Total Credits: 3.5 CLE, 1 Ethics
This seminar is being postponed to a new date. Registration will re-open when a new date is determined.
This seminar will review significant cases from the Court’s completed term, provide a background of previous decisions, comment on individual justices’ perspectives, and preview petitions for certiorari for the upcoming term.
Chair:
Judge George Anagnost, Presiding Judge, Peoria Municipal Court
Faculty:
Prof. Paul Bender, Arizona State University-Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Alane Breland, Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community
Nicholas Klingerman, Arizona Attorney General's Office
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is presiding judge for the Peoria Municipal Court where has been presiding judge for several years. He has participated in various continuing education presentations and has been published in various law journals.
attended the ASU School of Law and upon graduation clerked for Arizona Supreme Court Vice-Chief Justice Stanley Feldman. He has been a senior trial attorney for the Federal Public Defender’s Office and the Maricopa Legal Defender’s Office. Mr. McWhirter is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar on constitutional law, immigration law, and he is a certified criminal specialist. Mr. McWhirter has been a visiting law professor in Chile, taught trial practice in various Latin American Countries, and testified before the Venezuelan constitutional convention forming the new Venezuelan Constitution. In 2010, Mr. McWhirter lived in El Salvador and administered an $11M USAID project to re-develop that country’s court, police, and legal system. Mr. McWhirter currently is a supervising attorney at the ASU Alumni Law Group.
His book on the history of the bill of rights, Quills, Bills, and Stills: An Annotated, Illustrated, and Illuminated History of the Bill of Rights (ABA Press 2015) will be out in hardbound this fall and in paperback in the summer of 2015.
is the Chief Prosecutor for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Arizona. Ms. Breland received her B.A. cum laude from the University of Alabama, where she also obtained her Juris Doctor, receiving the Bench and Bar Outstanding Senior Award and the Dean Thomas W. Christopher Award. She serves on the Executive Board of Directors for the MISS Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides counseling and other services to families experiencing the death of a child.
is the Training and Post Conviction Division Chief Counsel at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. Nick is a career prosecutor who has specialized in appellate litigation, prosecuting notable cases such as State v. Goudeau, 239 Ariz. 421 (2016), and State v. Pandeli, 242 Ariz. 175 (2017). Before joining the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, Nick was the Chief Counsel for the Arizona Attorney General's Southern Arizona White Collar and Criminal Enterprise Section in Tucson, where he oversaw prosecutions involving complex economic frauds, illegal enterprises, and racketeering.
Nick received his JD from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of law in 2010, where he was the Case Notes Editor for the Arizona Law Review and graduated summa cum laude and Order of the Coif. He was later a part-time professor of practice at the College of Law from 2018 until 2022, teaching sentencing law and supervising the Attorney General Prosecution Clinic. After graduating from law school, Nick clerked the Honorable Maurice Portley in the Arizona Court of Appeals.
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