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September 2010
Contempt of Court: A Lesson in Legal History
Program Description:
For decades, the amazing story of Ed Johnson and his two lawyers was buried in law books. Now, author Mark Curriden brings you a 100-year -old case and story that exemplify why lawyers as advocates for the poor and downtrodden are best positioned to take the steps necessary to uphold the rule of law. Described as “a gut-check for lawyers” about why they entered the legal profession, this CLE demonstrates what it means to be a lawyer and the sacrifices and risks lawyers must make on behalf of their clients and in defense of constitutional rights.
Program Highlights:
- Involves the first African-American attorneys to take a case to the U.S. Supreme Court
- Details the first time the Supreme Court intervened in a state criminal matter and issued its first ever stay of execution in a death penalty case
- Examines how the U.S. Supreme Court-for the first and only time in history-ordered the arrest of parties before it, charged them with criminal contempt of the Supreme Court, and held a historical criminal trial before the Court with the Justices sitting as jurors
- Details how the Supreme Court took these extraordinary steps after determining that lynchings were undermining the rule of law in this country
- Shows how the Justices, by taking these significant measures in this case, opened the door for the federal courts to intervene in future state court matters
Course materials include Mark Curriden's book, Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
Topics:
Contempt of Court: A Lesson in Legal History Focusing on Ethics and Professionalism
Mark S. Curriden, J.D.
A Continuing Discussion:
- Due process, criminal contempt, and habeas
- Federalism and independence of the judiciary
- Professionalism of lawyers
- Constitutional law issues
- Lawyer's ethical duty to clients
Hon. W. Terry Ruckriegle, Moderator
Mark S. Curriden, J.D.
David A. Lane,Esq., Killmer Lane & Newman LLP
Martha M. Tierney, Esq., Kelly Garnsey Hubbell & Lass LLC
Faculty:
Mark Curriden, J.D.
Mark Curriden was educated and trained as a lawyer but never practiced law. Instead, he chose a life of journalism, book writing, and lecturing. The specialty topics about which he writes and lectures include legal history, trends at the U.S. Supreme Court, the American jury system, and relationships between lawyers and journalists. In 2000, he authored a highly-acclaimed 16-part series on the role of the American jury in resolving disputes in our nation's history. Also in 2000, Mark published his award-winning and national best-selling book, Contempt of Court: A Turn-of-the-Century Lynching.
Honorable Terry Ruckriegle
Judge Ruckriegle graduated from Indiana University with a business degree in 1969 and a law degree in 1973. He served as a prosecutor in the Fifth Judicial District Attorney's office in Georgetown for 9 years. Judge Ruckriegle has served on the district court bench since 1984 and has acted as chief judge of the 5th Judicial District since 1994. He sits primarily in Breckenridge and Georgetown. Judge Ruckriegle is retiring from the bench in August 2010.
Martha M. Tierney, Esq.
Kelly Garnsey Hubbell & Lass LLC
Martha M. Tierney's practice includes election law and constitutional law; she has represented individual plaintiffs in redistricting cases stemming from the 2002 federal census, and has represented citizen watchdogs The League of Women Voters and Colorado Common Cause in arguing violations of The Fair Campaign Practices Act and Article 28 of the Colorado Constitution. She graduated in 1988 from the Colorado College and received her J.D. from Vermont Law School in 1996.
David A. Lane
Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP
David A. Lane's practice is limited to criminal defense and civil rights litigation. His criminal practice includes both state and federal trials and appellate work, including white collar crimes, complex financial crimes, drug cases, homicides, capital litigation, as well as post conviction cases. Mr. Lane's civil rights practice include representing plaintiffs in actions alleging race, age, sex, disability and religious discrimination in the workplace/employment context, as well as First Amendment freedom of speech cases both in the workplace and in many other contexts. He has also represented numerous plaintiffs in lawsuits against the police, prisons and jails alleging police brutality, lack of medical care and other Constitutional violations of human rights.
- CLE Pass Price *FREE! - exclusions may apply
- Standard Price $209.00 USD
- Member Price $189.00 USD
- General Credits 3.00
- Ethics Credits 3.00
- EDI Credits