About the Seminar
Bringing together top criminal law practitioners and speakers from throughout the state, the Annual Criminal Practice in South Carolina seminar is back for its 24th year to provide you with the very best review of substantive and procedural criminal law, ethical and strategic considerations for criminal law practitioners, and issues related to immigrant crime victims, witnesses, and defendants.
South Carolina speakers serving on this year’s distinguished faculty are Amie L. Clifford, Salley W. Elliott, Honorable John Cannon Few, Honorable Ernest A. Finney, III, Honorable Thomas E. Pope, Patricia S. Ravenhorst, Andrew J. Savage, III, Barbara M. Seymour,Tara Dawn Shurling, and Hervery B. O. Young.
In addition to presentations from these South Carolina lawyers, this year’s program will include presentations by noted Arizona criminal defense lawyer Robert J. McWhirter, author of the American Bar Association’s publications, The Criminal Lawyer’s Guide to Immigration Law: Questions and Answers, 2nd Ed. (2006), and The Citizenship Flowchart (2007). In Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), the Supreme Court of the United States extensively quoted from Mr. McWhirter’s book in Justice Alito’s concurring opinion. Padilla holds that the Sixth Amendment requires defense counsel to inform a client whether his or her guilty plea carries a risk of deportation. The immigration consequences of criminal convictions have become progressively more severe over time and, after Padilla v. Kentucky, the duties of both lawyers and judges to warn aliens of collateral consequences are more pronounced. Mr. McWhirter’s talk explores those duties and, using Dante’s Rings of Hell as an organizational device, outlines the different immigration consequences for aliens for given criminal convictions.
- Bills, Quills, and Stills: An Annotated, Illustrated, and Illuminated History of the Bill Of Rights (published by the ABA in November 2014).
If you are looking for a criminal law program with substantive materials, practical insights on the impact of recent appellate opinions and legislation, and a faculty that is second to none, then the 24th Annual Criminal Practice in South Carolina CLE program from the South Carolina Bar-CLE Division is the seminar for you!
Seminar Agenda
Baby Don’t Be Cruel: Just What’s So Cruel and Unusual about the History of the Eighth Amendment
Robert J. McWhirter, Certified Specialist in Criminal Law
Supervising Attorney, Arizona State University Alumni Law Group
Significant Appellate Decisions from 2014: A review of significant decisions issued In 2014 by the South Carolina appellate courts and the Supreme Court of the United States, with a discussion of how the holdings in those cases have impacted or will impact criminal practice in South Carolina
Moderator: Honorable John Cannon Few, Chief Judge
South Carolina Court of Appeals
Amie L. Clifford, Education Coordinator
S.C. Commission on Prosecution Coordination
Salley W. Elliott, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General
S.C. Attorney General’s Office
Honorable Ernest A. Finney, III, Solicitor
Third Judicial Circuit
Andrew J. Savage, III
Savage & Savage
Tara Dawn Shurling
The Law Office of Tara Dawn Shurling, PA
Hervery B. O. Young, Circuit Public Defender
Tenth Judicial Circuit
The Rings of Immigration Hell: Padilla v. Kentucky and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions for Immigrants
Robert J. McWhirter, Certified Specialist in Criminal Law
Supervising Attorney, Arizona State University Alumni Law Group
Immigrant Crime Victims and Witnesses: Review of the Constitutional and Statutory Rights of Victims and the Availability of U and T Visas for Immigrant Victims and Witnesses
Patricia S. Ravenhorst, Director/Attorney
Immigrant Victim Program, South Carolina Victim Assistance Network
Ethics and Professionalism for Criminal Practitioners: Review of 2014 Disciplinary Opinions and Rules Governing or Implicated by Threatening to File an Ethics Complaint, Filing a Complaint, and Discussing Such with the Media and Others
Barbara M. Seymour, Deputy Disciplinary Counsel
Office of Disciplinary Counsel
Legislative Review and Preview: A Review of the 2014 Acts of Interest to Criminal Practitioners and a Look ahead at What Criminal Legislation will be and/or may be Considered in 2015
Thomas E. “Tommy” Pope, Speaker Pro Tempore and Representative, District 47 (York County), S.C. House of Representatives
Partner, Elrod Pope Law Firm