As a defense mitigation specialist, Whitman said he constructed a report of Emile’s social history with the hope of providing insight into her background that may inform the court in the ...

The defense-team member is Arias' "mitigation specialist," an investigator who gathers evidence and anecdotes from the defendant's life to try to persuade the jury not to impose the death penalty.

More than $20,000 in expenditures to pay defense experts was approved Wednesday in the case of a man accused of setting a woman on fire and killing her at her Fairfield Twp. home in May.

FLANDREAU, S.D. (KELO) — The man charged in the 2024 death of a Moody County deputy was back in court Thursday afternoon. The judge granted Joseph Hoek a third defense attorney and a mitigation ...

Mitigation specialists come from a variety of backgrounds and typically spend hundreds of hours researching a case, Yackel said. "I haven't done my job until everything makes sense," Yackel said.

Here, the mitigation specialists’ role is closely and exclusively aligned with defense attorneys in cases involving youth. In the training program, the inquirer has been asked to play the role ...

Defense attorney Dan Cooper said the work of a mitigation specialist is tedious but crucial. "It takes a lot of time if you are digging back 20, 30 years," Cooper said.

He accused Gonzalez of firing his defense mitigation specialist and second defense attorney, Arlington Foley, in retaliation for a disciplinary complaint he filed against Gonzalez.