We invite Arizona immigration defense practitioners, both new and experienced, to a webinar on emerging issues in criminal and immigration law and their application to Arizona convictions and immigration proceedings. One of the key defense strategies in crim/imm cases is the "categorical approach," often referred to as the rules governing divisible statutes and the record of conviction.

The webinar will explain selected defense tools based on the categorical approach, especially in light of Nijhawan v. Holder, 557 U.S. ___ (July 15, 2009). We will also teach defense strategies for convictions charged as crimes involving moral turpitude. This will be an interactive webinar featuring a discussion between our panel of experts, with ample time for Q & A. We will discuss some advanced defense strategies, which we will provide text to review before the webinar.

Deadline to register: 9/18/09
1.0 MCLE

Presenters:
Kathy Brady, ILRC Senior Staff Attorney
Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; family immigration; and trial skills. She is the primary author of ILRC's Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit (formerly California Criminal Law and Immigration), and for many years was co-author of the section on defending noncitizens in the CEB manual, California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice. She is a co-author of the Arizona Quick Reference Guide to Immigration Consequences of Convictions, and also the author of the California Reference Guide. She is a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. Kathy authored briefs in key Ninth Circuit cases on immigration and crimes, and argued Lujan-Armendariz v. Ashcroft. In 2007, she received the Carol King award for advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

Vikram K. Badrinath practices immigration law in Tucson, with a focus towards deportation and the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.
Vikram is a frequent speaker and writer on crimes and immigration, as well as other immigration law topics. He has served as a mentor for the American Immigration Lawyers Association since the program's inception, is on the Board of Supervising Attorneys for the Asylum Program of Southern Arizona, and received an award for his work as a participating attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's, BIA Pro Bono Project. He has argued important immigration cases before the Ninth Circuit, most recently writing the amicus brief on behalf of AILA in Estrada-Espinoza v. Mukasey, 525 F.3d 821, 822. (9th Cir. 2008) (en banc). See www.vkblaw.com.

Kara Hartzler, Legal Director and Criminal Immigration Consultant at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP)
Kara is the author of What Will Happen to Me? A Guide for Immigrants in the Arizona Criminal Justice System and co-author of the Arizona Quick Reference Guide to Immigration Consequences of Convictions. In February 2008, she testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on the detention and deportation of U.S. citizens in ICE custody. Before coming to FIRRP, Kara worked at an asylum clinic on the U.S./Mexico border, with migrant farmworkers, at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, among indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico, and with human rights delegations to Iraq and El Salvador. See www.firrp.org.

Moderator:
Angie Junck, ILRC Staff Attorney
Part of Angie's work at the ILRC focuses on the relationship between immigration and criminal law. She is a co-author of ILRC's publication, Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit, and the Arizona Quick Reference Guide to Immigration Consequences of Convictions. Her efforts to mitigate the difficult immigration consequences for criminal convictions of immigrants is at the core of the ILRC's Defending Immigrants Project, which assists public defenders and the Immigrant Justice Network, a project to build a movement to shift public perception of immigrants in the criminal justice system. Angie is a co-chair of the Detention Watch Network's Public Awareness Committee and is on the Advisory Board of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Prior to joining the ILRC, she worked on post-conviction relief for immigrants at the Law Offices of Norton Tooby and advocated on behalf of incarcerated survivors of domestic violence as the co-coordinator of Free Battered Women and a member of the Habeas Project.


NOTE: Registration is limited to one registrant per connection. We only provide MCLE credit to those who have registered and paid the full fee. All participants must register by the deadline. In order to receive the special webinar dial-in number and weblink, please make sure to provide us with your most commonly used e-mail address. The ILRC will e-mail registrant with the special webinar dial-in number, weblink, and necessary materials a few days before the webinar date.