What GRACE does:

GRACE staff serve as unpaid faculty members and small group leaders in dozens of capital defense seminars and workshops every year through national, state and local bar associations and public defender systems around the country.  We also host our own three-day intensive mitigation skills training at least once per year.  And, we provide one-on-one mentorship to mitigation specialists through the National Capital Punishment Project.  Our Director, Danalynn Recer, is on the faculty of the National Capital Trial Training Consortium, and participates in bringing intensive bring-your-own case trainings to capital defenders all of the country.  She is also on the faculty of the National Capital Voir Dire College, and conducts skills workshops in the Colorado Method of capital jury selection around the country.

Mitigation skills training Bootcamp 2014.

The Gulf Region Advocacy Centre office.



 MORE SERVICES AT GRACE:

Training and Education: 

GRACE staff serve as unpaid faculty members and small group leaders in dozens of capital defense seminars and workshops every year through national, state and local bar associations and public defender systems around the country.  We also host our own three-day intensive mitigation skills training at least once per year.  And, we provide one-on-one mentorship to mitigation specialists through the National Capital Punishment Project.  Our Director, Danalynn Recer, is on the faculty of the National Capital Trial Training Consortium, and participates in bringing intensive bring-your-own case trainings to capital defenders all of the country.  She is also on the faculty of the National Capital Voir Dire College, and conducts skills workshops in the Colorado Method of capital jury selection around the country.

Danalynn speaks at a fundraiser.

Consulting:

GRACE provides consulting services to capital defense teams, helping them find experts, providing litigation samples and research, assisting in the development of a plea strategy, and helping them prepare and use mitigation evidence.  Specifically, we have established a Harris County Capital Pre-Trial Project and our Texas Retrial/Resentencing Project, both initially funded by Equal Justice Works and dependent upon individual donors thereafter.  Our consulting work also includes the development of the Texas Capital Trial Manual, or "Losch Manual," written on a pro bono basis by GRACE staff and distributed statewide by the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association.