For defense counsel
Understand the medicine. Test the opinion.
Programs for defense attorneys and defense investigators: reading the autopsy critically, recognizing when a second opinion is warranted, and working effectively with retained experts.
What we teach
Topics
- Reading the autopsy report, and its limits
- What a pathologist can and cannot say about timing and mechanism
- Infant and child deaths, including alleged abusive head trauma
- When to retain a forensic pathologist, and what to send
- Working with your retained expert
- Cross-examining the medical examiner
- Admissibility of medical opinion: Rule 702, Daubert and Frye
Who may attend
Eligibility
Defense attorneys, and investigators working for defense counsel
Programs for defense counsel are restricted to defense attorneys, public defender offices and their investigators. Eligibility is confirmed after registration.
Upcoming
Programs
Training for your office
Bring a program to your team.
We design and deliver training for district attorney and public defender offices, police agencies, coroner and medical examiner offices, and pathology training programs, at NAAG in San Diego or at your location.
Tell us who you are and what you need. We will reply to discuss scope, timing and cost.