TEACHING PROSECUTORS

In addition to her distinguished career trial work, Angela has devoted an equal amount of time and energy to training police and prosecutors on a local, state and national basis.

Prosecutor Training:

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LOCAL

Angela has served as the training director for the State Attorney’s Office in the 4th Judicial Circuit and is now assisting with the training in the 7th Judicial Circuit.

Angela served as an Adjunct Professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law in 1998 and has lectured over the years to various law classes there.

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STATE

Angela has lectured extensively for the Florida Prosecuting Attorney's Association, the organization founded and maintained by the 20 State Attorneys in Florida, one of whose primary functions is education through seminars and publications.

FPAA TOPICS:
“Florida Motion Practice"
“Ethical Issues in Evidence"
“Ethics of Prosecution Closing Arguments”
“Opening Statements/Closing Arguments"

“Search and Seizure: Citizen Encounters to Arrest"

One of the topics on which Angela lectures most frequently for FPAA is Search and Seizure, a seminar conducted annually in 3 areas of the state for police and prosecutors. Angela has lectured on this topic since 1992 and has also taken it to a national level.

Each year the FPAA has its annual conference in various locations around the State of Florida brining in lecturers from all over the state and country. Angela has lectured on the ethical consideration of closing arguments that are still persuasive seven times for the FPAA since 1994. Angela is the only prosecutor from the Fourth Judicial Circuit who has been asked to lecture at the FPAA Annual Conference.

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NATIONAL

Angela has taught both "Overcoming Defense Claims of Reasonable Doubt" and "Trial Commandments and Myths - A Second Look" for the National College of District Attorneys.

Since 2003, Angela has lectured extensively for the American Prosecutor’s Research Institute (APRI) who like the FPAA is tasked with conducting detailed training for prosecutors. The topics on which Angela is asked to lecture annually are Ethics for Prosecutors and Search and Seizure. In fact, Angela was asked to do a videotape lecture on Ethics for Prosecutors that is used as a regular part of APRI’s video training program across the country.

Angela chaired the first FPAA INTERVIEWS AND INTERROGATIONS SEMINAR for FPAA which was held here in Jacksonville in February of 2002. She also presented a lecture on “Miranda and 5th Amendment Right to Counsel”

Angela was invited by the elected D.A.’s in North Carolina to lecture on “Discovery & Deposition Laws in the State of Florida” at the North Carolina District Attorneys Conference, in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina in March, 2004. The elected D.A.’s in the State of North Carolina were all in attendance.

Angela lectured on “The Ethics of Opening Statements and Closing Arguments” to the Colorado District Attorneys Annual Conference, in Copper Mountain, Colorado in September of 2004.