Seminar Handouts

Criminal Law Section President’s Day Weekend Ski Conference
Shanty Creek Resort
February 20 - 22, 2005

Criminal Law Update

• 2004 Criminal Legislation Update (70 kb) - Thomas Robertson, Executive Director, Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council
  
  
• 2004: The Year in Review (228 kb) - Timothy Baughman, Wayne Co. Prosecuting Attorney’s office

Crawford v Washington

• A Prosecutor’s Initial Look at Crawford v Washington: Everyone Out of the Poole? (42 kb) - Timothy Baughman, Wayne Co. Prosecuting Attorney’s office
  
  
• Crawford v Washington: Reframing the Right to Confrontation (885 kb) - Jeffrey L. Fisher, Attorney at Law, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA
  
  
• Crawford v Washington: The Unresolved Issues (29 kb) - David A. Moran, Wayne State Univ. Law School
  
  
• Crawford and the Confrontation Clause: An Analytical Outline (79 kb) - Jerrold Schrotenboer, Jackson Co. Prosecuting Attorney’s office
  
  
• When Bad Appeals Make Bad Law (306 kb) - Roger Canaff, American Prosecutor's Research Institute

Sentencing Issues: Blakely v Washington / US v Booker / Fanfan

• A Prosecutor’s View of Blakely v Washington (55 kb) - Timothy Baughman, Wayne Co. Prosecuting Attorney’s office
  
  
• Blakely / Booker Discussion (357 kb) - Anne Yantus, SADO

Articles

Drunk Driving

• .08 and Other Changes (563 kb) - Patrick T. Baron and Jeffrey S. Crampton – MBJ 2004 February
  
  
• Alcohol-Related Offenses: Retrograde Extrapolation After Wager (35 kb) - J. Nicholas Bostic – MBJ 2000 June
  
  
• Changes in Drunk Driving Laws (169 kb) - John Reiser - CLJ 2001-2002
  
  
• Healing Drunk Drivers: Michigan’s OUIL/Sobriety Drug Courts (2,733 kb) - Hon. Harvey J. Hoffman – MBJ 2003 Jan
  
  
• Repeat Offender Driving Reform: Summary of Key Elements and Practice Tips (39 kb) - Elaine H. Charney – MBJ 2000 July
  
  
• Understanding Quantitative Blood Alcohol Testing (2,212 kb) - Patrick T. Baron and Jeffrey S. Crampton – MBJ 2003 August

Evidence

• Computer Generated Visual Evidence: The Future is Now (239 kb) - William M. Worden – CLJ 2003
  
  
• Implications and Illumination of MRE 404(b) Other Acts Evidence (182 kb) - William M. Worden – CLJ 2001-2002
  
  
• Trial on the Cheap: Using Physical and Demonstrative Evidence That Doesn’t Cost a Bundle (355 kb) - John Beason and Matthew Paul Smith

Habeas

• Keeping Habeas in Mind: The Importance of Raising and Exhausting Federal Issues in State Criminal Cases (189 kb) - David A. Moran and F. Martin Tieber – CLJ 2001-2002
  
  
• Keeping Habeas in Mind: What State Judges and Prosecutors Don’t Know Can Hurt Them (217 kb) - Jerrold Schrotenboer – CLJ 2003

Immigration

• Criminal Immigration – The Consequences of Criminal Convictions on Non-U.S. Citizens (172 kb) - Ronald Kaplovitz – CLJ 2001-2002

Insanity / Criminal Responsibility

• Assessment of Competency to Stand Trial & Criminal Responsibility (238 kb) - Dan Swerdlow-Freed – CLJ 2003
  
  
• The Legal Insanity Defense in Michigan after People v Carpenter, 464 Mich 223 (2001) (178 kb) - Kimberley Reed Thompson – CLJ 2001-2002
  
  
• The Untimely Death of Michigan’s Diminished Capacity Defense: People v Carpenter (1,671 kb) - Kimberley Reed Thompson – MBJ 2003 Feb

Police

• Innovative Use of Investigative Subpoena Laws by the Kalamazoo County and Michigan Law Enforcement Agencies to Solve Cold-Cases (171 kb) - Stuart L. Fenton – CLJ 2001-2002
  
  
• When the Cop Becomes the Suspect: A Primer on Garrity (195 kb) - Mark A. Porter – CLJ 2001-2002

Prisons / Parole

• Barriers to Reentry: Legal Strategies to Reduce Recidivism and Promote he Success of Ex-offenders (354 kb) - Miriam J. Aukerman – CLJ 2003
  
  
• Does a Politically Appointed Parole Board Cost Michigan Citizens Hundreds of Millions of Dollars? (179 kb) - Daniel E. Manville – CLJ 2001-2002
  
  
• Unfair Parole Board Interpretation of Lifer Law (259 kb) - Paul C. Louisell – CLJ 2003

Procedure

• Evaluating Witness Credibility in Preliminary Examinations (289 kb) - Hon. Mark A. Randon and Timothy Gardner, Jr. – CLJ 2003
  
  
• Our Supreme Court’s Abdication of Law Making Authority over Criminal Procedure and Substantive Criminal Law (187 kb) - Alan Saltzman – CLJ 2001-2002

Research

• Effective Legal Research in Criminal Cases (24 kb) - Randy E. Davidson – MBL 2000 August

Sentencing

• After Apprendi … (183 kb) - Jerrold Schrotenboer – CLJ 2001-2002
  
  
• Legislative Sentencing Guidelines: Michigan’s Transition to a Limited-Discretion Sentencing Scheme (195 kb) - Anne Yantus – CLJ 2001-2002
  
  
• Michigan’s Sentencing Guidelines (32 kb) - Sheila Robertson Deming – MBJ 2000 June

Miscellaneous

• Can a Polygraph Help Your Client? (51 kb) - James W. Bassett – MBJ 2002 October
  
  
• Guide to New Anti-Terrorism Laws (185 kb) - Karen Dunne Woodside and Alan Gershel – CLJ 2001-2002
  
  
• The Source of Law: Where Do Principles of Criminal Law and Procedure Come From? (174 kb) - Timothy A. Baughman – CLJ 2001-2002
  
  
• Why Go to Trial If You Don’t Have To? - cases listed in CLS 2002 Ski Conference’s Pre-Trial Motions seminar

CLS Newsletters

• January 2008 PDF
• September 2007 PDF
• June 2007 PDF
• April 2007 PDF
• February 2007 PDF
• January 2007 PDF
• December 2005 PDF

Reports

Criminal Law Journal

• Criminal Law Journal 2003
  
  
• Criminal Law Journal 2001-2002
  

Annual Reports

• 2004-2005 PDF

• 2001-2002 – Karen Dunne Woodside

Criminal Legislation Updates
Thomas Robertson, Executive Director, Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council

• 2004 Criminal Legislation Updates (70 kb)
  
  
• 2003 Criminal Legislation Updates (29 kb)
  
  
• 2002 Criminal Legislation Updates (55 kb)

“State of the Law” / “Year in Review”
Timothy Baughman, Wayne Co. Prosecuting Attorney’s office

• 2004: The Year in Review (228 kb)
  
  
• 2002-2003 State of the Law: Criminal Law and Procedure (540 kb)
  
  
• 2000-2001 State of the Law: Criminal Law and Procedure (137 kb)