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SUMMARY:Just Juries - Balancing the Scales of the Jury Box
DESCRIPTION:Join The Juror Project’s Director\, William C. Snowden\, Esq. and Deputy Director\, Porsha-Shaf’on Venable\, Esq.\, as they educate our people about jury service and jury nullification.  Through their work\, these amazing advocates “aim to change the makeup of juries to better represent the American population and the communities most commonly accused.”  They do  “this through community and public education about jury eligibility and the jury selection process and the power jurors hold in America’s high stakes criminal justice system.” \n\n\n\nCome learn how to better advocate for balancing the scales in the jury box for true justice for all.   REGISTER TODAY! Registration is FREE for NAPD members. \n\n\n\n\nWilliam C. Snowden (he/him/his) is the Director of The Juror Project and a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. His work is grounded in a simple truth: exclusion is not accidental. \n\n\n\nAs a former public defender in New Orleans\, he represented people forced to stand trial in courtrooms designed to convict them. He later served as Executive Director of the Vera Institute of Justice in Louisiana\, where he advanced efforts to eliminate money bail\, reduce jail populations\, and shift power toward communities. \n\n\n\nThrough public education\, legal scholarship\, and grassroots organizing\, Will challenges the myths of fairness that surround the jury system. He exposes how civic participation has been weaponized to protect institutions rather than people. His work does not ask for faith in the system. It calls for clear vision\, informed resistance\, and collective presence in the places where decisions are made about our lives. \n\n\n\nLearn more about William and the Juror Project here. \n\n\n\n\nPorsha-Shaf’on Venable\, Esq. is the Deputy Director of The Juror Project\, where she supports programming\, strategy\, and partnerships aimed at increasing civic participation and dismantling exclusion in the jury system.\n\n\nA licensed attorney and social worker based in the Bronx\, she brings a background in public defense\, forensic social work\, and legal education. She previously served with The Bronx Defenders and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem\, where she held roles as a staff attorney\, forensic social worker\, and team leader. Porsha holds a J.D. from California Western School of Law and an M.S.W. from NYU. She has trained public defenders and legal advocates across the country on jury selection\, jury nullification\, and trial strategy through platforms like the Black Public Defender Association and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. \n\n\n\nHer work is rooted in building community power through legal knowledge and public access to justice while simultaneously co-creating a world that prioritizes accountability over punishment. \n\n\n\nLearn more about Porsha-Shaf’on and the Juror Project here.
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SUMMARY:Antiracist Expert Evidence: An Exploration of Racism
DESCRIPTION:Antiracist Expert Evidence: An Exploration of Racism & Its Relevance in Criminal Defense Litigation\nDemonstrating the influence of racism is vital to the practice of criminal defense\, yet many attorneys do not know how to prove racism in court. Visiting Assistant Professor Asees Bhasin\, Esq. and Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose\, Esq. surveyed over seven hundred criminal-defense attorneys across the United States\, and nearly half had never heard of expert witnesses testifying or submitting written reports on racism—what we call “antiracist expert evidence.” This finding would be unremarkable if such experts were unhelpful\, but nearly ninety percent of surveyed attorneys expected that antiracist expert evidence would benefit their criminal-defense practices. \nIn this webinar\, they will present the findings of the article\, Antiracist Expert Evidence\, published in the Yale Law Journal in 2025. This article conceptualizes\, categorizes\, and instantiates six different expressions\, manifestations\, or mechanisms of racism relevant to criminal defense: (1) racist affiliations and views; (2) racist language\, sounds\, and imagery; (3) racial stereotypes; (4) racial disparities; (5) implicit racial bias; and (6) the impact of racism on health and behavior. It also analyzes survey results showing criminal-defense attorneys’ levels of familiarity with antiracist expert evidence\, their perceptions of its utility\, and the barriers they anticipate to its introduction. This article then examines these barriers and identifies means of overcoming them. \nThis webinar will cover all of these facets and facilitate a discussion about the use of such evidence in criminal defense practice. You don’t want to miss it! \nQuestions and concerns? Contact BGT\, Webinar Lead\, with any questions and/or concerns at Brittanygt@publicdefenders.us. \n\nProfessor Jasmine Gonzales Rose is a leading evidence scholar whose work examines how race\, language\, and racism shape legal proof and influence who can serve as factfinders in the justice system. Rooted in critical race studies and drawing from epistemology and sociolinguistics\, her research explores and reimagines evidence law to enhance fairness\, accuracy\, and equity. \nShe is Professor of Law and an award-winning teacher at Boston University School of Law\, where she currently teaches Evidence\, Criminal Law\, and LatinXs and the Law\, and previously served as Associate Dean for Equity\, Justice\, and Engagement. Before joining Boston University\, she taught for nearly a decade at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. \nA graduate of Harvard Law School\, Professor Gonzales Rose clerked for Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Héctor M. Laffitte of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. She serves on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee on Evidence Law and has led antiracist legal policy initiatives both within academia and the broader community. \nShe has served on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Pittsburgh and the Abolitionist Law Center\, the latter founded by her former students. \nAsees Bhasin is a visiting assistant professor of law and Donald Gaines Murray Fellow. She teaches in the first-year Lawyering Program. Her research focuses on critical evidence law\, race and the law\, reproductive justice\, and the intersections between these fields. She is particularly curious about how seemingly neutral rules of procedure contribute to the marginalization of people and communities along race and gender lines. \nPreviously\, Professor Bhasin worked at Boston University\, where her research focused on the rules of evidence\, and the use of expert witnesses to prove racism in criminal trials. Before that\, she was a senior research fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale University where she researched and wrote on health law and racism. She began her legal career as a Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington\, D.C. where her advocacy was centered on reproductive rights\, and maternal and infant health. \nProfessor Bhasin’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal\, the Indiana Health Law Review\, the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology\, and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. She received a joint JD-LLB degree from Georgetown University Law Center and King’s College London. She was born and raised in New Delhi\, India.
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