2023 Judicial Education Course Catalog

TUESDAY, AUGUST 22 Mental Health & Substance Abuse: Substance Use Disorders & Treatment, Monitoring Defendants with Serious Mental Illness, What Every Judge Needs to Know! 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. This course will provide an energetic and exhaustive review of the Health General 8-505 and 8-507 process for judges who have defendants before them in need of inpatient or outpatient care. Health General 8-507 is a critically important tool in the sentencing arsenal of non-drug court trial judges who handle 95 percent of defendants needing behavioral health support coming before the courts. In this course, judges will learn of the importance of their active role, not only in determining who is eligible for this treatment but also for implementing the treatment in an appropriate way ensuring the essential need for “continuity of care” and “continuity of supervision.” Learn from experienced judges who have successfully used the process, behavioral science experts who will explain the science of addiction, and defendants who have faced the enormously difficult task of

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Statutory Interpretation for the Orphan’s Court Judge 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. When is an “or” also an “and”? In this course we will identify and apply the various canons of interpretation including textual canons, substantive canons, and deference in the course of an Orphan’s Court case. Coordinator: Judge Athena Malloy Groves Faculty: Judge Dan A. Friedman; Judge C. Philip Nichols (Sr.) Writing for Orphan’s Court Judges 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Orphan’s Court judges issue many written findings and orders. You have taken the case under advisement and now you must draft a written order to include your fact findings and legal rulings. Our experienced faculty will focus on these types of cases and give you a framework for making this task easier for you and the order more clear to the parties. Coordinator: Judge Maureen Carr-York Faculty: TBD THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 “Is It Because I Am Black?”: Disproportionality in Sentencing 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. “African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons across the country at more than five times the rate of whites, and at least ten times the rate in five states. In 2014, Maryland led all states with blacks being 72% of all persons sent to jail. This is especially troubling when African Americans only make up ~30% of Marylanders. Brown, poor, and LGBTQ persons do not measure much better, and are more likely to be sent to jail than their white counterparts. How do judges play a part in these disparities? What are judges missing? What biases underlie our self-proclaimed equal treatment of defendants? More importantly, how do we get better and minimize the disparity in the courtroom? Coordinator: Judge Zuberi B. Williams Faculty: TBD

overcoming an addiction. Coordinator: Gray Barton Faculty: TBD SEPTEMBER

September 8 Special Topics in DV Cases with Hon. Kimberly M. Davis

Lunchtime Webinars

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