Events

06/25/2018 | 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Edenforum is pleased to welcome Judge Cannon and Magistrate Casey on Monday, June 25 at 7:30 in the auditorium.

Evelyn Omega Cannon: Senior Judge Cannon has served the judicial system since 1996. She was twice named one of the Top 100 Women in Maryland for her work in a variety of positions from the Attorney General’s office to Judge-in-Charge, Civil Docket.

James P. Casey: Magistrate Casey has served in the Juvenile Court of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City from 1987 to the present. Among other professional leadership positions, he has taught Maryland judges and magistrates the basics of child-in-need of assistance cases every year from 1998 to the present.

Magistrate Casey and Judge Cannon have been married for 34 years and have two children.

Magistrate Casey will speak on the purpose of the juvenile court, particularly delinquency cases. He will discuss the need to treat adolescent delinquency cases differently from adult criminal cases and the policies behind the decisions of judges and magistrates who consider delinquency cases. In delinquency cases the court must balance the protection of the public safety with society’s obligation to assure that adolescents become healthy adults. Judge Cannon will discuss the problem of looking to the criminal justice system for a solution to society’s ills. The criminal justice system is there to address failures of society. She will explain the plea bargaining system and the problem that police credibility has on the operation of the entire system.