Calendar of Special Events 2007-2008
Town Hall Meeting on Ohio’s Death Penalty System**
The Criminal Law Section of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and the University of Akron School of Law will jointly sponsor a free public Town Hall Meeting on Ohio’s Death Penalty System on May 20 from 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law on East 18th and Euclid Avenue.
The Ohio Supreme Court has approved the Town Hall Meeting for three hours of Continuing Legal Education Credit.
The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and the two law schools have called the Town Hall Meeting on Ohio’s Death Penalty System in response to a study conducted by the American Bar Association’s Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project, launched in 2001, not as an effort to abolish the death penalty but as an effort to assess its fairness and accuracy. Project members studied the penalty systems in eight states. Ohio was one of those.
The Ohio study found the death penalty in Ohio “plagued with serious problems.”
Cleveland-Marshall Associate Dean Phyllis L. Crocker chaired the Ohio study and will be one of the Town Hall speakers. Cleveland-Marshall Dean Geoffrey S. Mearns, who was a member of the Ohio study, will open the Town Hall Meeting. Robin Marie Maher, Director of the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project, will moderate the discussions.
Other speakers include University of Cincinnati Professor of Law Mark Godsey, Director of the Ohio Innocence Project and a member of Ohio’s Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project team; and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office Major Trial Unit Chief David Zimmerman.
Topics include a review of the ABA’s Examination of Ohio's Death Penalty System, Applications of the Death Penalty in Ohio, Case Law Update and Trends in Capital Cases.
For more information on the Town Hall Meeting or to register, please contact Samantha Pringle at 216-696-3525 or springle@ClevMetroBar.org
*One free hour of CLE credit
** Two free hours of CLE credit.