Overcoming Victim/Witness Intimidation: Innovative Prosecutor Tools and Techniques (Webinar)

The ability to gain victim/witness cooperation for a successful prosecution, despite intimidation, is a significant challenge faced by prosecutors across the country.

Webinar speaker John Delaney, former First Assistant District Attorney of Philadelphia with 35+ years of experience as a prosecutor, will share effective tools and techniques to help overcome victim/witness intimidation challenges. These innovative approaches, coupled with real-life examples, are applicable to prosecutors in any jurisdiction.

Tools and techniques to be presented and discussed during this event include:
- Anticipating and recognizing possible and actual intimidation
- Establishing and cultivating relationships with communities
- Courthouse and courtroom security
- Preventing recording in or transmission from the courtroom
- Witness relocation
- Document and video "watermarks"
- Judge's Bench Book (resource)
- Use of indicting grand jury
- Sealed arrest warrants

This webinar is intended for prosecutors seeking strategies to reduce victim/witness intimidation and gain victim/witness cooperation in their jurisdictions.