Navigating Prosecutorial Ethics:

A Roundtable Discussion of the

ABA's Standards for Criminal Litigation

Presented by

The Hastings Law Journal and the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly

 

This exciting roundtable is presented in conjunction with a national project of the American Bar Association to revise the Criminal Justice Standards on the Prosecution and Defense Function.

The panels will feature prominent prosecutors, criminal defense counsel, judges, academics, journalists, and politicians.  Each roundtable will feature eight participants and will focus on one of three important topics related to prosecutorial ethics: disclosure of evidence (Brady discovery); media relations; and the practical uses (and abuses) of the Standards in criminal litigation.

These discussions will be recorded and will contribute to the ABA's ongoing six-year project to revise the Prosecution and Defense Function standards (1993 edition).  The existing standards can be found at http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/standards/pfunc_toc.html.  Hastings is proud to be the home of the Reporter for the ABA's project, Professor Rory Little.

In addition to the October 15 event at Hastings, the ABA is sponsoring similar events at 14 law schools across the country, addressing various discrete topics within the Standards.  Hastings is the “flagship” school for these discussions, and the Hastings Law Journal and the Hastings Constitutional Quarterly will publish essays related to all of the national roundtables in two unprecedented contemporaneous issues in Spring 2011.

 

Pretrial Discovery of Evidence and Brady Disclosure

Moderators: Professors Eumi K. Lee and Rory K. Little

10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender

Diane Marie Amann, Director, California International Law Center, UC Davis King Hall

Cristina C. Arguedas, Arguedas, Cassman & Headley, LLP

Hon. Carol A. Corrigan, Associate Justice, California Supreme Court

Harry Dorfman, Assistant District Attorney, San Francisco District Attorney's Office

Jeffrey L. Fisher, Director, Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

Paul B. Meltzer, Law Offices of Paul B. Meltzer

Phoenix Streets, Assistant Public Defender, San Francisco

Ellen C. Yaroshefsky, Director, Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law, Cardozo Univ.

Media Relations

Moderator: Professor Kate E. Bloch

1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Phil Bronstein, Executive Vice President & Editor at Large, San Francisco Chronicle

James J. Brosnahan, Morrison & Foerster

Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, California Department of Justice

Paul Henderson, Chief of Administration, San Francisco District Attorney's Office

Matthew J. Jacobs, McDermott Will & Emery

Dennis P. Riordan, Riordan & Horgan

Rita Williams, KTVU

 

Practical Implications and Use of the Standards

Moderator: Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard

3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Lara Bazelon, Clinical Teaching Fellow, UC Hastings

Nanci L. Clarence, Clarence & Dyer

William Frentzen, Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of California

Hon. J. Anthony Kline, Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal, First District

Rory K. Little, Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law

David A.  Sklansky, Chair, Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice, UC Berkeley School of Law

Hon. John R.  Tunheim, United States District Judge, District of Minnesota

Richard A. Zitrin, Professor, UC Hastings

Schedule of Events

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.             Welcome and Continental Breakfast

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.           Opening Remarks by Chancellor and Dean Frank H. Wu

10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.         Panel One: Pretrial Discovery of Evidence and Brady Disclosure

11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.           Lunch and Keynote address

1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.             Panel Two: Media Relations

3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.             Panel Three: Practical Implications and Use of the Standards

5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.             Reception