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This CLE is designed for criminal law practitioners and judges alike to bring you up to speed to handle the inevitable -- the intersection between immigration and criminal law and procedure. Our day-long program will provide in-depth training on key topics at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels of handling criminal cases having immigration consequences -- for both prosecution and defense. Topics to be covered include: classification, detention, removal, deportability, and inadmissibility; types of immigration court relief; motions to reopen deportation proceedings; and best practices for seeking criminal post-conviction relief for immigration purposes, including vacaturs, expungements, and sentence modifications in state and federal court. You will learn the most up-to-date case law and legal arguments in pursuing the best possible resolutions for noncitizen-defendants facing criminal charges. And our very special keynote address will be given by Judge Roy K. Altman of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. This program is an educational must for all criminal lawyers and jurists to fully appreciate the many complexities of how criminal cases impact and are impacted by our country's immigration system.

Welcome
H. Scott Fingerhut, FIU College of Law, H. Scott Fingerhut, P.A., Miami

Introduction
Maggie Arias, Arias & Pereira, PLLC, Coral Gables, Program Chair

Opening Remarks
Hon. Michael Caruso, Federal Public Defender, Southern District of Florida, Miami

Crimmigration 101: "But I'm not an immigration lawyer...."
Dominique Pando, Bucci Pando Bucci Law, PLLC, Miami Beach 
Andrea Jacoski, Director, Detention Program Americans for Immigration Justice

Crimmigration 201: When Criminal Cases Cause Immigration Harm
John Gihon Board Certified, Immigration and Nationality Law Shorstein, Lasnetski & Gihon, Altamonte Springs 
Sean B. Mendez-Catlin MC & J, PLLC, Orlando 
Linda M. Osberg-Braun Board Certified, Immigration and Nationality Law Osberg-Braun Immigration, Miami

Keynote Address
Hon. Roy K. Altman, United States District Judge, Southern District of Florida, Miami

Crimmigration 301: The Ins and Outs of Immigration Court
Hon. Denise Noonan Slavin Immigration Judge (ret.), Baltimore, Maryland 
Gracie Willis Southern Poverty Law Center, Immigrant Justice Project, Atlanta, Georgia

Crimmigration 401: Post-Conviction Relief in the Immigration Context: Will it Help or Hurt?
Raymond Bolourtchi Cofman & Bolourtchi, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri
Michael S. Vastine Director of Clinical Programs and Professor of Law St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami Gardens

Crimmigration 501: Case Law Update
Mark A. Prada Prada Urizar, PLLC, Miami 
Rebeca Sanchez-Roig Sanchez-Roig, P.A., Miami 
Benjamin S. Waxman Board Certified, Criminal Appellate Law Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf, P.A., Miami

Closing Remarks
Maggie Arias, Arias & Pereira, PLLC, Coral Gables Program Chair