The State Appellate Defender Office and Criminal Defense Resource Center will present “How to Identify & Effectively Use Clients’ Intellectual Disability (Part II)” online Tuesday, May 21, from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Intellectual disability has been used successfully in criminal cases to achieve lower sentences, suppress statements, and much more. Nevertheless, persons with intellectual disability often go to great lengths to hide their disability – even from their lawyers – due to shame and embarrassment.
At this training, attendees will learn how to effectively document ID, educate relevant parties about ID (particularly judges or prosecutors who may have difficulties getting past stereotypes & misconception), and tell the client’s story in a way that promotes positive outcomes.
Juliet Yackel will be speaking at the online training. Yackel has devoted her career to the defense of death penalty cases and has special expertise in the area of intellectual disability. She started working as a death penalty lawyer in 1992 before shifting her focus to capital mitigation, and has worked on cases nationwide.
Yackel regularly serves as invited faculty at national, state and local seminars regarding best practices in death penalty cases, and she also teaches for the American Psychological Association on the subject of evaluating intellectual disability in capital cases.
To register for the online training, visit www.sado.org/go/IDPartTwo.
Anyone with questions may email Kathy Swedlow at kswedlow@sado.org.
Intellectual disability has been used successfully in criminal cases to achieve lower sentences, suppress statements, and much more. Nevertheless, persons with intellectual disability often go to great lengths to hide their disability – even from their lawyers – due to shame and embarrassment.
At this training, attendees will learn how to effectively document ID, educate relevant parties about ID (particularly judges or prosecutors who may have difficulties getting past stereotypes & misconception), and tell the client’s story in a way that promotes positive outcomes.
Juliet Yackel will be speaking at the online training. Yackel has devoted her career to the defense of death penalty cases and has special expertise in the area of intellectual disability. She started working as a death penalty lawyer in 1992 before shifting her focus to capital mitigation, and has worked on cases nationwide.
Yackel regularly serves as invited faculty at national, state and local seminars regarding best practices in death penalty cases, and she also teaches for the American Psychological Association on the subject of evaluating intellectual disability in capital cases.
To register for the online training, visit www.sado.org/go/IDPartTwo.
Anyone with questions may email Kathy Swedlow at kswedlow@sado.org.
