The 2021 Year in Review with Tamani Taylor, Esq. 1.00 hrs MCLE - General 1.00 hrs Criminal Specialization - Trial Advocacy 1.00 hrs Appellate Specialization Presented at CACJ’s Annual Criminal Defense 2021

When you have a horrifying case with heinous facts and sympathetic victims finding twelve members of the community that will be open to your defense can feel like the impossible task.  While you only have a limited number of preemptory challenges you are entitled to a limitless number of challenges for cause.  Strategic questioning of jurors to expose hidden bias and their inability to follow the law in high stakes cases is key to picking a jury that will give your client the best chance at a good outcome. We often think it is important to select fair and impartial people when in actuality it is far more important identify and remove people who are biased and unfair.

Speaker Bio Tamani Taylor is a Chief Deputy Public Defender in Solano County and has been a lawyer in the Solano County Public Defender’s Office since 2007. She has represented clients in juvenile, misdemeanor, felony, and death penalty cases. She is an experienced trial lawyer and has tried murder cases, sex cases, and other serious and violent felony cases. Ms. Taylor is a California Public Defender’s Association (CPDA) board member. She’s a faculty member for CPDA’s Annual Basic Trial Skills Institute. A committee member for the Capital Defense Seminar. And she is on the California Lawyers Association’s Executive Committee (CLA) on Criminal Law.