Avoiding Removal in Drug Cases in the 9th Circuit Teleseminar

In this teleseminar you will learn how to: (1) Describe the controlled substances conviction-based and conduct-based grounds of deportability and inadmissibility, and eligibility for available relief in immigration court. (2) List the steps necessary to construct an immigration-safe disposition in a criminal drug-trafficking case in the Ninth Circuit. (3) List the criminal court dispositions for which state rehabilitative relief is effective to eliminate a controlled substance conviction in the Ninth Circuit. Each session will consist of one hour of presentations by the panelists, plus one-half hour of questions and answers. To Buy CD click HERE!
Session 1 Thurs., February 19, 2004 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m., PST Topic: Overview of Drug-Related Grounds of Deportability, Inadmissibility, and Relief in Immigration Court	Session 2 Thurs., March 4, 2004, from 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m., PST Topic: Construction of an Immigration-Safe Plea in a Drug Trafficking Case
Distinguished Faculty Ann Benson is currently the Directing Attorney for the Washington Defenders' Immigration Project. Prior to this, Ms. Benson was the legal director at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle. Ms. Benson is a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Washington School of Law. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the National Network To End Violence Against Immigrant Women. She is a member of the Alaska Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association and serves of the Board of Directors for the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. Katherine Brady is a Staff Attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco. She is the author of several immigration texts including hte ILRC publications on California Criminal Law and Immigration and the chapter on representing the Non-Citizen Criminal Defendant in CEB's California Criminal Law Precedure and Practice. Norton Tooby has practiced criminal law for over 30 years, including successful capital appellate work and has increasingly specialized in representing immigrants since 1986. B.A. Harvard College, with Honore, 1967. J.D. Stanford Law Review, 1969-1970. Author: California Expungement Manual (2001), California Post-Conviction Relief (2002), Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants (2000) Vacating Federal Convictions (2000), Criminal Defense of Immigrants (2003), Crimes of Moral Turpitude (2002), Aggravated Felonies (2003).
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