PANELISTS
AND SPEAKERS
THE
REVEREND STEPHEN BARBER, S.J.
Jesuit
father Stephen Barber was appointed November 2003 as chaplain to
the largest "Parish" in
Marin County, San Quentin Penitentiary. His 5,967 parishioners are
all men, they
never leave the parish grounds, and 560 of them live in a separate "mission" condemned to
death.” (Jack
Smith, Catholic San Francisco, 13 Feb. 2004)
HON.
RUDOLPH GERBER:
Rudolph
J. Gerber was a private practitioner in both civil and criminal litigation
prior to his appointment to the superior court in 1979. He served
for nine years as a judge of the Maricopa
County Superior Court, was Associate Presiding Judge from 1985 to
1988, and was appointed to division one of the court of appeals where
he served as a judge until 2001, when he joined Shugart, Thomson,
and Kilroy. Judge Gerber was both a Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright scholar.
HON.
LARRY HAMMOND:
Larry
A. Hammond is a member of the firm of Osborn Maledon, P.A. He chairs
the AJSS Criminal
Justice Reform Committee and also serves as the chair of the Arizona
State Bar Indigent Defense Task Force and is a member of the lawyers
committee for human rights. Mr. Hammond has served as the chair of
the justice project, which seeks to help, on an all-volunteer basis,
Arizona inmates who may have been victims of manifest injustice. Mr.
Hammond served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the office of
legal counsel at the Department of Justice during the Carter Administration,
and as an Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor.
HON.
DAN MAYNARD:
Member,
Maynard, Murray, Cronin, Erickson & Curran,
p.l.c. 1997 to present. Primary focus is
commercial litigation and criminal defense. In the criminal defense arena,
he has been involved in numerous death penalty cases in both the state
and federal courts, and handled numerous white-collar matters for fortune
500 companies and several high profile matters that have gathered national
media attention. University of Alabama, B.A., 1973; M.A. 1975; John Marshall
Law School, J.D., 1979.
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Monday,
Nov. 1:
8:20 to 9:50 Robson Gymnasium
Panel presentation on capital punishment in Arizona:
Scenes from dead man walking are being used to illustrate
The
dignity of the condemned
The
dignity of the victims of violent crime and those who survive the
victims
The
dignity of a society that suffers from violence and hate
Tuesday,
Nov. 2, 12:00 to 1:00
Speakers:
Larry
Hammond & Dan
Maynard
Place:
Student
Activity Center
Speaker:
Stephen
Barber, S.J.
Place:
Jesuit
Garden
Wednesday,
Nov. 3, 12:00 to 1:00
Speaker:
Rudy
Gerber
Place:
Student
Activity Center
Speakers:
Kent
Cattani & Beckie
Miller
Place:
Jesuit
Garden
Wednesday,
Nov. 3, 1:00 to 2:00
Speaker:
Jimmy
Santiago Baca
Place:
Robson
Gymnasium
Thursday,
Nov. 4, 12:00 to 1:00
Speakers:
TBA
Place:
Student
Activity Center
Speakers:
Student
actors from the play
Place:
Jesuit
Garden
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PANELISTS
AND SPEAKERS
JUSTICE MICHAEL D. RYAN:
ARIZONA SUPREME COURT
Michael D. Ryan, Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, was appointed to the
court on May 21, 2002. Justice Ryan had previously served on the Arizona Court
of Appeals for more than five years. Before his appointment to the Court of
Appeals, Justice Ryan served as a judge of the Arizona Superior Court for more
than ten years. Before his service as a judge, Justice Ryan was a Deputy County
Attorney with the Maricopa County Attorneys Office for eight years. In 2000,
he was selected to serve on the Arizona Attorney Generals Capital Case Commission.
JIMMY
SANTIAGO BACA
Born
in New Mexico of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was
raised first by his grandmother and was later sent to an orphanage.
A runaway at age thirteen, it was after Baca was sentenced to five
years in a maximum security prison at the age of twenty-one that he
began to turn his life around: there he learned to read and write and
found his passion for poetry. He is the winner of the Pushcart Prize,
the American Book Award, the National Poetry Award, the International
Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for his memoir "A Place to Stand",
the prestigious International Award.
HON.
KENT CATTANI:
Kent
works in the Arizona Attorney General's office and currently serves
as chief of the state's death penalty appeals unit, and as chief counsel
of the Capital Litigation Section of the Attorney General's office.
BECKIE
MILLER:
Beckie
Miller has been the chapter leader of the Phoenix chapter of Parents
of Murdered Children, since January of 1993, fifteen months after the death
of her eighteen-year-old son, Brian, who was robbed and shot to death in
October of 1991. Besides her roles as chapter leader she serves on the
board of Arizona Voice for Crime Victims, Arizona Coalition of Victim Services
and is a member of the National POMC Crisis Response Team and the Arizona
Crisis Response Team.
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