2026 Summer Public Defense Conference

Nathanial Studelska is the director of the Georgia Capital Defender in Atlanta, GA. His entire career has been spent working in public defense and he has been practicing death penalty defense since 2015. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgia College & State University... Read More →

Doug Passon is a practicing criminal defense lawyer with 30 years’ experience in state and federal court. He has a national practice focused on holistic, narrative-based sentencing advocacy and autism-informed defense. (www.dougpassonlaw.com) 
 
Passon is also an accomplished documentary filmmaker, having directed, filmed and edited award-winning short and feature-length documentaries that have played throughout North America and beyond. He has long been recognized as the pioneer in using short documentary films for mitigation... Read More →