The Criminal Defense Association of Michigan will present the webinar “Sentencing Guidelines Part One: The Basics” on Tuesday, September 22, from 2 to 3 p.m. via Zoom.
This one-hour session is geared to those who are new to practice or new to criminal defense. Attendees will learn:
• The guidelines and why they matter
• What is an offense variable, and what is considered in scoring them
• How to calculate the guideline range
• How to categorize the sentencing offense
Presenting at the webinar will be Kristin LaVoy who rejoined SADO in February 2026 as the training director. Before then, she spent nearly five years training trial defenders in Wayne County as the training director at Neighborhood Defender Service of Detroit and then at the Wayne County Indigent Defense Services Department.
Cost for the webinar is $40 for CDAM members and $50 for non-members. To register, visit https://cdam.wildapricot.org.
This one-hour session is geared to those who are new to practice or new to criminal defense. Attendees will learn:
• The guidelines and why they matter
• What is an offense variable, and what is considered in scoring them
• How to calculate the guideline range
• How to categorize the sentencing offense
Presenting at the webinar will be Kristin LaVoy who rejoined SADO in February 2026 as the training director. Before then, she spent nearly five years training trial defenders in Wayne County as the training director at Neighborhood Defender Service of Detroit and then at the Wayne County Indigent Defense Services Department.
Cost for the webinar is $40 for CDAM members and $50 for non-members. To register, visit https://cdam.wildapricot.org.
