birmingham

SADO.org: Essential Online Resources Marilena David-Martin, Detroit

Police Street Encounters and the 4th Amendment Michael Carter, Detroit

US Supreme Court Update Kathy Swedlow, Lansing

Your 4th Amendment Case Issues Josh Blanchard, Greenville Anatomy of a Motion Hon. Donald L. Allen, Jr., Mason Theodora Eisenhut, Lansing Takura Nyamfukdza, East Lansing

Taking the PSIR from Harmful to Helpful Jessica L. Zimbelman, Lansing

Be Careful What You Wish For: Bodycams and the 4th Amendment Gabi D. Silver, Detroit Casey N. Swanson, Detroit

Search & Seizure Practice Pointers from the Bench Judge Joseph Farah, 7th Circuit, Flint

Michigan Law Update Jason Eggert, Detroit

Ethics: What Would You Do? Kenneth M. Mogill, Lake Orion

100 Mile Zone: Is All of Michigan a Warantless Border Zone? Monica C. Andrade, Detroit

Michigan Sentencing Guidelines Anne Yantus, Detroit

Get to Know Keynote Speaker Nathan Freed Wessler

Nathan Freed Wessler (@NateWessler) is a staff attorney with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where he focuses on litigation and advocacy around surveillance and privacy issues, including government searches of electronic devices, requests for sensitive data held by third parties, and use of surveillance technologies. In 2017, he argued Carpenter v. United States in the U.S. Supreme Court, a case that established that the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to get a search warrant before requesting cell phone location data from a person’s cellular service provider.

Nate was previously a legal fellow in the ACLU National Security Project, where he was involved in litigation seeking transparency and accountability for targeted killing and challenging unlawful detentions at the U.S. prisons in Bagram and Guantanamo. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Helene N. White of the U.S. Court of Appeals

for the Sixth Circuit. Nate is a graduate of Swarthmore College and New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar. Before law school, he worked as a field organizer in the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office.

In his keynote, Carpenter and Beyond: How to Win a Strong Fourth Amendment for the Digital Age, Nate will discuss how in Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court held that a warrant is required for law enforcement access to a person’s historical cell site location information, rejecting the government’s argument that the third-party doctrine should apply. Nate will discuss the strategy that won the day in Carpenter, and how to leverage the lessons of that decision to further expand Fourth Amendment rights in the digital age.

ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project | New York City

Conference InformationContinuing Legal Education Credit Hours

One credit hour is accrued for each hour of CLE training: 22 maximum hours available. CLE forms will be available at the registration desk. Attorneys are responsible for completing the form and submitting it to the person responsible for tracking their CLE hours. Attorneys are advised to keep a copy of their CLE form. CLE hours are good through 2019.

Conference Material

Material will be distributed through a Dropbox link and a CDAM CrowdCompass application. Registrants are strongly encouraged to bring a smartphone, laptop, or other electronic device in order to access materials. Hard copy materials are only available if purchased by July 3, 2019. See registration form. Thank you for helping us reduce our carbon footprint.

For Assigned Counsel and Public Defenders

Some county/court funding units will pay for part, or all, of the cost of your registration. In some instances, hotel per diem and mileage are also covered. It is up to you to contact your local funding unit to determine if this is applicable to you and what payment or reimbursement method you will need to use. If the court pays for registration, the attorney must attend at least 12 hours of training.

If you do not know the contact information for your court’s local funding unit, contact Deborah Mitchell at the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission at 517-657-3066 or dmitchell@michiganidc.gov. If you email, use the subject line “CDAM.”

If your funding unit is not listed on the attachment, CDAM is not your provider for MIDC CLE. However, you are welcome to attend, and credit hours accrued meet MIDC standards and can be applied toward minimum standards.

NOTE: Please get the name of your court’s funding unit before you begin the registration process.

Registration and/or Questions

Register online at www.CDAMonline.org. For questions, please call CDAM at 517-579-0533.

A Special Thanks to Nationwide Interlock, Defender Sponsor, and to SADO’s CDRC for administrative assistance