This program covers basic federal sentencing including plea agreements, interactions with the US Probation Department, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, and drafting sentencing memoranda and sentencing objections.

Every year brings changes to criminal law. The 2018 legislative session made some major changes in criminal law that went into effect on New Year’s Day. This webinar will discuss many of them, providing some analysis into the reasons for the changes and how they will affect both prosecutors and defenders. Among the changes discussed will be the changes in juvenile practice affecting who can and cannot be prosecuted, the advent of mental health diversion, and some changes in the Rules of Professional Conduct.Additionally, since the laws have been in effect for several weeks, there will be some discussion about effects that are being seen up and down the state in the early days of these changes.

This webinar will provide you the basic sentencing rules you need to be able to handle most sentencing situations. You will learn about sentencing triads, the Three Strikes Law, how to calculate determinate sentences with multiple consecutive counts, how to know where the client will serve their sentence, and whether they will be supervised afterwards.

California felony sentencing law includes various sentence enhancements for: 1) crimes that involve the use of a gun; 2) crimes that involve members of a street gang; and 3) sexual offenses under certain circumstances. In many cases, the sentence on the enhancement is greater than that for the underlying crime being enhanced.  This webinar will discuss the firearm use enhancements, gang enhancements, mandatory consecutive sentencing rules in sex cases and the “One-Strike” sex statutes.

This program offers 1 participatory MCLE credit; 1 Elimination of Bias; plus legal specialization in Legal Ethics. You must register in advance to participate. The webinar will address jury challenges, the voir dire process, peremptory and for cause challenges, Batson-Wheeler motions, and jury selection techniques, including questionnaires. The webinar will offer general and legal specialization credit,…