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Thursday, June 30 • 3:15pm - 4:15pm
Feeling Our Clients' Stories

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Our clients stories often share common general elements: childhood trauma, abuse, poverty, ACEs. Our familiarity with these general elements creates the risk that we, judges, prosecutors, and juries start to see our clients in generalities: clients, defendants, killers, monsters. It's easy to sentence those clients to death.

Together we'll explore ways to see our clients as human beings with value and deserving of mercy, starting with learning to deeply empathize with our clients---to feel their stories---and then helping others feel their stories too.
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Betsy Wilson

Founder, Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston
Betsy Wilson is a founder of the Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston, where she leads a multidisciplinary team of sentencing advocates and record specialists.  SAGE conducts mitigation investigations in federal and state and capital, juvenile-life-sentence, and non-capital cases... Read More →

Thursday June 30, 2022 3:15pm - 4:15pm CDT
Room 235
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