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2010 was the thirty-first anniversary of Western Trial Advocacy Institute. The six day class schedule is available, as well as pictures from lectures, class demonstrations, the barbecue which was held in the Snowy Range Mountains, and from the concluding ceremonies banquet. A number of the student comments are included as well. Each year, the director Bob Rose tries to make the Institute better. He invites and brings in the best, most topical, and sometimes controversial lawyers from the trenches to address the seminar participants and the address the concluding ceremonies banquet. In 2010 for the graduation banquet speaker, the director Bob Rose brought in Tom Fleener from Laramie, Wyoming who has represented suspected "terrorists" being housed at Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Fleener discussed the trials and tribulations (and some actual hearings) representing prisoners kept at Guantanamo Bay, including ones that refused his help and for which he was appointed as stand-by counsel to provide assistance. In 2009 for the graduation banquet speaker, the director Bob Rose brought in nationally recognized defense attorney Albert Krieger, (Past-president of NACDL) who has represented many people charged with crimes including the Native Americans tried in federal court in what has become to be known as Wounded Knee. And in 2008 for the graduation banquet speaker, the director Bob Rose brought in
defense attorney David Wymore who, along with Maria Liu of the Colorado
Alternative Defense Counsel freed the wrongfully convicted Timothy
Masters. Mr. Masters had been accused of the terrible sexual
mutilation and murder of Peggy Hendrick which occurred in 1987 and had served
nearly nine years in prison after a trial and two appeals that occurred nearly
twelve years after her death in 1999. He was finally freed after Wymore
forced the subsequent prosecution team to admit there had been gross discovery
violations by the original prosecutors (who have since been publicly censored)
in the original trial that, had they been revealed, would have exonerated
Masters at the time. Additionally, new DNA techniques called "touch DNA" were
pioneered in this county and confirmed that Masters had nothing to do with
alleged crime. This case has been featured nationally on CNN and on CBS'
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