You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.
Venue:
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1:30pm EDT
Capital Defender Case Meeting
Monday July 20, 2026 1:30pm - 3:20pm EDT
Speakers NS
Director, Ga Capital Defender
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...
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3:45pm EDT
The Three Rs of Storytelling
Monday July 20, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
Speakers 
Doug Passon Law
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...
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2:30pm EDT
Discovering & Telling Your Client's Story: Mitigation & Life Histories in Court
Tuesday July 21, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Speakers 
Vogelsang Consulting, Inc
Janet Vogelsang, LISW-CP, BCD, is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 45 years of clinical experience. She earned her master’s degree in social work from the University of South Carolina and her undergraduate degree in psychology from Pepperdine University.
Janet began her career in Los Angeles County, where she worked with justice-involved youth and helped develop programs for adolescents involved in serious offenses. She later returned to South Carolina, where she established a private practice in Greenville specializing in biopsychosocial...
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3:45pm EDT
Delusions & How They impact Competency & Criminal Responsibility
Tuesday July 21, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
Speakers 
Atlanta Adult & Forensic Psychiatry
Joseph Browning, M.D., is a board certified general and forensic psychiatrist who got his undergraduate degree from West Virginia University and then graduated from medical school at Emory University School of Medicine. He also completed his general psychiatry residency training and...
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9:00am EDT
Competency Proceedings/Trials in Capital Cases
Wednesday July 22, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Speakers NS
Director, Ga Capital Defender
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...
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10:15am EDT
11:25am EDT
