9:00 a.m.  – 9:30 a.m.

Check-in and Coffee

9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

• Introductory Remarks by NACDL President Martín Sabelli

• Opening Remarks on the Trial Penalty; Clark Neily (Cato), Brett Tolman (Right on Crime), Vikrant Reddy (CKI), and Cynthia Roseberry (ACLU)

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Panel One on Launching and Sustaining a National Campaign

• Cornell Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School – Moderator

• James Esseks, ACLU HIV/LGBT Project

• Lisa Foster, Fees & Fines Justice Center

• David Safavian, American Conservative Union

• Laura Porter, 8th Amendment Project

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.  

Lunch, with Video Presentation from Fair Trials

1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

Panel Two on Launching and Sustaining a National Campaign

• Norman L. Reimer – Moderator

• Stu Loeser, Stu Loeser & Co.

• ​Michael Steel, Hamilton Place Strategies

• Gisel Aceves, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)

2:15 – 2:30 p.m.

How Advocates, Elected Officials & Philanthropists can Join Together to End the Trial Penalty – Howard S. Jonas, President, Howard S. and Deborah Jonas Foundation

2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Solutions Panel

• Lucian Dervan, Belmont University College of Law; ABA Plea Bargaining Task Force – Moderator

• Kevin Ring, FAMM

• Somil Trivedi, ACLU

• Lars Trautman, Right on Crime

• Diane Goldstein, Law Enforcement Action Partnership

3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 

 Break

4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Race and the Trial Penalty Panel

• Rick Jones, Neighborhood Defender Service – Moderator

• Cornell Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School

• Cynthia Roseberry, ACLU

• Robert Rose, Advocate

​5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

Judicial Conversation about Judicial Complicity and the Trial Penalty

• Vikrant Reddy, Stand Together - Moderator

• Judge John Gleeson, U.S. District Court, E.D.N.Y. (former) (remote)

• Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams, Superior Courts of Georgia

• Judge Kevin Sharp, U.S. District Court, M.D. Tenn. (former)

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 

Trial Penalty Research and Report Efforts Panel

• Nate Pysno, NACDL – Moderator

• Susan Walsh, Chair of NYSACDL Trial Penalty Task Force

• Jacquie Goodman, CACJ Trial Penalty Task Force

• Lucian Dervan, Belmont University College of Law

• Brandon Garrett, Duke Law

10:15 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.

Media Panel: "Reporting on the Trial Penalty"

• Martín Sabelli – Moderator

• Carrie Johnson, NPR (remote)

• C.J. Ciaramella, Reason

• Josie Duffy Rice, freelance; former President of The Appeal (remote)

11:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Keynote Discussion

• Andrew Crespo, Premal Dharia, and Brittany White, the Institute to End Mass Incarceration

• Robert Rose, Advocate

12:45 p.m. –1:45 p.m.    

Lunch

1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 

Panel on Comparative Legal Systems and the Trial Penalty

• Rebecca Shaeffer, Fair Trials Americas - Moderator

• Jenia Turner, SMU (remote)

• Stephen Andersson, U.S. State Department

• Laure Baudrihaye-Gérard, Legal Director, Fair Trials (Europe) (remote)

• Máximo Langer, UCLA School of Law (remote)

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  

NEXT STEPS: Engaged/Guided Discussion – Opportunity for all to weigh in and participate to inform core groups subsequent preparation of the platform for the movement.