Meetings Prior to Judicial Conference
Tuesday, June 13, 2000
9:00 am Joint Attorney Standards
8:00 am Registration
Wednesday, June 14, 2000
9:00 am Jury Standards
10:00 am Juvenile Policy Board
1:00 pm Sports Afternoon
4:30 pm Continuing Judicial Education Commission
6:00 pm Council of Presiding Judges
6:30 pm Sports Night Buffet
Thursday, June 15, 2000
7:00 am Registration
7:00 am Breakfast Buffet
7:00 am District Judges Association Meeting
8:15 am Judicial Conference
Welcome (Justice Dale V. Sandstrom, Chair)
Roll Call
8:30 am Allan D. Sobel, Executive Director, American Judicature Society
Topic: "The American Judicature Society; Judicial Salaries; and Judicial Independence"
9:00 am Honorable Kevin Burke, Drug Court Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Topic: "A Drug Court Judge's Perspective"
9:30 am Break
9:45 am Amy Vorachek, Crime Victim Coordinator
Parole & Probation
and
Charles R. Placek, Program Manager/Interstate Compact Coordinator
Parole & Probation
Topic: "Crime Victim Issues"
10:15 am Honorable Lee A. Christofferson, Presiding Judge, Northeast Judicial District
Topic: "Grand Jury Lessons Learned"
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Jean R. Mullen, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Attorney General
Topic: "Civil Confinement of Sexual Predators"
11:30 am Law School Luncheon
1:30 pm Reconvene Judicial Conference
Business Meeting (Justice Dale V. Sandstrom, Chair)
3:00 pm General Assembly
6:30 pm ND Bar Foundation Reception
7:30 pm Banquet
Friday, June 16, 2000
7:30 am Breakfast Buffet
9:00 am Evidence & Opinion Testimony