Practical Tips on Preparing for and Presenting Oral Argument
with Cliff Gardner

1.00 General MCLE
1.00 Appellate Law Specialization
1.00 CrimLaw Specialization- Substantive Crim Law and Procedure
1.00 Criminal Specialization Writs, Appeals, and Ancillary Proceedings

Presented at CACJ’s Appellate Law Seminar 2023

Speaker Bio

Clifford Gardner has had a post-conviction practice for the last 41 years, specializing in criminal appellate and habeas corpus representation in state and federal court. He has argued cases at all levels of the state and federal court system, including 20 cases in the California Supreme Court and three cases in the United States Supreme Court. He has represented death row clients in Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Texas, California and the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and lectured and written about appellate and habeas representation generally as well as the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act passed by Congress in 1996. In 2000, he co-authored a California statewide initiative -- the “Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000” (more commonly known as Proposition 36) -- which was enacted by 61% of the electorate on November 7, 2000.