“Hot Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Law,” a pair of ISBA Law Ed Series seminars, will be conducted Friday, Oct. 21, at the Hawthorn Suites in Bloomington, and Friday, Nov. 4, in the UBS Tower Conference Center, Chicago.

Sponsors are the Criminal Justice Section and the Committee on Corrections and Sentencing. Committee chair James R. “Chip” Coldren of Chicago and Champaign County Public Defender Randall B. Rosenbaum, Urbana, a member of the section council, are program coordinators.

Coldren and 8th Circuit Judge Mark A. Schuering, also a committee member, will open the program at 9:30 a.m. with a welcome and overview. The schedule follows.

9:45 a.m. – Sentencing in Illinois: History, Organization, Citations to Sentencing Law, and Sentencing Worksheet, with Judge Schuering.

10:15 a.m. – Overview of Sentencing Research and Evidence-Based Practices, with Coldren and Schuering.

11 a.m. – Special Topics in Sentencing: Apprendi, Substance Abusers, Sex Offenders, and Mentally Ill Offenders.

Speakers are committee vice chair Kelly J. Bryson and Verlin R. Meinz of the Office of State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, and Donya L. Adkerson, director of Alternative Counseling Inc., Glen Carbon.

12:30 p.m. – Luncheon period.

1:30 p.m. – Special Topics in Criminal Justice: Current Trends in Search and Seizure, Crawford v. Washington, and Hearsay Exceptions.

Speakers are Donald L. Hays, senior staff counsel for the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Springfield, in the Bloomington program, and ISBA Assembly member Stephen M. Komie of Chicago, in Chicago.

3:15 p.m. – Special Topics in Criminal Justice: Record Expungement, with Jennifer S. Walsh of the Office of State Appellate Defender, Springfield.

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