Webinar: “Alameda County, CA Prosecutors and the Exclusion of Jewish and Black Jurors” w Mike Farrell, Brian Pomerantz, and Ann-Kathryn Tria

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Starts: June 11, 2024 12:00 pm
Ends: June 11, 2024 1:00 pm

We hope you can join us on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 – Noon PT, 3:00pm ET for a DPF webinar on “Alameda County, CA Prosecutors and the Exclusion of Jewish and Black Jurors.” Moderated by DPF President Mike Farrell, in conversation with Brian Pomerantz and Ann-Kathryn Tria, the discussion will examine how the Alameda County District Attorney’s office systematically excluded people of certain faiths, races, or genders from serving on juries. Pomerantz and Tria, co-counsels for Ernest Dykes, will discuss how his death sentence appeal was the catalyst for the discovery of the practice, and the subsequent order by a federal judge for the DA’s office to review 35 death sentences going back 30 years for evidence of jury exclusion.

DPF President Mike Ferrell
DPF Board President Mike Farrell

President of the Board of Death Penalty Focus, Mike Farrell is also a spokesperson for Concern America, an international refugee aid and development organization, Co-Chair Emeritus of the California Committee of Human Rights Watch, and, occasionally, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Brian Pomerantz
Brian Pomerantz

Brian Pomerantz began working on capital cases in law school twenty-five years ago. After eight years in the Los Angeles Federal Public Defender’s Capital Habeas Unit, he has represented death row prisoners in their final appeals for more than a decade in private practice. He is co-counsel with Ann-Kathryn Tria in the Dykes appeal.

Ann-Kathryn Tria

Ann-Kathryn Tria is a private practice attorney based in Los Angeles, California. Tria has represented condemned California prisoners in federal and state habeas corpus and civil rights litigation for over 15 years. She is co-counsel with Brian Pomerantz in the Dykes appeal.

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