Death penalty litigation is focus of FBA brown bag event
The Criminal Practice Committee of the Federal Bar Association will present “Death Penalty Litigation in Michigan” on Friday, Feb. 18.
The State of Michigan abolished the death penalty more than 150 years ago. But there are still death penalty cases here. The death penalty is an available sanction for a limited number of federal crimes, and prosecutors in Michigan have sought the death penalty in recent federal criminal cases in our State.
A distinguished panel of experts will discuss federal death penalty cases in Michigan.
Panelists will include U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Tarnow, Eastern District of Michigan; Assistant United States Attorney Daniel Lemisch, chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan; attorney Richard Kammen, counsel for several capital defendants; attorney Juliet Yackel, death penalty sentencing mitigation specialist; and Harold Gurewtiz, local defense attorney in death penalty case.
The program will be conducted Friday, Feb. 18, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Room 115 of the Federal Courthouse. This is a “brown bag” event, and audience members should feel free to bring a lunch.
Holiday Hours
The Wayne County Clerk’s Office will be closed Friday, Dec. 24 through Monday, Jan. 3 and will re-open Tuesday, Jan. 4. Open Dec. 28, 29 and 30 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. will be: Circuit Court Civil Filings (Rm. 201) and Family Filings and Personal Protection Orders (Rm. 928) located in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center; Criminal Division in the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice; Juvenile Division in the Lincoln Hall of Justice. Filings for Department of Human Services and Juvenile Assessment Center will be open from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. only.
The Office of the City Clerk (200 CAYMC) and the City Clerk Archives and Records Division (65) Cadillac Tower, Ste. 1600) will shut down for the holiday beginning Monday, Dec. 20 through Monday, Jan. 3. The City Clerk offices will reopen during its regular business hours on Wednesday, Jan. 5. (Tuesday, Jan. 4, is a budget-required furlough day.)
The Wayne County Probate Court will close for the holiday season at noon on Thursday, Dec. 23 and reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 4 at 8 a.m.
The Wayne County Probate Court will be open Dec. 28, 29, and 30, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to accept pleadings, and to conduct mental health and emergency hearings.
In observance of the 2010 Holiday Season, the 36th District Court will be closed to the public on Friday, Dec. 24, Monday, Dec. 27, Friday, Dec. 31, and Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Only Criminal Arraignments will be conducted.
The Third Circuit Court Civil, Criminal and Family Divisions will be closed Friday, Dec. 24 and Mondqy, Dec. 27 in observance of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
On Tuesday, Dec. 28, Wednesday, Dec. 29, and Thursday, Dec. 30, the court will be open for essential services only, including criminal arraignments, probation violation, failure to appear warrants, personal protection orders, parental waivers, and other emergency civil and family division matters.
The County Clerk’s Office will be open to accept civil and domestic relations pleadings and new case filings from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m on those days.
The court will be closed on Friday, Dec. 31 and Monday, Jan. 3 in observance of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, and will re-open on Tuesday, Jan. 4.
The emergency procedure that is published in the Detroit Legal News every Friday should be followed or any after-hour emergency matter.
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