Bret Dillingham offers “triage” and guidance to the mitigation and trial team.  Bret Dillingham’s clinical social work background combined with his extensive experience with capital trials, and knowledge of what matters to jurors in a capital case, allow him to collaborate with the mitigation and trial team in developing the most effective themes, strategies and witnesses for the penalty phase.  Bret Dillingham has also been qualified and testified as a mitigation expert in post-conviction relief proceedings.