Course Description

Instructor: Carl Greenburg, JD

Each session will focus on significant issues illustrated by actual cases. Participants will put themselves in the shoes of the jurors, judges or lawyers in cases about police-citizen encounters, arrests, ethical and professional responsibilities of prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges; trial procedure; jury deliberations; sentencing; appeals; probation; the prison system and parole, and more. For each session, the instructor will flesh out the facts, explain the basic law, clarify what needs to be decided to resolve the case, then guide class discussion and answer questions. At the end, the actual outcome will be revealed, explained, and critiqued. During one session, one of the instructor’s clients will co-present.

Instructor fee: $25.

In a 30+ year career with stints as a defense lawyer and as a prosecutor, Carl worked on many major felony cases – including death penalty cases – some with heavy news coverage. He’s a founding member of the Georgia Innocence Project. Currently he’s working with a former client exonerated after 18 years in prison; he and the client are writing an analytical article about mistaken convictions. The client will copresent at the session concerning his case.