The State Appellate Defender Office and the Criminal Defense Resource Center along with the West Michigan Regional Investigator Association will present a webinar on “Stumbling into Mitigation: Interview Techniques for Investigators” Thursday, June 6, from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Fact investigators often stumble upon mitigating evidence as they investigate the facts of a case.
This training will introduce fact investigators to the fundamentals of sentencing mitigation:
• Differences and similarities between the goals and methods of fact investigation and mitigation investigation.
• How to collect and develop mitigation evidence.
• The importance of mitigating evidence that may not rise to the level of a legal defense.
• Open-ended, exploratory, and rapport-based interview techniques.
Chelsea Richardson will be the featured speaker for the webinar. Richardson is the Mitigation specialist supervisor with SADO’s Juvenile Lifer Unit in Detroit, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team of mitigation specialists who work with clients sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for crimes committed as teens.
To register for the webinar, visit www.sado.org/go/Interviewing. Anyone with questions may email cdrc@sado.org.
Fact investigators often stumble upon mitigating evidence as they investigate the facts of a case.
This training will introduce fact investigators to the fundamentals of sentencing mitigation:
• Differences and similarities between the goals and methods of fact investigation and mitigation investigation.
• How to collect and develop mitigation evidence.
• The importance of mitigating evidence that may not rise to the level of a legal defense.
• Open-ended, exploratory, and rapport-based interview techniques.
Chelsea Richardson will be the featured speaker for the webinar. Richardson is the Mitigation specialist supervisor with SADO’s Juvenile Lifer Unit in Detroit, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team of mitigation specialists who work with clients sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for crimes committed as teens.
To register for the webinar, visit www.sado.org/go/Interviewing. Anyone with questions may email cdrc@sado.org.
