This webinar will discuss advanced strategies for records collection in capital cases and strategies for division of labor in PD offices when there are investigators and mitigation specialists working on a case. Topics covered will include when to use a release, court order or subpoena, when in person versus remote searches are appropriate, timelines for how long records collection takes, how to get records from closed institutions and much more.

Presenters:

Stacie Brown, Mitigation Specialist, ACLU Capital Punishment Project, Durham, NC

Marty Aronson, Senior Investigator, Allegheny County Public Defenders, Pittsburgh, PA

Alexis Climes, Manager of Investigations, Allegheny County Public Defenders, Pittsburgh, PA