Public Defense Education
Spring 2025 Public Defender Conferernce - May 7-9, 2025
This is a collection of digital materials used and referenced in the 2025 Spring Public Defender Conference held May 7- 9, 2025.
During the conference, this page will be periodically updated as we receive additional materials. All available materials from the program will be posted here within three weeks of the conclusion of the course.
More information on the program can be found on the course homepage. If you have any questions, please contact Phil Dixon, Jr., or Kayla Fowler.
Course Materials
Presented by Brian Oten, Associate Director and Chief Ethics Counsel, and Jessica Arnold, Deputy Counsel
North Carolina State Bar, Raleigh, NC
Presented by Carla Huff, IDS Training and Recruitment Coordinator, Office of Indigent Defense Services, Durham, NC
Presented by Edgar Fritz, MSRA, CCME, Forensic Examiner, Reliance Forensics, LLC, Charlotte, NC
Presented by Dana Delger, Consultant, Forensic Standards Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Presented by Jacqui Greene, Associate Professor, UNC School of Government, Chapel Hill, NC
Presented by Joseph Hollingsworth, Assistant Public Defender, Pasquotank Co. Public Defender’s Office, Elizabeth City, NC
Presented by Jessica Carmichael, Attorney, Carmichael, Ellis, & Brock, PLLC, Alexandria, VA
Presented by David Andrews, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the Appellate Defender, Durham, NC
Presented by Christine Malumphy, Assistant Capital Defender, Office of the Capital Defender, Durham, NC
Presented by Dan Shatz, Assistant Appellate Defender, and Sterling Rozear, Assistant Appellate Defender
Office of the Appellate Defender, Durham, NC
Presented by Meredith Vuotto, Assistant Public Defender, Office of the Public Defender, District 43, Waynesville, NC
Presented by Daniel Spiegel, Assistant Professor, UNC School of Government, Chapel Hill, NC
Presented by Elana Fogel, Director, Criminal Defense Clinic, and Kate Evans, Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic
Duke University, Durham, NC
Presented by Belal Elrahal, Assistant Professor, UNC School of Government, Chapel Hill, NC
Presented by Amanda Gopal, Director, LCSW, The Hundred Movement, Skyland, NC
Presented by Emily Byrum, Assistant Public Defender, Brunswick Co. Office of the Public Defender, Bolivia, NC
Presented by Fred Friedman, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Minnesota School of Law, Duluth, MN
Presented by Jamie Markham, Professor, UNC School of Government, Chapel Hill, NC, and Shane Tharrington, DAC Classification Manager (Ret’d.), Garner, NC
Presented by Timothy Heinle, Assistant Teaching Professor, UNC School of Government, Chapel Hill, NC
Presented by Phil Dixon, Associate Teaching Professor, and Danny Spiegel, Assistant Professor
UNC School of Government, Chapel Hill, NC