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28 Crim. Just. Sec. Newsl. 1 (2019-2020)

handle is hein.aba/cjsnw0028 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 28, No. 1 Fall 2019 The ABA Criminal Justice Section met in San Francis- co for the 2019 Annual Meeting, August 8-11. The Section hosted CLE programs, Council and committee meetings and participated in The House of Delegates deliberations. The Section's CLE programs featured many panel discus- sions, with a range of topics from diversion programs, to public-interest attorney well-being to gathering evi- dence abroad, a review of the Supreme Court term, in- ternal investigations and women in the courtroom. The Task Force : Women in Criminal Justice contin- ued its work at the Annual. The Task Force hosted a lis- tening session for women of varying backgrounds at the University of California Hastings College of Law. The Section Council welcomed Kim T. Park- er of Kansas County and District Attorneys Asso- ciation as the new Chair for 2019-2020 and thanked the outgoing Chair Lucian E. Dervan for his service. The Criminal Justice Section sponsored four Resolu- tions at the Annual Meeting of the ABA House of Del- egates. Additionally, the Section co-sponsored Resolu- tion 105. The House of Delegates voted and approved the following Resolutions related to criminal justice: 101 - Urges Congress to make the ameliorative provi- sions of the First Step Act retroactive and urges the President and Attorney General to take action to im- plement the provisions of the Act. Adopted as revised. 104 - Urges Congress to enact legislation to resolve the cur- rent stalemate between state and federal law over marijuana regulation and to update federal marijuana policy. Adopted. 105- Urges state,local, territorial, and tribalgovernments to enact statutes, rules or regulations and judges to promulgate policies to limit the possession of firearms in courthouses and judicial cen- ters to only those persons necessary to ensure security. Adopted. 114 - Urges legislatures and courts to define consent in sexual assault cases as the assent of a person who is com- petent to give consent to engage in a specific act of sexual penetration, oral sex, or sexual contact, to provide that con- sent is expressed by words or action in the context of all the circumstances, and to reject any requirement that sexual as- sault victims have a legal burden of verbal or physical resis- tance. The Section withdrew its co-sponsorship of this Res- olution prior to the vote. The House of Delegates voted to postpone indefinitely for further discussion with The Com- mission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and other entities. 119 - Provides that any legislation and related regulations to detect and combat money laundering and terrorist financing must be consistent with the eight fundamental principles out- lined in the resolution. This Resolution was withdrawn for further discussion with International Law and other entities.

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