Collecting and Presenting Mitigation Evidence in Non-Capital Cases

• In Event: Legal Services for the Indigent: Social Work, Mitigation, and Holistic Defense

Abstract

This presentation will discuss the use of mitigation evidence – evidence meant to support a lesser sentence and evoke mercy – in non-capital cases. It will focus on how mitigation has been used in juvenile cases, parole, and in other criminal cases and what the results of these efforts have been.

Author

• Elizabeth Vartkessian, Advancing Real Change, Inc.