Backchannel: Expert Conversations about Sexual Abuse, Treatment & Prevention

Laurie Kepros, Esq. Legal work with people charged with sex offenses.

October 21, 2021 Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers Season 1 Episode 5
Backchannel: Expert Conversations about Sexual Abuse, Treatment & Prevention
Laurie Kepros, Esq. Legal work with people charged with sex offenses.
Show Notes

Attorney Kepros joins host Alejandro Leguízamo to talk about her work in the field. She is the Director of Sexual Litigation for the Colorado Office of the State Public Defender where she trains and advises over 1,000 lawyers and other staff statewide in their representation of indigent adults and juveniles accused, convicted, and/or survivors of sexual crimes. In over 20 years as a public defender, she has tried and consulted on more than six thousand sexual offense cases. She has served on dozens of subcommittees of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board and Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, and, per the appointment of Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, on the Subcommittee of the Judicial Proceedings Panel which advised the United States Congress on law and policy related to sexual assault in the military. Ms. Kepros was the 2017 recipient of the Olom Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a defense attorney by the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar.