AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
JUSTICE KENNEDY COMMISSION
Schedule of Invited Witnesses
George Washington University Law School
2000 H Street, NW
The Moot Courtroom
Washington, DC
November 12, 13, 14, 2003 Hearings
Wednesday, November 12
9:00 am - 10:30 am - What are the Objectives of Punishment?
James Q. Whitman (Yale Law School)
Joseph Lehman (Corrections Department Secretary - Olympia, Washington)
Theodore McKee (U.S. Court of Appeals, 3d Circuit)
Richard Frase(University of Minnesota Law School)
Anne Morrison Piehl (Harvard Univ., Kennedy School of Gov’t)
Robert Bernstein (Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law)
10::30 am - 10:45 am - Break
10:45 am - 12:30 pm - Who Decides Sentences?
Douglas Berman (Ohio State University College of Law)
Michael Horowitz(Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP - Washington, DC)
Deanell Tacha (Judge - U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit)
Nancy Gertner(Judge – US District Court – Massachusetts)
Paul Rosenzweig (Heritage Foundation)
Larry Kupers (Federal Defender Service, Washington, D.C.)
Kent Scheidegger (Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA)
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm - Lunch Break
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Should There Be a Second Look at Sentences? (Mid-Course Corrections)
Jeremy Travis (Urban Institute)
James Austin (George Washington University)
Daniel Kobil (Capital University Law School)
Patricia Cushwa (Maryland Parole Board)
David Zlotnick (American University Law School)
3:30 pm -3:45 pm - Break
3:45 pm -5:30 pm Can Rehabilitation Succeed and Reentry Be Successful?
Reginald Wilkinson (Ohio Department of Corrections)
AT Wall (Rhode Island Department of Corrections)
Paul Quander (Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, DC)
Susan Galbraith (Our Place DC)
Stanley Richards(Fortune Society)
Thursday, November 13, 2003
9:00 am - 9:45 am - What is the Impact of Drug Crimes on Incarceration?
Paul Hofer(U.S. Sentencing Commission)
Allen Beck (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Carmen Hernandez [or other NACDL representative]
9:45 am - 10:30 am - What Works as to Drug Crimes (Incarceration)
Julie Stewart (Families Against Mandatory Minimums)
Hon. Sterling Johnson (U.S. District Court, E.D. NY)
Steven Belenko (Treatment Research Institute - Univ. of Pennsylvania)
[DOJ rep]
10:30 am - 10:45 am - Break
10:45 am - 11:45 am - What Works as to Drug Crimes (Prison Alternatives)
Richard Gebelein (Superior Court Judge - Delaware)
Morris Hoffman (Denver District Court Judge)
Douglas Marlowe(Treatment Research Institute - Univ. of Pennsylvania)
William Ritter (District Attorney - Denver)
Ann Swern (Assistant District Attorney - Brooklyn, NY)
11:45 am - 12:45 pm – View From Inside
Jan Warren (College and Community Fellowship – CUNY Graduate Center)
Alfreda Robinson (Maryland Justice Coalition)
Joe Bogan (retired BOP warden)
Roger Groot (Washington and Lee Law School)
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm - Lunch Break
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - What are States Doing to Reform Sentencing?
Steven Chanenson(Villanova University School of Law)
Richard Kern (Virginia Sentencing Commission)
Dan Wilhelm (Vera Institute)
Ronald Wright (Wake Forest University School of Law)
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm - Break
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm - How Effective is Federal Sentencing?
James Felman (Kynes, Markman and Felman - Tampa, Florida)
Kathleen M. Williams (Federal Public Defender, Miami, Florida)
John Steer (United States Sentencing Commission)
Hon. Paul G. Cassell (U.S. District Court, District of Utah)
Hon. John Martin(former U.S. Dist. Judge / Debevoise & Plimpton, NY, NY)
[DOJ rep]
Friday, November 14
9:00 am - 10:15am Racial Disparity - Overview of the Problem, the Causes, and the Effects
Marc Mauer (The Sentencing Project)
Wade Henderson (The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights)
Prof. Katheryn Russell (Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, University of Florida, Levin College
of Law)
10:15 am - 11:30 am Police and Racial Profiling
Prof. David Harris, University of Toledo Law School
Glenn Ivey, State’s Attorney for Prince George’s County, Maryland
Vanita Gupta, Staff Attorney, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Charles Moose, former Chief of Police, Montgomery County, Maryland
11:30 am -- 11:45 am - Break
11:45 am - 1:15 pm Race, Prosecution and Sentencing Laws
Judge Ernestine Gray, Louisiana Juvenile Court Judge
Rep. Michael Lawlor, Connecticut State Legislature
Nkechi Taifa, Open Society Institute
Vincent Schiraldi, Justice Policy Institute<