PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE KATHERINE MARIS MATTES kmattes@tulane.edu TULANE LAW SCHOOL, New Orleans, LA 2002-present Senior Professor of the Practice Director, Criminal Clinic 2007 to present Teach Criminal Advocacy Seminar as co-requisite to participation in the Criminal Clinic. Direct Criminal Clinic, in which third-year law students represent indigent criminal defendants in pre-trial, appellate, post-conviction and federal habeas litigation. Director, Criminal Litigation Intersession- Boot Camp 2015 to present Director of the criminal track for the law school annual Intersession program, which provides intensive skills training experience in pre-trial criminal litigation. Clinical Instructor, Criminal Clinic 2002 to 2007 Supervised third-year law students in their representation of indigent criminal defendants in trial and appellate litigation. INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS, Staff Attorney, New Orleans, LA 2001-2002 Provided post- conviction legal representation to prisoners who had provable claims of actual innocence. Assisted in the foundation of IPNO. Managed case intake and media strategy. Coordinated volunteer work force, including lawyers, students and lay volunteers and engaged in community outreach activities. Supervised law student interns, helped establish office protocols, assisted in grant writing. OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL FOR THE JUDICIARY COMMISSION OF LA Assistant Special Counsel, New Orleans, LA 1996-1998 Investigated and prosecuted allegations of judicial misconduct and disability, throughout Louisiana, in proceedings before the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana and the Louisiana Supreme Court. 1
OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, San Diego, CA Presiding Deputy Public Defender 1991-1995 Represented indigent defendants at all trial stages of their criminal cases. Supervised trial team of three lawyers and two law clerks Served as liaison between judges, deputy marshals, court personnel and litigation team members, resolving conflicts, arranging the calendar, setting court procedure Trained attorneys and law clerks on various subjects relevant to a criminal law practice. EDUCATION University of San Diego School of Law J.D., cum laude, 1991 University of California, Los Angeles B.A., with Honors, 1987 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND AWARDS Drafter/advocate legislation providing parole eligibility to certain habitual offenders serving life without parole, 2016 Drafted and successfully advocated for the passage of Act 469 providing parole eligibility to persons sentenced to life-without-parole for third felony offenses between 1996 and 2001. Testimony at Louisiana legislative hearings, Baton Rouge, 2016 Implications of United States Supreme Court ruling in Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Alabama. At the request of the Louisiana Center for Children s Rights. New Orleans Police Department Superintendents Coin for Service of Distinction, 2016 Member New Orleans Behavioral Health Council, Criminal Justice Workgroup 2015 to present A workgroup of the New Orleans Health Department and Metropolitan Human Services District, addressing the intersection behavioral health issues and the criminal justice system in New Orleans. New Orleans City Business Women of the Year Award, 2014 Testimony at Texas legislative hearing, Austin, TX, 2013 Implications of United States Supreme Court ruling in Miller v. Alabama. At the request of Texas State Representative Abel Herrero. 2
Board of Directors, Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana, 2011 to present Serve as Director on the Board of Directors for State funded agency representing death sentenced Louisiana defendants in post-conviction. Member Greater New Orleans Drug Demand Reduction Task Force, 2011 to 2013 The Drug Demand Reduction Task Force, convened by former U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, is a coalition of community stakeholders, including the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff, the Orleans Parish District Attorney, the Chief Judge of Municipal Court, the Director Metropolitan Human Resources., working on developing a strategic plan aimed at reducing drug use and related crime in Orleans Parish. Member Advisory Board, Post-Conviction DNA Testing Project, 2009 to 2014 Serve on seven member board, advising Director of Project which is funded by 1.3 million dollar grant from the Department of Justice to identify and test biological evidence in Orleans parish for actual innocence claims. Drafter/advocate, Louisiana Competency to Stand Trial Statutes, 2008 Drafted and successfully advocated on behalf of legislation amending Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Articles 641 et seq., dealing with procedures relating to defendants who are incompetent to stand trial. Criminal defense bar representative to ASPIRES, 2007 to 2013 Represent the interests of the criminal defense bar in ASPIRES - Accountability, Strategic Planning & Integration of Evidence Systems Testimony Louisiana legislative hearings, Baton Rouge, LA, 2006, 2007, and 2008 Criminal defendants found incompetent to stand trial. At the request of the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. Papers for Prisoners/ALLIES, 2008 to present Faculty coordinator of program designed to match volunteer law students with Louisiana inmates who need assistance locating legal documents. Co-founder and member, Orleans Parish Forensic Mental Health Council 2007-2009, 2014 to present Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Project, Clinical Legal Education Assoc., 2007 Award received on behalf of the Criminal Clinic for the Backlog and Katrina-Gideon Interview Project a post-katrina project locating, interviewing and representing thousands of indigent criminal defendants incarcerated in Orleans Parish Prison at the time of Hurricane Katrina. Volunteer counseling attorney, National Homeless Veterans Rally, San Diego, CA 1993, 1994 3
SELECTED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS and TRAININGS Tulane Forensic Psychiatry Symposium, New Orleans, LA, 2016 Panelist, The Tortorici Shooting: Legal Ethics in Prosecuting Insanity Cases New Orleans Police Department Academy, New Orleans, LA, 2014 to present Train NOPD recruit classes: Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion. Ukrainian Delegation through the U.S. State Department, New Orleans, LA, 2015 Presented, Clinical pedagogy and the Louisiana Criminal Justice System. Neuroscience and Criminal Law ; Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2015 African Delegation through the U.S. State Department, New Orleans LA, 2014 and 2016 Presented, Clinical pedagogy and the Louisiana Criminal Justice System. National Investigators Conference, New Orleans, 2014 Presented, Investigating and presenting an insanity defense and competency to proceed. International Conference - Transparency in Democratic Process As Seen From the Academy Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Dominican Republic, 2014 Judicial Misconduct and Discipline - at the invitation of the Institute of Comparative Studies of Dominican Republic (INESCO-DR) Louisiana Judicial College Summer School, Sandestin, FL, 2013 Presenter, Mental Illness in the Criminal Arena - Where Are We? Inns of Court, 2012 Presenter, Criminal Justice and Mental Illness in New Orleans Louisiana Judicial College Summer School, Sandestin FL, 2011 Presenter, Competency to Stand Trial. Louisiana Judicial College, Evidence & Procedure Seminar, New Orleans LA, 2011 Presenter, Mental Health Issues in Criminal Cases: Atkins and other issues relating to Mental Illness, Mental Retardation and Competency to Proceed The International Conference on Clinical Legal Education, UCLA, 2010 Presenter, COMPLEX CLINICAL CLIENTS: Changing the Treatment of Criminal Defendants Who Are Incompetent to Stand Trial in Louisiana Defender Training Institute, Baton Rouge, LA, 2010 and 2011 Faculty at Public Defenders Skills Training Series 4
National Alliance of Sentencing Advocates and Mitigation Specialists, 2009 Presenter, Unique Considerations in Working with Domestic Violence Victims Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, CLE program, New Orleans, LA, 2012 Insanity defense law and practice in Louisiana Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, CLE program, Alexandria, LA, 2011 Insanity defense law and practice in Louisiana Orleans Parish Public Defenders Office, Training/CLE program, New Orleans, LA 2009 Insanity defense law and practice in Louisiana Orleans Parish Public Defenders Office, Training/CLE program, New Orleans, LA Annually, 2007 to 2012; 2016 to present New Orleans Bar Association CLE Procrastinator s Program, New Orleans, LA, 2008 Panelist: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Loyola Law School Guest Lecturer, New Orleans, LA Annually, 2008 to 2015 Disparate Treatment of the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice Systems Orleans Parish District Attorney Candidate Forum on Domestic Violence and Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System, New Orleans, LA 2008 Co-moderator National Innocence Project Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2008 ASPIRES Panelist: Working across the usual divides Tulane Forensic Psychiatry Department Fellow Didactic Lecture Series, New Orleans, LA Annually, 2007 to present Bail to Jail: The criminal justice system in New Orleans Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, CLE program, New Orleans, LA, 2007 Tulane Law School Continuing Education Program, New Orleans, LA 2006 and 2008 San Diego Office of Public Defender CLE program, San Diego, CA, 2006 The effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Louisiana legal system 5
Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, CLE program, New Orleans, LA, 2006 Katrina s Wake: Evidence issues and related defenses ACLU/Gillis W. Long Poverty Law Center, Loyola University, CLE program, New Orleans, LA, 2001 Reparations for Wrongful Convictions SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES, COMMENTARY & CONSULTING Interviewed, BBC World Service News Hour, aired April 15, 2016 Politics and Prisons in the Pelican State, interviewed by Own Bennett Jones http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03qc795 Interviewed, Whole Body Mental Health Radio, aired May 4, 2016 Criminal Justice and Mental Health, interviewed by Dr. Jose Calderon Consultant, quoted, CHASING GIDEON: The Elusive Quest for Poor People s Justice, 2012 by Karen Houppert, published by The New Press publishers; first appearing in The Nation, Locked Up Without a Key in New Orleans Contributor, consultant and video commentator ACLU, 2007 American Civil Liberties Union publication and on-line presentation Broken Promises: 2 years after Katrina. Video segments can be viewed at: http://www.aclu.org/prison/conditions/katrina/katrina.html. Consultant, quoted, IN DEFENSE OF OUR AMERICA: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror, 2007 by Anthony Romero, Dina Temple-Raston, published by Tantor Media Radio/television interview - DEMOCRACY NOW, 2006 Issues relating to the criminal justice system post-katrina, host Amy Goodman. http://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/29/new_orleans_judge_slated_to_release. Investigator, commentator BBC and Lehrer News Hour, 2006 Pursuant to court order, lead and provided commentary for BBC film crew documenting and describing condition of Orleans Parish Criminal Court evidence room post-katrina and prior to remediation. Pursuant to court order, lead and provided commentary for Lehrer News Hour film crew documenting and describing condition of Orleans Parish Police evidence room post- Katrina and prior to remediation. 6
PUBLICATIONS THE TULANE CRIMINAL LAW CLINIC: AN EVOLUTION INTO A COMBINED INDIVIDUAL CLIENT AND ADVOCACY CLINIC, 18 Clinical Law Review 77 (2011) REPRESENTING BATTERED DEFENDANTS IN LOUISIANA A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY S GUIDE TO REPRESENTING VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Competency to Stand Trial (Chapter), LOUISIANA CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS GUIDE TO REPRESENTING DEFENDANTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS, 2011 Insanity Defense (Chapter), LOUISIANA CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS GUIDE TO REPRESENTING DEFENDANTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS, 2011 Incompetent Defendants, (Section), ABANDONED & ABUSED: ORLEANS PARISH PRISONERS IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE KATRINA, American Civil Liberties Union, National Prison Project, 2006 Physicians Assistant Examining Committee, (Comment), THE CALIFORNIA REGULATORY LAW REPORTER, Vol. 9, No. 3: Summer 1989; Vol. 9, No. 4: Fall 1989, and Vol. 10, No. 1: Winter 1990. Board of Doctors of Osteopathy, (Comment), THE CALIFORNIA REGULATORY LAW REPORTER, Vol. 9, No. 3: Summer 1989; Vol. 9, No. 4: Fall 1989, and Vol. 10, No. 1: Winter 1990. BAR MEMBERSHIP CALIFORNIA, State Bar Member - Number 157160 (inactive status) member since 1991 LOUISIANA, State Bar Member -Number 24726 member since 1996 FEDERAL COURTS, United States Supreme Court United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana American Bar Association Louisiana State Bar Association 7