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V OLUME 50 / N UMBER 2 • D ECEMBER 2017 A P UBLICATION OF THE N ATIONAL D ISTRICT A TTORNEYS A SSOCIATION The PPPRRROOOSSSEEECCCUUUTTTOOORRR — IN THIS ISSUE — YEAR IN REVIEW: 2017 NDAA TRAINING HIGHLIGHTS MY WRONGFUL CONVICTION CHANGE OF HEART: AURORA OFFICERS’ EFFORTS PROMPT SISTERS TO RETHINK OPINIONS ABOUT POLICE COMBATTING CRIME ON THE DARK WEB LOVE, HOPE, AND RANDOM DRUG TESTING: “RADICAL” STRATEGIES FOR TURNING LIVES AROUND D OCKOn Ethe T NEW NDAA Capital Conference COURSE Human Sex Trade and Labor Trafficking January 23–24, 2018 March 5 –8, 2018 Washington, DC Miami, FL NEW Prosecutors’ Center of Excellence COURSE Prosecutor 101: Boot Camp 11th National Best Practices Meeting March 12 –15, 2018 January 25, 2018 Kansas City, MO Washington, DC Prosecuting Homicide Digital Prosecutor March 26 –29, 2018 February 19–22, 2018 Louisville, KY San Antonio, TX To register or obtain additional information about a course, see our website: www.ndaa.org National District Attorneys Association, Arlington, VA / 703.549.9222 / 703.836.3195 fax Stay Tuned for the Announcement of our 2nd, 3rd and 4th Quarter 2018 National Courses in next month’s The Prosecutor !!! 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T HE P ROSECUTOR 3 ROSTof OEfficeR rs and Board Members 2017–2018 President Vice Presidents Directors-at-Large Associate Directors MICHAEL O. F REEMAN 1, 2 DANIEL CONLEY 1 HILLAR MOORE DEBRA B. A RMANINI County Attorney District Attorney District Attorney First Assistant Prosecuting Minneapolis, Minnesota Boston, Massachusetts Baton Rouge, Louisiana Attorney President-elect KEITH KANESHIRO PETE ORPUT Dayton, Ohio JONATHAN BLODGETT 1, 2 Prosecuting Attorney COUNTY ATTORNEY MARY ASHLEY District Attorney Honolulu, Hawaii STILLWATER , M INNESOTA Assistant District Attorney Salem, Massachusetts CYRUS VANCE MATT WILBER San Bernardino, County Attorney California Chairman of the Board District Attorney New York, New York Council Bluffs, Iowa MICHAEL RAMOS 1, 2 DAVID C. B ROWN Prosecutor Coordinators District Attorney JAMES NAGLE Chief Deputy County 1 San Bernardino, Prosecuting Attorney CHUCK SPAHOS Attorney California Walla Walla, Washington Executive Director Minneapolis, Minnesota Prosecuting Attorneys Treasurer/Secretary GREG TOTTEN 1 Council of Georgia LORI DIGIOSIA DUFFIE STONE 1 District Attorney Morrow, Georgia Depu ty Commonwealth’s Solicitor Attorney Ventura, California CAMMIE WYATT Bluffton, South Carolina Stafford, Virginia 1 President, NAPC Asst Treasurer/Secretary AMY WEIRICH District Attorney Director MIKE DOUGHERTY DAVE ARONBERG Memphis, Tennessee Mississippi Prosecutors’ Assistant District Attorney State’s Attorney Training Golden, Colorado BILL MONTGOMERY 1 Palm Beach, Florida Jackson, Mississippi Past Treasurer/Secretary County Attorney JOHN D. E VANS Phoenix, Arizona LEMUEL MARTINEZ Assistant Prosecuting District Attorney RAY MORROGH 2 Attorney Grants, New Mexico Co mmonwealth’s Clayton, Missouri Attorney JOSEPH KOENIG Fairfax, Virginia Deputy Prosecuting KIMBERLY N. O VERTON 1 Attorney Chief Resource Prosecutor Washington, Indiana Cary, North Carolina RICHARD MINATOYA NANCY PARR Deputy Prosecuting Commonwealth’s Attorney Attorney Maui, Hawaii Chesapeake, Virginia TIMOTHY J. C RUZ District Attorney Plymouth, Massachusetts 1 Executive Committee 2 Executive Working Group TO BE THE VOICE OF AMERICA’S PROSECUTORS AND TO SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS AND SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE. 4 D ECEMBER / 2017 Past Presidents Past Vice Presidents Past Vice Presid State Directors MICHAEL RAMOS 1, 2 JAMES C. B ACKSTROM LEE POLIKOV MIKE O’D ELL , Alabama District Attorney County Attorney County Attorney GREGG OLSON , Alaska 1 San Bernardino, California Hastings, Minnesota Papillion, Nebraska BILL MONTGOMERY , Arizona TOM TATUM II, Arkansas WILLIAM J. F ITZPATRICK 1, 2 MATTHEW REDLE JULIA BATES DEAN FLIPPO , California District Attorney County Attorney Prosecuting Attorney STAN GARNETT , Colorado Syracuse, New York Sheridan, Wyoming Toledo, Ohio GAIL HARDY , Connecticut MICHAEL R. M OORE JOHN P. S ARCONE MATT DENN , Delaware KEVIN J. B AXTER State’s Attorney County Attorney BILL CERVONE , Florida Prosecuting Attorney Des Moines, Iowa Huron, South Dakota Sandusky, Ohio VIC REYNOLDS , Georgia HENRY GARZA 2 JOHN W. S INQUEFIELD KEITH KANESHIRO , Hawaii BRADLEY C. B ERRY Special Assistant Attorney GRANT LOEBS , Idaho District Attorney District Attorney Belton, Texas General JOSEPH H. M CMAHON , Illinois McMinnville, Oregon Baton Rouge, Louisiana KEITH HENDERSON , Indiana JOSEPH I. C ASSILLY KEVIN COCKRELL MARK A. S ORSAIA ALAN OSTERGREN , Iowa State’s Attorney County Attorney Prosecuting Attorney MARC BENNETT , Kansas Bel Air, Maryland Mt. Sterling, Kentucky Winfield, West Virginia VACANT , Kentucky SCOTT HIXSON PAUL D. C ONNICK , J R., Louisiana MATHIAS H. H ECK , J R. HENRY VALDEZ STEPHANIE ANDERSON , Maine Prosecuting Attorney Deputy Solicitor Director, New Mexico J. C HARLES SMITH III, Maryland Dayton, Ohio Georgetown, South Carolina Administrative Office of JOSEPH EARLY , J R., Massachusetts JACKIE LACEY District Attorneys ROBERT MCCULLOCH 1 DAVID LEYTON , Michigan District At torney Santa Fe, New Mexico MARK OSTREM , Minnesota Prosecuting Attorney Los Angel es, California Clayton, Missouri SHERRI BEVANS WALSH RONNIE L. H ARPER , Mississippi BARBARA LAWALL Prosecuting Attorney ERIC ZAHND , Missouri Prosecutor Associations County Attorney Akron, Ohio MIKE WEBER , Montana WILLIAM JORDEN Tucson, Arizona DONALD KLEINE , Nebraska President JOSHUA K. M ARQUIS BRYCE SHIELDS , Nevada National Black Prosecutors District Attorney VACANT , New Hampshire Association Astoria, Oregon CAMELIA VALDES , New Jersey Baton Rouge, Louisiana ERIC L. O LSEN DONALD GALLEGOS , New Mexico DAVID SOARES , New York ELIZABETH ORTIZ Commonwealth’s Attorney WILLIAM WEST , North Carolina Executive Director Stafford, Virginia BIRCH BURDICK , North Dakota Arizona Prosecuting SCOTT PATTERSON DAVID PHILLIPS , Ohio Attorneys Advisory State’s Attorney GREG MASHBURN , Oklahoma Council Easton, Maryland BRAD BERRY , Oregon National Association of Justice THOMAS P. H OGAN , Pennsylvania Information Systems PETER F. K ILMARTIN , Rhode Island Phoenix, Arizona DUFFIE STONE , South Carolina 1 MARK VARGO , South Dakota RUSSELL JOHNSON , Tennessee DAVID ESCAMILLA , Texas SIM