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title: 'Veterans and the Death Penalty Webinar Series — Agenda'
description: 'Co-Sponsored by Advancing Real Change and Witness to Innocence Veterans on Death Row (Kickoff event) — Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m.'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/announcements/veterans-defense-webinar-series-agenda'
section: announcements
date: '2020-10-21T13:21:00-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T15:09:01-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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### Death Penalty Information Center and Veteran Advocacy Project  
Webinar Series on  
Veterans and the Death Penalty

### Agenda

#### *November 9 – 19, 2020*

Co-Sponsored by Advancing Real Change and Witness to Innocence

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**Veterans on Death Row (Kickoff event) — Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific**

- **Art Cody, Esq.**, Captain, US Navy (Ret.), Director, Criminal Programs, Veteran Advocacy Project
- **Richard Dieter, Esq.**, Principal Consultant, RDieter Communications, author of DPIC’s report, *[Battle Scars: Military Veterans and the Death Penalty](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/pdf/BattleScars.pdf "https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/pdf/BattleScars.f1560295684.pdf")*
- **Robert Dunham, Esq.**, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center

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**Representing Veterans in Capital Cases — Special Issues in Investigating and Presenting Veterans’ Mitigation — Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific**

- **Art Cody, Esq.**, Captain, US Navy (Ret.), Director, Criminal Programs, Veteran Advocacy Project
- **Brock Hunter, Esq.**, co-founder and President of the Veterans Defense Project; co-author, *The Attorney's Guide to Defending Veterans in Criminal Court*
- **Teresa Norris, Esq.**, Special Assistant Public Defender, Charleston County Public Defender’s Office, capital defense and former JAG Corps lawyer
- **Judge Robert Russell**, Associate Judge, Buffalo City Court; Acting Erie County, N.Y., Court Judge; created the country’s first “Veterans’ Treatment Court”
- **Robert Dunham**, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center, moderator

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**The Military Death Penalty — Capital Punishment Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice — Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific**

- **Jonathan Potter, Esq.**, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (Ret.), Chief, Capital and Complex Litigation, US Army Defense Appellate Division
- **Dwight Sullivan, Esq.**, Colonel, US Marine Corps Reserve (Ret.), Civilian Counsel, Air Force Appellate Defense Division
- **Art Cody, Esq.**, Captain, US Navy (Ret.), Director, Criminal Programs, Veteran Advocacy Project, moderator

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**Mental Health Issues in Veterans’ Capital Cases — Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, 3:00 p.m. Eastern/12:00 p.m. Pacific**

- **Jerid M. Fisher, Ph.D.**, Forensic Neuropsychologist specializing in traumatic brain injury
- **Victoria Reynolds, Ph.D.**, Clinical Psychologist specializing in complex trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder
- **Edward J. Ungvarsky, Esq.**, Ungvarsky Law, PLLC, criminal and capital defense lawyer
- **Stephen N. Xenakis, MD**, Brigadier General, US Army (Ret.), Medical Director for Head Injury, Psychiatry & Neurology, Center for Translational Medicine
- **Robert Dunham,** Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center, moderator

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**Veterans, Race, and the Death Penalty — Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific**

- **Gilbert King**, Pulitzer-prize winning author of *Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America*
- **Ngozi Ndulue, Esq.**, Death Penalty Information Center, Senior Director of Research and Special Projects, author of DPIC’s report, [*Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty*](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/pdf/Enduring-Injustice-Race-and-the-Death-Penalty-2020.pdf "https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/reports/r/Enduring-Injustice-Race-and-the-Death-Penalty-2020.pdf"), moderator
- **Jennifer Taylor, Esq.**, Equal Justice Initiative, editor and contributing author of EJI’s report, *[Targeting Black Veterans: Lynching in America](https://eji.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/lynching-in-america-targeting-black-veterans-web.pdf)*

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**Wrongful Capital Convictions of Military Veterans — Death-Row Exonerees Tell Their Stories — Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific**

- **Kirk Bloodsworth (Marines)**, death-row exoneree, Maryland
- **Ray Krone (Air Force)**, death-row exoneree, Arizona
- **Ralph "Ron" Wright (Air Force)**, death-row exoneree, Florida
- **Robert Dunham**, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center, moderator

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