Championing Pretrial Release With the PTRA

This webinar will train you to advocate for your clients' release using the Pretrial Risk Assessment score (PTRA). Professor Alison Siegler will describe how we can use the PTRA to demonstrate that every single client presents a very low risk of failure-to-appear and a very low risk of reoffending, making the PTRA an unexpectedly strong resource for our pretrial release advocacy. In this webinar, you will learn how to argue the PTRA score during your detention hearings, how to rebut the government's efforts to minimize the PTRA's predictions, and how the PTRA can be an evidence-based tool for convincing judges to release more people on bond. The presentation (50 minutes) will be followed by a Q&A session (10 minutes).

Presenter:

Alison Siegler is the Founding Director of the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic (FCJC) at the University of Chicago Law School, the first legal clinic devoted to representing indigent clients charged with federal felonies, pursuing impact litigation in federal court, and engaging in systemic reform of the federal criminal system. Professor Siegler's clinic recently published the first comprehensive national investigation of federal pretrial detention, Freedom Denied: How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis. Professor Siegler has also testified before Congress about the need for federal bond reform and also trained hundreds of federal magistrate judges, hundreds of Pretrial Services Officers, and thousands of AFDs and CJA lawyers on the Bail Reform Act. Professor Siegler's clinic previously garnered national recognition for its contributions to groundbreaking federal racial discrimination impact litigation in federal "stash house" cases. Before founding the FCJC, Professor Siegler served as a Staff Attorney with the Federal Defender Program in Chicago, a Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center's Criminal Justice Clinic, and a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman in Chicago. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale College, earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, and holds an LL.M. from Georgetown.

CLE Information:

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