Criminal Defense Training Academy

October 8-9 and November 12-13, 2021 

  WSBA Performance Guidelines for Criminal Defense Representation  

Trial Resources

•  Trial Advocacy Manual
•  Eight Principles for Effective Closing Arguments
•  Tools for Specific Topics in Closing Arguments
•  The Joy of Jury Duty

First Appearance Advocacy

•  Presentation - Francis Adewale
• Defender Resource Packet - Defender Advocacy for Pretrial Relase

Investigation

•  Investigation Request Form
•  Investigation Training Manual
•  Public Records Act
•  PRA: Getting the Stuff the Prosecutor Did Not Give You - and May Not Know About

Collateral Consequences

•  Collateral Consequences Resources - Links for Research
•  LFO Calculator
•  WDA Immigration Intake Form
•  WDA - Defender Protocol for Immigrant Clients

Client Communication

• Building and Maintaining a Strong Attorney-Client Relationship
• Effective Communication Tips 

Clients with Limited English Proficiency

•  Top 10 Tips for Attorneys
•  Checklist for Interprerter Cases
•  The Right to Remain Silent
•  Every Word Matters

Clients with Mental Disabilities

•  Representing Clients with Cognitive Impairments in Treatment Courts
• Competency Questions
• Serious Mental Illness and Management Techniques
• Communicating with a Loved One who has a Mental Illness 
• When Your Client Needs an Accommodation to Access Court
• Clients with Trauma and PTSD - Tips for Effective Communication
• Representing Clients with Intellectual Disability - DD or TBI 

Race Bias / Litigating Racial and Ethnic Disparities

•  Raising Race - Presentation
•  OPD's Disproportionality Advocacy Page - Articles and Resources for Challenging Racial Disparities
•  Case Law to Support Racial Justice Arguments
•  Racial Trauma Bibliography
•  Implicit Bias Studies
•  Bibliography on Stereotype Threat
•  Analysis of Racial Disparities in Police Stops
•  Bias-Based Motion Strategies
•  Thurgood Marshall: Cases Argued
•  Legal Defense Fund - Thurgood Marshall Institute
•  Press Release: Arian Noma Letter of Resignation Okanogan County
•  State v. Quijas
•  WA Supreme Court Letter June 4, 2020
•  APA Guide to Writing About Personal Characteristics without Bias
•  "I Don't See Race" Denies Racial Identity
•  Microaggressions: Clarification, Evidence, and Impact
•  Unlearning: Kindness, Color Blindness and Racism  
•  "Colorblindness" Complicates Race-Related Conversations
•  Do Color Blindness and Multiculturalism Remedy or Foster Discrimination?  

Standards for Indigent Defense

• WA Supreme Court Standards for Indigent Defense
• Certification of Compliance
• Caseload Calculators