Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Assault

Atlanta, GA

In Collaboration with the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia

With the rise in violent crimes, backlash against victims, police, prosecutors and the criminal justice system, frequent lack of scientific evidence and eyewitnesses, isolation in a pandemic, social media attacks, and sexual sensationalism by the entertainment industry, sexual assault cases are some of the most difficult to try. Join our experienced multi-disciplinary faculty as they discuss issues essential to effective investigation, charging, prosecution, case management and sentencing in these complex cases. Share your concerns and obtain successful strategies to manage these cases effectively.

Topics for Investigating and Prosecuting Adult Sexual Assault:

• The Myths & Realties: The Investigation and the Crime Scene
• STOP VICTIM Bashing: Counterintuitive Victim Behavior
• The Neurobiology of Trauma and Vicarious Trauma
• Effective Approaches for Utilizing Trauma Informed Practices
• Protecting Your Victims: Proactive Motions Practice
• Crafting Jury Selection and Opening Statement to Counter the Fraudulent Consent Defense
• Building and Sustaining the Evidence Based Case – Effective Corroboration of the Victim’s Statement
• Intimidate Partner Sexual Assault
• Increasing Juror Persuasion: The Visual Trial and Law of the Visual Trial
• Educating and Empowering your Victim : Trial Preparation Techniques
• Overcoming Defense Attacks
• Serial Rape
• Human Trafficking
• Unique Issues with Juvenile Sex Offenders
• Strategically Identifying and Managing the Weaknesses in your Case
• When the World is Watching: Navigating Social Media Use by Victims
• Utilizing the Medical Expert: Sexual Assaults and Sex-Related Homicides
• DNA 101
• Prosecuting Sexual Assaults of Elders
• Eyes Wide Open: Working with Child Witnesses
• Cross Examination of Defendants and Their Experts
• Ethical and Professional Responsibility Concerns with the Investigation, Charging, Trial, and Sentencing of the Sexual Assault Case
• Use of Experts – When How and Where to Find Them
• Witness Issues: Recanting Witnesses, Alcohol and/or Drug Facilitated Sexual Assaults, Witness Intimidation and Forfeiture by Wrongdoing
• Collaborating with College Campuses and Title IX: Campus Sexual Assault Investigation and Trial
• Unveiling the Stealth Juror: Intimate Partner, The Unfamiliar Suspect and Statutory Rape
• Uses and Misuses of Technology: Victim Safety in the 21st Century
• and much more!

Additional Questions?

Director Candace Mosley or Assistant Director Logan Silverman.