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Modern Criminal Law Practice: Updates and Evidentiary Challenges

SKU: CRIM4200

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This CLE program provides a practitioner focused update on modern criminal law developments across four major jurisdictions: Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, and California. Participants will explore the most significant statutory reforms of the last 2–3 years—including new criminal offenses, sentencing revision laws, expanded judicial discretion, updated bail frameworks, and evolving victims’ rights protections—alongside emerging evidentiary and search and seizure challenges shaped by digital technology, AI generated evidence, and enhanced surveillance tools.

Drawing on recent legislation such as New York’s Judicial Security Act, Texas’s creation of new offenses and penalty enhancements under the 89th Legislature, California’s sweeping resentencing reforms under AB 600, and Pennsylvania’s major criminal law developments, including the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Commonwealth v. Shifflett prohibiting the use of ARD as a sentencing enhancement in DUI cases and the ongoing expansion of Clean Slate and probation reform legislation, this course equips attorneys with the knowledge needed to navigate rapidly shifting criminal justice landscapes and to prepare effective strategies for investigation, litigation, negotiation, and trial.

Lecturer Bio

Robert Petrone

Robert F. Petrone served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx District Attorney’s Office in the mid to late 1990s after graduating Temple University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and a law degree from Temple University School of Law. In December of 1998, he returned home to serve as an Assistant District Attorney at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, where he remained until 2023.

Over the course of his career in both jurisdictions, he served in multiple trial and appellate units, gaining extensive experience in litigation, courtroom practice, and complex criminal law issues. He now practices in Philadelphia Family Court as the attorney for victims of domestic violence through Congreso de Latinos Unidos, and in 2025 became Managing Attorney of Congreso’s Domestic Violence Legal Services program. In his more than thirty years of practice, he has used his multilingual skills to communicate effectively with victims, witnesses, and survivors in diverse communities, including assisting a client with an international Hague Petition that secured the return of the client’s child from Colombia. He continues to work closely with social service providers at Congreso.

Drawing on decades of trial work, appellate advocacy, and forensic evidence litigation across two major prosecutorial offices, Mr. Petrone brings a seasoned, practitioner focused perspective to modern criminal law updates and evidentiary challenges, particularly those arising from rapidly evolving statutory reforms, digital evidence, cross jurisdictional criminal practice, and the shifting standards that now shape courtroom strategy and case outcomes.

The National Academy of Continuing Legal Education is a Florida Bar Accredited CLE Sponsor (Sponsor # 0185716). To view our full accreditation details, please .

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Modern Criminal Law Practice: Updates and Evidentiary Challenges

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Robert Petrone

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