Hayne Barnwell is pleased to soon be contributing to MACDL's popular and CLE-approved program, Advanced Post-Conviction Litigation Seminar. The seminar will take place on Friday, January 16, 2015, from 8:30am - 5:30pm at Wilmer Hale, 60 State Street, Boston, MA. She will serve on the panel, Legal Challenges to GPS Monitoring, alongside distinguished attorneys, Bonnie Allen (of Northampton, MA), William Newman (of the ACLU and the firm, Lesser Newman & Nasser) and Ryan Schiff (of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, Special Litigation Unit).

The panel will discuss the Supreme Judicial Court's recent major decisions on the constitutionality of mandated GPS monitoring for all Massachusetts defendants, who are convicted of designated sex offenses and who are placed on probation. It will also exchange ideas for potential future challenges to the mandate such as the constitutional prohibitions against cruel or unusual punishment and against unreasonable searches and seizures.