Forensic Mental Health Teaching Day

Reflections on Justice, Mental Illness and the Death Penalty:   A Teaching Day

Friday, April 4, 2008

12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Opalka Gallery

The Sage Colleges

Albany Campus

This Teaching Day is sponsored by The Sage Colleges’ Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Graduate Program in Forensic Mental Health; the Department of Psychology; and the Capital Punishment Research Initiative.

Schedule of Presentations

Session I:  12:00 noon – 12:50 pm

Police interrogation of persons with mental illness: False confessions and actual innocence.

Allison Redlich, Ph.D., Policy Research Associates

Discussant: William McIntyre, Ph.D., Director, Public Safety Psychology, PLLC

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Session II: 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm

Capital Defense Work in State and Federal Cases

Alex Bunin, J.D., Federal Defenders Office

Terence L. Kindlon, J.D., Law Offices of Kindlon & Shanks

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Session III: 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm

The Mitigation Expert: Reflections on the Process and What Helps a Client's Case

Marla Brassard, Ph.D., Teacher’s College, Columbia University

Discussant: Cecilia Alphonso, MSW, Alphonso Associates

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Session IV: 3:00 pm– 3:50 pm

Readings from Dead Man Walking

David Baecker, Sage Colleges Theatre Department

Mary Jane Hanson

David Gould

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