CURRICULUM VITAE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, BLUHM LEGAL CLINIC

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Laura H. Nirider 375 E. Chicago Ave., 8 th Floor Chicago, Illinois (312) (office) (312) (fax) l-nirider@law.northwestern.edu EDUCATION NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW (Chicago, IL) J.D. magna cum laude Associate Editor, Northwestern University Law Review Member, Order of the Coif UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, IL) Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Political Science PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, BLUHM LEGAL CLINIC Co-Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, 2009-Present Clinical Assistant Professor, 2013-Present Clinical Fellow, My responsibilities include representing wrongfully convicted youth, co-teaching a clinical course on wrongful convictions of youth, and directing the Center s mission and work. Both my courtroom work and classroom work focus on police interrogations and confessions. I maintain an ongoing caseload of post-conviction cases involving individuals who were convicted as children or adolescents. The majority of my clients cases involve confessions. In addition to my direct representation work, I consult on and write amicus curiae briefs in cases involving interrogations and juvenile justice across the country, including before the United States Supreme Court, and undertake collaborative efforts with law enforcement in support of interrogation reform. I also regularly appear as an expert on interrogations in print, film, and digital media outlets that range from Netflix s Making a Murderer to the New York Times. In my role as Co-Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, I have helped develop the first organization in the world that is focused exclusively on wrongfully convicted teenagers and children. Since the Center s inception, I have helped raise over $1,500,000 in support of the Center. 1

2 SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP, Chicago, IL Associate, I participated in all stages of complex commercial litigation cases, including discovery and expedited trial. BAR ADMISSIONS Admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court (2008), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2008), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (2012), the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (2014), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (2014), and the United States Supreme Court (2015) SELECTED LITIGATION Dassey v. Dittmann, (United States Supreme Court, 2018) Co-lead counsel, with former U.S. Solicitor General, in federal habeas action involving sixteen-year-old who confessed to rape-murder during police interrogation in globally high-profile case. State v. Andersen, 80-CR-1405 (Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, 2015) Co-counsel in post-conviction action involving a nineteen-year-old who falsely confessed to murder. Yates v. County of St. Clair et al., 14-CV (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, 2015) Co-counsel in civil rights action on behalf of seventeen-year-old who falsely confessed to armed robbery during police interrogation. State v. Villegas, No. 94 ODO 9328 (Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 2013) Co-counsel in post-conviction action and retrial involving sixteen-year-old who falsely confessed to double murder. Newman v. Gaetz, No. 08 CV 4240 (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2012) (affirmed, Newman v. Harrington, 726 F.3d 921 (7 th Cir. 2013)) Co-counsel in federal habeas corpus action and in subsequent retrial involving a sixteenyear-old charged with murder. People v. Taylor et al., 92 CR & 95 CR (Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, 2011) ( Dixmoor Five ) Co-counsel in post-conviction action involving five convicted teenagers, three of whom had falsely confessed to rape-murder during police interrogation. J.D.B. v. North Carolina, 131 S.Ct (United States Supreme Court, 2011) 2

3 Counsel amicus curiae on behalf of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth in support of juvenile defendant J.D.B. The majority opinion (Sotomayor, J.) held that a child s age must be considered as part of the Miranda custody calculus and cited to the Center s amicus brief to find that the risk of false confession is all the more troubling [and] all the more acute when the suspect is a juvenile. Echols v. State, No. CR (Arkansas State Court, 2011) Co-counsel on behalf of alleged ringleader of the West Memphis Three, who was sentenced to death in internationally-known triple murder case. In re T.C., (Arkansas Supreme Court, 2010) Counsel amicus curiae in support of twelve-year-old defendant T.C. PUBLICATIONS Laura Nirider, Richard Leo, and Deborah Davis, Interrogative Suggestibility, in Litigator s Handbook of Forensic Medicine, Psychiatry & Psychology, Demosthenes Lorandos, ed., Thomson Reuters Press (2018) (forthcoming). Laura Nirider, Megan Crane, and Steven Drizin, Gerald Gault, Meet Brendan Dassey: Preventing Juvenile False and Coerced Confessions in the 21 st Century, reprinted in Rights, Race, and Reform: 50 Years of Child Advocacy in the Juvenile Justice System, Laura Cohen et al., eds., Routledge Press (2018) (forthcoming). Laura Nirider, Megan Crane, and Steven Drizin, Gerald Gault, Meet Brendan Dassey: Preventing Juvenile False and Coerced Confessions in the 21 st Century, NACDL Champion at (April 2017). Megan Crane, Laura Nirider, and Steven A. Drizin, The Truth About Juvenile False Confessions, American Bar Association Insights on Law & Society 16.2 (Winter 2016). Redlich, A. D., Shteynberg, R., & Nirider, L. (2014, June). Did You Say I Could Go Home? The Influence of Implied Statements of Leniency on Juveniles and Adults. Paper presented at the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group, Lausanne, Switzerland. Steven A. Drizin, Laura H. Nirider, and Joshua A. Tepfer, Juvenile Justice Investigation: Plot Contamination, Cultural Stereotypes, and the Scripting of Juvenile False Confessions, in Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back, Moving Forward, Allison Redlich et al., ed. (2014) Joshua A. Tepfer, Laura H. Nirider, & Steven A. Drizin, Scrutinizing Confessions in a New Era of Juvenile Jurisprudence, Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association (Vol. 50, Issue 1) (Jan. 2014) 3

4 Laura H. Nirider, Opinion Editorial: Recording Interrogations Should Be the Norm, Arizona Republic (April 22, 2013) Steven A. Drizin, Joshua A. Tepfer, Laura H. Nirider, & James Nawoichyk, Reducing Risk: An Executive Guide to Effective Juvenile Interview and Interrogation (published by the International Association of Chiefs of Police in partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice) (September 2012) Laura H. Nirider, Investigative Strategies in Confession Cases, American Bar Association Litigation Section s Children s Rights Litigation Newsletter (Summer 2012, vol. 14, no. 4) Joshua A. Tepfer & Laura H. Nirider, Adjudicated Juveniles and Collateral Relief, 64 Maine L. Rev. 554 (2012) Laura H. Nirider, Joshua A. Tepfer, & Steven A. Drizin, Combating Contamination in Confession Cases: A Review of Brandon L. Garrett s Convicting the Innocent, 79 Univ. Chi. L. Rev. 837 (2012) Laura H. Nirider, Opinion Editorial: Keep Kids Out of Adult Criminal Court, Chicago Tribune, December 23, 2011 Laura H. Nirider & Joshua A. Tepfer, Juvenile Interviewing Techniques, International Association of Chiefs of Police Training Key #652 (2011) Joshua A. Tepfer, Laura H. Nirider, & Lynda M. Tricarico, Arresting Development: Convictions of Innocent Youth, 62 Rutg. L. Rev. 891 (2010) COURSES TAUGHT Clinical Practice: Wrongful Convictions and Juvenile Justice, Northwestern University School of Law, with Steven Drizin and Joshua Tepfer (listed professor from present; co-taught this course as a Fellow with Steven Drizin and Joshua Tepfer from ) SELECTED LECTURES, TRAININGS, AND PRESENTATIONS Confession Law in Sex Abuse Cases (November 2017) Keynote speaker at National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers annual sex crimes conference (Las Vegas, NV) The Confession Tapes: An Inside Look at False Confessions (November 2017) Panelist at Kirkland & Ellis LLP event featuring director of Netflix series The Confession Tapes (Chicago, IL) Freeing David McCallum (October 2017) Moderator of author and exoneree panel at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law 4

5 (Chicago, IL) Brendan Dassey: A True Story of False Confession (August 2017) Keynote speaker at Minnesota Criminal Justice Institute s annual conference (Minneapolis, MN) Confession Analysis: Breaking Down the Confession of Elias V. (August 2017) Featured speaker at Minnesota Criminal Justice institute s annual conference (Minneapolis, MN) Litigating False and Coerced Confession Cases After Brendan Dassey (June 2017) Featured speaker at National Forensics College s annual national training event (New York, NY) A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (April 2017) Keynote speaker at the Colorado Public Defender s Symposium on the Fiftieth Anniversary of In re Gault (Denver, Colorado) Working with the Media in Innocence Cases: Ethical & Strategic Considerations (March 2017) Featured speaker at Innocence Network s annual conference (San Diego, CA) Litigating False Confession Cases: Time-Tested and Innovative Approaches to the Use of Expert Testimony (March 2017) Featured speaker at Innocence Network s annual conference (San Diego, CA) Making a Murderer: The Case of Brendan Dassey (March 2017) Plenary speaker at American Psychological Association Law Section s annual conference (Seattle, WA) Of Gault and Dassey: The Guiding Hand of Counsel in the Twenty-First Century (February 2017) Plenary speaker, National Institute of Trial Advocacy Midwest Training Program (Chicago, IL) Miranda & Juvenile Justice (February 2017) Featured speaker at American Bar Association s Summit on Public Defense (Miami, FL) A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (December 2016) Plenary speaker at Minnesota County Attorney s Association annual conference (Minneapolis, MN) A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (December 2016) Honoree and keynote speaker, Moon Lecture Series (Sacramento, CA) Women Wildcats in the Workplace (October 2016) 5

6 Plenary speaker at Association of Northwestern University Women networking event (Evanston, IL) 50 Years After Miranda & 5 Years After JDB: Where Are We Now and Where Do We Want to Be? (October 2016) Plenary speaker at National Juvenile Defender Center s Annual Summit (Atlanta, GA) From the Classroom to the Interrogation Room: Police Interrogations at School (October 2016) Featured speaker at National Juvenile Defender Center s Annual Summit (Atlanta, GA) A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (October 2016) Plenary speaker at Minnesota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers annual conference (Minneapolis, MN) A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (October 2016) Featured speaker at McDermott, Will, & Emery s globally-streamed CLE event (Chicago, IL) General Remarks on False Confessions and Innocence Work (September 2016) Keynote speaker at University of Baltimore School of Law clinical launch (Baltimore, MD) General Remarks on False Confessions and Innocence Work (September 2016) Keynote speaker at Innocence Project of Minnesota gala (Minneapolis, MN) A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (September 2016) Featured speaker at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Minneapolis alumni club event (Minneapolis, MN) Interrogations and Confessions in the Private Sector (July 2016) Keynote speaker at Restaurant Loss Prevention and Security Association annual conference (San Antonio, TX) Cutting-Edge Motion Practice: Litigating Reliability (June 2016) Plenary speaker at National Forensic College s annual training conference (New York, MN) A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (June 2016) Plenary speaker at Ramsey County Public Defenders training conference (St. Paul, MN) Interrogations and Confessions in the Private Sector (June 2016) Featured speaker at Restaurant Loss Prevention and Security Association regional conference (Chicago, IL) Making a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (April 2016) 6

7 Keynote speaker at Tulsa County Bar Association s annual Law Day conference (Tulsa, OK) A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (April 2016) Featured speaker at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni event (Chicago, IL) A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (February 2016) Featured speaker at St. Thomas University School of Law (Minneapolis, MN) Police Interrogations, False Confessions, and the Robert Davis Case (November 2014) Featured speaker at the Virginia Bar Association s Capital Defense Workshop (Richmond, VA) Comparative Justice: An Introduction to Chinese and American Wrongful Convictions (July 2014) Lecturer before audience of Chinese prosecutors hosted by the Twenty-First Century Institute (Chicago, IL) Kids, Cops, and Interrogations (June 2014) Speaker at Northwestern University summer program for high school students interested in legal careers (Chicago, IL) Introduction to Police Interrogations and False Confessions (June 2014) Featured speaker at the Kentucky statewide public defenders annual conference (Erlanger, KY) Working with a Police Interrogations and False Confessions Expert (June 2014) Featured speaker at the Kentucky statewide public defenders annual conference (Erlanger, KY) Police Interrogations, False Confessions, and the Robert Davis Case (May 2014) Featured speaker at University of Richmond s conference on juvenile false confessions (Richmond, VA) Litigating a False Confession Case (May 2014) Featured speaker at University of Richmond s conference on juvenile false confessions (Richmond, VA) The Conscious Curriculum: Deliberately Designed Collaborative Courses to Further Law Students Mastery of Core Lawyering Traits (April 2014) Presentation at American Association of Law Schools annual conference concerning the integration of experiential learning into law school curricula (Chicago, IL) Un-Smelling the Skunk: Litigating a False Confession Case Post-Conviction (April 2014) 7

8 Training presentation sponsored by the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys at the annual Innocence Network conference (Portland, OR) Women and False Confessions (March 2014) Featured speaker at conference hosted by the Center on Wrongful Convictions Women s Project (Chicago, IL) Police Interrogations, False Confessions, and the Robert Davis Case (January 2014) Featured speaker at Washington & Lee Law School s national symposium on false confessions (Lexington, VA) Preparing to Fight a False Confession at Trial (January 2014) Panelist at Washington & Lee Law School s national symposium on false confessions (Lexington, VA) Introduction to Juvenile Interrogations and Confessions (November 2013) Presentation to psychology students at Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL) A New Juvenile Jurisprudence: Interrogations and Beyond (October 2013) Presentation to Arkansas juvenile public defenders at annual conference on the applicability of principles articulated in J.D.B. to other areas of the law (Little Rock, AR) Juvenile Interrogations and Confessions (October 2013) Presentation to Arkansas juvenile public defenders at annual conference (Little Rock, AR) Interrogating Juveniles: A Practical Guide, Chicago Police Academy (February 2013) Presentation to graduating class of 70 new Chicago Police Department detectives regarding juvenile interrogation best practices (Chicago, IL) Juvenile False Confessions & the West Memphis Three (June 2012) Presentation to Illinois police trainees regarding juvenile false confessions (Chicago, IL) A New Approach to Confessions: Admissibility Predicated on Reliability?, Innocence Network National Conference (March 2012) Panelist-presenter on pre-trial confession suppression hearings (Kansas City, KS) Stealing Innocence: Juvenile Legal Issues and the Innocence Project, Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender Symposium (Jan. 2012) Panelist-presenter on the Illinois exonerations of the Dixmoor Five and Englewood Four (New York City, NY) J.D.B. and the Future of Custodial Interrogations, Illinois Public Defender Association (Oct. 2011) Training presentation to 50 Illinois juvenile defenders on issues relating to custodial interrogations of youth in the wake of J.D.B. v. North Carolina (Springfield, IL) 8

9 Lessons Learned from the West Memphis Three, Westwood College (Sept. 2011) Presentation regarding juvenile false confessions to Illinois police trainees (Chicago, IL) Juvenile False Confessions (Aug. 2011) Training presentation to 100 Florida juvenile defenders on issues relating to custodial interrogations of youth, hosted by Barry University Juvenile Justice Center (Florida) The West Memphis Three (Aug. 2011) Guest on Legal Talk Network s Lawyer2Lawyer podcast; discussed release of the West Memphis Three (nationwide) Innovative Ideas in Advocacy: Challenging Juvenile Confessions (June 2011) Training presentation before over 150 Illinois Juvenile Defenders on issues relating to custodial interrogation of youth at Northwestern University School of Law (Chicago, IL) So Your Client Confessed: Now What? (April 2011) Presentation to Illinois Public Defenders Association concerning investigative strategies in confession cases (Springfield, IL) Investigating Children Convicted of Crimes (October 2010) Lecture to approximately 100 chiefs of police in Chicago area concerning best investigative and interrogation practices for youthful suspects (Evanston, IL) Out of the Mouths of Babes: False Confessions and the Wrongful Convictions of Youth (October 2009) Introductory speaker at launch event for the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth (Chicago, IL) SELECTED PRESS EXPERIENCE Interviewed and featured extensively in Seasons One and Two of Making a Murderer, an Emmy-winning Netflix Global series addressing the case of client Brendan Dassey (2015 & 2018) Interviewed and featured in West of Memphis, a 2012 BAFTA-nominated documentary about the West Memphis Three. Regularly interviewed and quoted by international, national, and local media across a variety of platforms. Representative media exposure includes Dateline NBC, Nightline, the New York Times, Radio New Zealand, Raidió Teilifis Éireann (Ireland), Forbes, Rolling Stone, The Guardian (UK), The New Yorker, Esquire, Vogue, Illinois Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, and the Chicago Tribune. SELECTED EXPERT AND POLICY CONSULTATIONS Peer reviewer concerning interrogation and confession psychological scholarship 9

10 (solicited), Law and Human Behavior (2017) Peer reviewer/referee concerning interrogation and confession legal scholarship (solicited), Yale Law Journal (2014) Consultant for Illinois S.B. 2995, which permits inmates who pled guilty to request postconviction forensic testing (enacted into law in 2014) False confessions consultant, People v. Randy Williams, 12-CR (Kentucky 2013) Expert witness on false confessions, In the Interest of T.D., 10-J & 004 (Kentucky 2013) Consultant in support of Arkansas Video Interrogation Project re: Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 4.7, recommending that all custodial interrogations be electronically recorded (Arkansas 2012) Expert witness on juvenile interrogations and confessions in support of the executive clemency petition of Robert Paul Davis (Virginia 2012). Clemency granted December Consultant in support of Illinois H.B. 85, which proposed limiting the admissibility of confessions from juveniles (2011) RECOGNITION Recipient, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law s Dawn Clark Netsch Public Service Award (2017) Annual Gala Honoree, Young Women in Law (Toronto, Canada) (2017) Recipient, National Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth s Healing & Hope Award (2016) Thomas M. Cooley Law School s Distinguished Brief Award 2013 Amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth and Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan in People v. Kadeem White (Michigan Supreme Court 2013) National Law Journal s Brief of the Week (Feb. 9, 2011) Amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, J.D.B. v. North Carolina (U.S. Supreme Court 2011) National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of outstanding service in Echols v. State (2010) Member, Advanced Juvenile Interview Interrogation Techniques Advisory Board, International 10

11 SERVICE Association of Chiefs of Police Board Member, Justice Council of the Center on Wrongful Convictions Member, Jane Raley Teaching Excellence and Professional Development Committee, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law ( ) Faculty Problem Advisor and Judge, Julius Miner Moot Court Competition, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law ( ) 11