Presentations and Events

Webinar: Appellate Practice Seminar 2021
Geofence Warrants Make Bad Fourth Amendment Neighbors
Sunday, August 22, 2021

This presentation will cover an explanation of how location data is collected by Google and legal challenges to consider when challenging location based warrants.

Best Practices for Authentication and Admissibility of Digital Evidence
NACDL and Cardozo Law’s National Forensic College (NFC)
June 11, 2021

Digital evidence is routinely offered at trial – from social media, photographs, emails, spreadsheets, evidence from websites, body cam and web cam videos, to business documents, almost all information now is in digital form. This session will discuss best practices for getting digital evidence authenticated and admitted, including a focus on two new amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence – Rules 902(13) and (14), that were intended to make it easier to authenticate electronic evidence for use in court.

Presenter(s): John C. Ellis, Jr. and Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez

Location, Location, Location: CLSI and Geofence: Part 2
NACDL and Cardozo Law’s National Forensic College (NFC)
June 10, 2021

Geofence warrants purport to give law enforcement the ability to determine what devices were in a geographical area. Generally, officers need a search warrant to obtain location data from companies such as Google. This presentation explores the legal challenges to use of the warrants.

Presenter(s): John C. Ellis, Jr., Jerry R. Grant, and Sean Broderick

Location, Location, Location: CLSI and Geofence: Part 1
NACDL and Cardozo Law’s National Forensic College (NFC)
June 10, 2021

From traditional Call Detail Records to the use of Geofence warrants, law enforcement is using location data generated from mobile devices to place suspects at or near the scene of a crime. This presentation explains how location is stored and used by cell phone carriers, applications, and the phone itself.

Presenter(s): John C. Ellis, Jr., Jerry R. Grant, and Sean Broderick

Administrative Office of The U.S. Courts Defender Services Office Training Division:
Trial Skills Workshop
April 9, 2020
Westin, San Diego Hotel, 400 West Broadway, San Diego, CA

Advocacy Strategies & Skills to Maximize Use of Experts: The Art of Becoming the Expert on Experts