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Thursday, November 1 • 2:15pm - 3:45pm
Mentoring in Public Defense

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The panel will discuss the history and future of public defense mentoring in Texas, beginning with the creation of the Future Appointed Counsel Training Program (FACT) in the Harris County Public Defender’s Office in 2012 and its expansion into a statewide program funded and overseen by the Texas Indigent Defense Commission and the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association in 2018. The program sends lawyers with less than three years’ practice to Gideon’s Promise, a nationally recognized public defense training program, and then pairs the lawyers with seasoned criminal defense lawyers in their legal community back in Texas. FACT was recognized as an exceptional defense program by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants.
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Malia Brink

Counsel for Indigent Defense, ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense
Malia N. Brink has spent 20 years working on criminal justice reform issues with a focus on public defense reform. She currently serves as the counsel for indigent defense to the ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense (ABA SCLAID). Brink also serves as the deputy... Read More →
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Genesis Draper

Assistant Public Defender, Harris County Public Defender's Office
Genesis Draper is an assistant public defender with the Harris County Public Defender’s Office in Houston. Before joining Harris County, she was an assistant federal public defender for the Southern District of Texas in Houston and an assistant public defender with the Metropolitan... Read More →
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Jonathan Rapping

President/Founder, Gideon's Promise
Jonathan Rapping is the founder and president of Gideon’s Promise, an organization dedicated to training and supporting public defenders in an effort to build a movement to transform criminal justice in America. He is also a law professor at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School... Read More →
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Drew Willey

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Sarah Wood

Assistant Public Defender, Harris County Public Defender's Office
Sarah V. Wood is an attorney in the Harris County Public Defender’s Office and is board-certified in Criminal Appellate Law. She developed and administers several prominent criminal defense training programs. The Future Appointed Counsel Training (FACT) Program is a highly competitive... Read More →

Thursday November 1, 2018 2:15pm - 3:45pm CDT
Westchester Westin Galleria, 3rd Level
  Public Defense

Attendees (11)