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The Montroy Series

The Idaho Public Defense Commission’s monthly CLE webinars- The Montroy Series- feature local and national experts discussing current issues in public defense. Webinars cover analysis of local and national cases, and examination of legal concepts and public defense topics. Our goal is to provide practical information and skills that will benefit your practice. The sessions are recorded and available to roster members for later viewing. We welcome all ideas and suggestions for future webinars.

STATE v. MONTROY, 1923. 37 Idaho 684. “It is the public policy of this state, disclosed by constitutional guarantees as well as by numerous provisions of the statutes, to accord to every person accused of a crime, not only a fair and impartial trial, but every reasonable opportunity to prepare his defense and to vindicate his innocence upon a trial. In a case of indigent persons accused of crime, the court must assign counsel to the defense at public expense.”

Scheduled Webinars:

What every Idaho defense lawyer needs to know about DNA
June 11, 2024
12:30-1:30 MT/11:30-1:30 PT
Greg Hampikian, Ph.D., BSU Professor of Biology, and Criminal Justice, Director of the Boise State Univ. Wastewater Epidemiology Lab (BSUWEL), Director of the Forensic Justice Project, Co-Director of the Idaho Innocence Project at BSU,
 Lecturer, University of Idaho College of Law
1 PDC CLE credit, ISB CLE credit pending

Forensic science grew out of police laboratories. Terms like “Sperm Fraction”, “Match”, “Absence of Evidence”, “Can Not Exclude” and “Defense Hypothesis” are misused and can lead to wrongful convictions. The presentation will show examples of wrongful convictions and discuss solutions implemented by some forensic laboratories. The presentation will share examples of misleading testimony, undocumented forensic laboratory findings, incorrect mixture analysis, and great variance in statistical measures from the same underlying data. 

To register, click here.

 

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