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Criminal Law Section   Juvenile Practice Part 1: Basics   Credit(s): 1 Legal Specialization in Criminal Law 1 Participatory MCLE Credits Course Number: CL_8-14-18 Original Program Date: August 14, 2018 Duration: 1 hour Access: Available for 3 months after purchase Date: August 14, 2018 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)

 

Description:

 

California State Bar Guidelines require 12 hours of Juvenile Training before representing a minor in juvenile court.  Part 1, of the Criminal Law Section Series on Juvenile Practice, will explain what to expect when handling a case in juvenile court; how juvenile court differs from adult criminal court; and the specific language/codes/procedures used. What every lawyer who represents minors in juvenile court should know.

 

Faculty:

 

Mark Wynn

Mark Wynn is a senior trial attorney for the Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender’s Office. He graduated from UC San Diego in 1993 and California Western Law School in 1996.  After graduation, he worked legal affairs in the entertainment field, including MGM and Paramount Studios. In 2000, he became a Deputy Public Defender in Los Angeles. As a public defender, he tried numerous cases from misdemeanors to felonies, including death penalty cases.  He currently represents children in delinquency matters at the Inglewood Juvenile Court.  He has lectured on jury selection in capital cases at the PD/APD Capital Case Seminar and to law students at UCLA Law School.  He has volunteered as a coach and judge with the Constitutional Rights Foundation Mock Trial and as a judge for the NBTA Tournament of Champions Law School Mock Trial.

 

Maureen Pacheco, Moderator

Maureen Pacheco is the Trainer for the Juvenile Division of the Alternate Public Defenders Office in Los Angeles and handles the office’s juvenile life without parole resentencing cases.  After graduation from Georgetown Law School in 1986, she became a public defender. From 2010-2013, Maureen was the Assistant Director at Loyola Law School’s Center for Juvenile Law and Policy, where she cofounded and taught the Juvenile Innocence and Fair Sentencing Clinic. She is the cofounder of the Pacific Juvenile Defender Center’s Amicus group and is the juvenile legislative liaison for the California Public Defenders Association. She authored the first bill in the nation to provide for the automatic sealing of juvenile records and has testified as a juvenile law expert before various committees of the California Legislature. Maureen serves on the Advisory Board for the Pacific Juvenile Defender Center, is Chair of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Juvenile Justice Committee, and co-author of Guidelines for Los Angeles Delinquency Practitioners.  She was awarded the Juvenile Defender of the Year in 2015 by the Pacific Juvenile Defender Center and was honored as 2017 Criminal Defense Attorney of the Year by the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

 

 

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