The State Appellate Defender Office and the Criminal Defense Resource Center will present a webinar on “Raising Race in Search and Seizure Litigation (Part II):?Special Issues in Youth Cases” Tuesday, September 23, from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.  

This session will equip attorneys to combine a race-conscious approach to search and seizure litigation with legally relevant principles of adolescent development.

Participants will learn how to:

• Effectively raise the issues of race and youth at suppression hearings.
• Analyze and apply relevant case law to argue the relevance of youth and race when litigating suppression issues.
• Explore how to interrogate and challenge the credibility of officers in suppression arguments.
• Make and preserve arguments about the relevance of race and youth.

Speaking at the training will be Ashley Burrell, Kacey Mordecai, Victor Genecin, and Molly Cain from the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund.   

To register for the webinar, visit www.sado.org/go/RR2. Anyone with questions may email cdrc@sado.org.

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