2506: Legal Issues: Cal State

Friday, June 25, 2004
9:00am – 12:30pm
Presenter: Deputy District Attorney Charles Gillingham

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

The course is for Investigators and Prosecutors and will cover California law relating to traveler cases. The presentation and documentation of evidence, search warrants, and common defenses. The purpose of the lecture will be to insure that attendees have an understanding of the relevant California case and statutory law along with the defenses raised. The course will also raise some of the common pitfalls in testimony and preparing the case for trial.

PRESENTER BIO

Charles Gillingham has been a Deputy District Attorney with the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office since 1994. Presently assigned to the sexual assault unit, he has handled the prosecution of three-strike, robberies, child molest, homicide and death penalty cases.

He is a regular instructor for the California District Attorney's Association training prosecutors in evidence and trial advocacy. He is an Instructor at the Santa Clara University School of Law teaching evidence. Mr. Gillingham has taught many courses for local law enforcement and instructs at the Basic Police Academy. He is member of the San Jose ICAC Task Force.

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