Judicial Conference

Judicial Conference

November 19-20, 2012
Seven Seas, Mandan, North Dakota



Monday, November 19, 2012

9:00 a.m. Judicial Conference Convenes (Pier7) 
Call to Order
 Justice Carol Ronning Kapsner
Chair, Judicial Conference

 Roll Call
 Sally A. Holewa
 Executive Secretary, Judicial Conference
9:10 a.m. Business Meeting of the Judicial Conference (Pier 7)
 Report of the Committee on Legislation

 Other Business
§Review and discuss legislation proposed by
Administrative Council
§Report on activities of Court Services Administration Committee regarding assistance for self-represented litigants
§Supreme Court proposal for new judgeships
§Discussion on the 24/7 Sobriety Program

 Adjourn
10:00 a.m. Human Trafficking for North Dakota Judges (2 CJE) (Pier 7)
 Professor Terry Coonan, Florida State University
 Center for the Advancement of Human Rights
 William Brunson, National Judicial College
11:00 a.m. Break (Pier 7)

11:15 a.m. Human Trafficking for North Dakota Judges (cont.) (Pier 7)

12:15 p.m. Lunch (Nautilus)

1:15 p.m. Interstate Compact for Adult Offenders (1.5 CJE) (Pier 7)
Rick Masters, Legal Counsel
National Center for Interstate Compacts
Charles Placek, Interstate Compact Coordinator, ND DOCR
 
2:45 p.m. Break (Pier 7)

3:00 p.m. Evidence Based Practices at the North Dakota Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation: Applying the Risk Need Responsivity Model (1.5 CJE) (Pier 7)
 Lisa A. Peterson, Ph.D., Clinical Director, ND DOCR
 Karianne Wolfer, Director of Correctional Practices, ND DOCR
4:30 p.m. Adjourn

7:00- 9:00 p.m. Law & Literature (2 CJE- ethics) (Cutty Sark)
  Patti Alleva, The Rodney & Betty Webb Professor of Law
 UND School of Law, Grand Forks, ND
 (Hosted by Daniel Crothers, Carol Kapsner, Mary Maring,
 Dale Sandstrom, and Gerald VandeWalle)


Tuesday, November 20, 2012

7:30 a.m. North Dakota Judges Association Breakfast Meeting
 (Cutty Sark)

8:30 a.m. The Intersection of Traumatic Brain Injury and the Justice System (1 CJE) (Pier 7)
Susan H. Wagner, LSW, Division of Mental Health and
 Substance Abuse Services, DHS
Robin Rosendahl, Protection and Advocacy
Richard Ott, Executive Director,
Head Injury Association of North Dakota
Rebecca Quinn, Program Director,
Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
9:30 a.m. Break (Pier 7)

9:45 a.m. Interviewing Children in Court Cases (2 CJE) (Pier 7)
 Angela Cavett, Ph.D.
 Child and Adolescent Psychologist
10:45 a.m. Break (Pier 7)

11:00 a.m. Interviewing Children in Court Cases (Cont.) (Pier 7)

Noon Adjourn