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Post-Conviction Practice Essentials 2026 – Lancaster

  • City:Lancaster County Bar Association, 28 East Orange St., ., Lancaster, PA, 17602
  • Start Date:2026-03-03 13:00:00
  • End Date:2026-03-03 16:20:00
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  • Level:Intermediate
  • Topics:Criminal

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This program is eligible for 3 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 3.6 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.

This is a simulcast of a live webcast course, streamed live to a local site with faculty in remote locations. Please note: Walk-in registrations will not be accepted - you must register in advance.

Overview

Earn Capital Case CLE Credit while mastering the essentials of post-conviction practice.

Wrongful convictions and unlawful sentences often stem from recurring, identifiable errors that surface long after trial. Post-Conviction Practice Essentials 2026 equips attorneys with the tools to recognize and litigate post-conviction claims effectively, from guilt-phase breakdowns to penalty-phase failures, while grounding practitioners in the procedural framework of PCRA and habeas corpus practice.

Sessions include:

  • Guilt-Phase Red Flags: Identifying and Litigating Claims of Wrongful Conviction in Post-Conviction Proceedings
  • Sentencing Under Scrutiny: Penalty-Phase Red Flags and Post-Conviction Challenges
  • Post-Conviction Pathways: An Introduction to PCRA and Federal Habeas Practice

Faculty

Michael Wiseman, Esq.

Michael Wiseman is a criminal practitioner focusing on all aspects of criminal defense at trial, appeal and post-conviction, with an emphasize on capital defense. Prior to entering private practice he was the Chief of Capital Habeas Corpus Unit of Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, from 1995 to 2011. Before that Michael was a senior staff attorney for the Pennsylvania Post-Conviction Defender Organization (1994-1995). He has represented dozens of prisoners in capital post-conviction and trial litigation. His thirty-five plus years of legal experience also includes service as the popularly elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (the Union representing lawyers employed by New York City’s Legal Aid Society), as a staff attorney for the Prisoners’ Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society of the City of New York, and as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Nassau County. Michael graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law in 1981.

Elizabeth A. DeLosa, Esq.

Ms. DeLosa is the Managing Attorney for the Pittsburgh office of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. Before joining the Project’s staff, Ms. DeLosa was employed as a Research and Writing Attorney and Assistant Federal Defender for the Federal Defender’s Office in the District of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Ms. DeLosa is a University of Pittsburgh (B.A.) and Duquesne University School of Law (J.D.) graduate.

Nilam A. Sanghvi, Esq.

Ms. Sanghvi is the Legal Director at the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. Before her employment at the Project, she taught in the Appellate Litigation Program at the Georgetown University Law Center and worked at law firms in New York, Washington DC, and Philadelphia, with a practice focus on appellate litigation. Ms. Sanghvi holds a B.A. from Columbia University and J.D. and LLM degrees from the Georgetown University Law Center. She clerked for Judge William B. Shubb in the Eastern District of California and Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the Third Circuit. In addition, Ms. Sanghvi serves on the board of the Third Circuit Bar Association.

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