LAW 705 - Jefferson County Public Defender Capital Defense Clinic (2-4)

This clinical course is taught with the Jefferson County Public Defender’s Office, a state agency that represents indigent defendants in capital and non-capital cases at trial and on direct appeal. Students will assist public defenders on a variety of legal issues facing persons charged with capital murder or already convicted of capital murder. In the Capital Defense Clinic, students will assist the public defenders in a capital case with tasks including research, case management, client and witness interviewing, investigation, hearings, pleas, jury selection, trial, and sentencing. The course has a classroom component of law and procedure and legal writing and a fieldwork component. Students will be supervised by the professors and attorneys in the office. Students are requested to have no other daytime employment during this clinic. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer.