2405: Legal Issues - Computer-Facilitated Crimes Against Children

Thursday, June 24, 2004
8:00am – 11:30am
Presenter: Daniel Armagh

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

This module will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of relevant federal law regarding the search and seizure of electronic evidence, privacy issues and attendant liability, use of pre-trial motions in designing your prosecution, meeting defenses, and a discussion on evolving issues in the field.

PRESENTER BIO

Daniel Armagh received his law degree from the University of Oklahoma with honors where he received the American Jurisprudence Award for Achievement in the study of Legal Process in Contract Law. Mr. Armagh also studied at Queen’s College and Oxford University, United Kingdom. Mr. Armagh became Director of Legal Education at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in September of 1999. Among Mr. Armagh’s responsibilities as Director of Legal Education is to train attorneys, law enforcement, and other professionals how to investigate and prosecute crimes against children. He also provides technical assistance on a wide variety of issues impacting children in the areas of the sexual exploitation of children, physical abuse of children, child abduction, and child fatalities.

Mr. Armagh lectures frequently on crimes against children in national and international forums, most recently at INTERPOL in Lyon, France; ARD-CHECHI in Moscow, Russia; ISPCAN in Denver, CO; and EUROPOL in Thun, Switzerland. He is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of investigation and prosecution of computer – facilitated crimes against children, sexual exploitation of children, child pornography, and child physical abuse and fatalities.

Prior to joining the staff at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Mr. Armagh was Director of APRI’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse for five years. Under Mr. Armagh’s direction, the Center’s expert staff provided training and technical assistance to prosecutors and other professionals nationwide concerning the investigation and prosecution of sexual, physical, and fatal child abuse.

Before joining APRI, Mr. Armagh was an assistant district attorney for Lawrence County, Pennsylvania and as such, he was the director of the Sensitive Crimes Unit with emphasis on the prosecution of crimes against children. Mr. Armagh has litigated cases involving child abuse for ten years and has litigated over 150 jury trials in this area of specialization. He has argued before the highest courts on appellate issues in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania, and has authored various articles in the area of child abuse. Mr. Armagh authored the Brief as AMICUS CURIAE on behalf of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the case Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, No. 00-795, before the U.S. Supreme Court. His most recent articles are entitled; A Safety Net for the Internet: Protecting Our Children, published in the Journal of Juvenile Justice, (Vol. V, No. 1), US Department of Justice (1998); A Case Analysis: Computer – Assisted Exploitation of Children via the Internet, APSAC Advisor (American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children – January, 1999); Use of Computers in the Sexual Exploitation of Children, Office of Justice Programs, OJJDP, Department of Justice, (June, 1999), Virtual Child Pornography: Free Speech or Criminal Conduct, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 6, (August 2002).”

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