SIGN UP for TMS on January 25, 2011 in NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE!!

TMS is pleased to announce that we're offering the Testifying Made Simple program in NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE!!

Date:
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
8:00 am -5:00 pm

Location of Training:
Regional Organized Crime Information Center
545 Marriott Drive, Suite 850
Nashville, TN 37214

Register Online at:
www.regonline.com/TestifyingMadeSimple-Nashville-012511

SIGN UP for Upcoming TMS Seminars in Florida

Testifying Made Simple has individual student spots available for the following TMS seminar dates:

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
8am-5pm
@ Palm Beach State College (Lake Worth, FL).
To register, contact Jill Reiter with PBSC @561.868.3407

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
8am-5pm
@ Surfside PD (Surfside, FL).
To register, contact John Di Censo with Surfside PD @ jdicenso@townofsurfsidefl.gov

Friday, December 10, 2010
8am-5pm
@ the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (Tallahassee, FL).
To register, contact Sheila Smith with FDLE @850.410.7348

***Seating is Limited***

TMS at the 2010 High Liability Instructor Conference in Havana, FL

The 2010 High Liability Instructor Conference is featuring Testifying Made Simple Workshops on:

Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 1:00 pm-5:00 pm, and
Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 8:00 am-12:00 noon

Please contact the Florida Public Safety Institute to register:
75 College Drive
Havana, Florida 32333
850.201.7000
Floridapsi.com

FDLE Opens 2nd TMS Class

Due to an overwhelming response to our “Testifying Made Simple” class in St. Augustine on March 8, 2010,
FDLE will offer a second class of this same training on the next day, March 9^th , at the same location in St.Augustine!

If you are on the wait list for the March 8^th class, or have not yet registered, then please read the information below pertaining to this class and how you can register!

SIGN UP for the March 8, 2010 FDLE Hosted TMS Seminar in St. Augustine, FL.

The TMS Seminar is available for: GROUPS and/or INDIVIDUALS.

Option 1: Agencies/Schools/Organzitions can have the TMS program brought directly to their Group, OR

Option 2: Individuals from Agencies/Schools/Organizations can enroll in a TMS seminar Hosted by The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) at a predetermined location set by FDLE.

TMS, Inc. & FDLE teamed up to make the Testifying Made Simple Program Available to INDIVIDUAL Law Enforcement Personnel. Below are the details for the next FDLE hosted TMS seminar:

WHERE: First Coast Technical College
3460 Gaines Road
St. Augustine, FL 32084

WHEN: MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010; 8am-5pm

COST: $150 per student

TO ENROLL: Students can register online at:
www.regonline.com/TestifyingMadeSimple-StAugustine-030810 ; or
Contact Claude Pichard at (850)410-7025 or
email claudepichard@fdle.state.fl.us.

Letter to the Editor...The Town-Crier Online 12/11/09

Kudos To Michelle Santamaria

Personally, I’m grateful that the Santamaria family not only resides in our county, but their contribution has been outstanding. Having come here from the Philippines, County Commissioner Jess Santamaria had to overcome the obstacles associated with a new home/country, get an education and then succeed in business and starting a family. His family’s history is one of the great American success stories. No connections, no automatic open doors to higher education. No — everything had to come from within.

Through studying and hard work, Jess succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of most, and now sits as our non-political county commissioner. His long history of supporting charities continues, and he accepts no money for his time and effort as our county commissioner.

He gives frequent symposiums on some important subject to get public input — something unheard of before — and he brings experts in the field to assist. This on his dime and time!

During these citizen meetings, his daughter and son (also successful) attend. At these meetings, I have met his (adult) children and am impressed by their knowledge and demeanor. Certainly the apples have not fallen far from the tree.

From a demanding job at the State Attorney’s Office, Michelle Santamaria thought to improve and assist the criminal justice system, and train police in testimony, making them more effective and also better deputies as they know better, during the arrest time-frame, what will be required later.

We are in debt to this young inventive woman because her initiated program will ensure that more criminals indeed will go to jail, saving us untold money and the personal affliction of crime.

I commend our forward-looking sheriff, and I thank Michelle Santamaria for her acumen, and can only hope that one day a text can be initiated to help not only our state, but perhaps countrywide law enforcement. As a retired police officer, I can state unequivocally this is a boon, a new tool, that will make law enforcement more effective.

In the long run, it will save the taxpayer untold money and will affect crime statistics through a more knowledgeable police force.

George Unger, Wellington

The Role of a Defense Attorney

United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218, 256 (1967)

"LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS have the obligation to convict the guilty and to make sure they do not convict the innocent. They must be dedicated to making the criminal trial a procedure for the ascertainment of the true facts surrounding the commission of the crime...

But DEFENSE counsel has NO comparable OBLIGATION to ascertain or present the TRUTH. Our system assigns him a different mission. He must be and is interested in preventing the conviction of the innocent, but, absent a voluntary plea of guilty, we also insist that he defend his client whether he is guilty or innocent...If he can CONFUSE a witness, EVEN A TRUTHFUL ONE, or make him appear at a disadvantage, unsure or indecisive, that will be his normal course.

...as part of our adversary system and as part of the duty imposed on the most honorable DEFENSE counsel, we countenance or require conduct which, in many instances, has little, if any, relation to the search for truth."