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Forensic Science Training for Capital Litigators
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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
The purpose of the Capital Case Litigation Initiative (CCLI) is to provide high-quality training and technical assistance on death penalty issues to prosecutors and defense counsel who litigate death penalty cases. This program focuses on ensuring quality representation in death penalty cases and trials. The goals of CCLI are to increase the number of capital litigation attorneys trained in death penalty cases, and to ensure that defense counsel and prosecutors have the most up-to-date and comprehensive information available to them on death penalty litigation.
Stetson University will train defense counsel and prosecutors. The College of Law will deliver training sessions focusing on scientific evidence issues for capital litigators. Litigators will be taught how to obtain and use scientific evidence and how to obtain expert witnesses and respond to opposing ones. Registration will only be open to attorneys from states with capital punishment and preference will be given to litigators whose law school education did not include an in-depth study on scientific evidence. The trainings will be given to attorneys who practice in state and capital punishment. NCA/NCF
