of the Memorials Committee of the Mecklenburg County Bar (2015–2021), and member of the Ayscue Professionalism Committee of that bar association (2019–2021). Noteworthy Judicial Cases In April 2010, six alleged members of the gang MS-13 were tried before Judge Conrad in two separate trials. In the first case, six defendants were tried on forty criminal charges, including three defendants who were alleged to be responsible for the deaths of four people. Sixty witnesses testified in the case, of whom three entered witness protection. The jury found the six defendants guilty on thirty six counts. In the second trial MS-13 gang member Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umaña was charged with murder after he allegedly killed two brothers who “disrespected” him in a restaurant. Umaña attempted to bring a knife into the courtroom, and he allegedly attempted to kill witnesses and informants while he was awaiting trial. A jury convicted Umaña of murder and voted unanimously to impose the death penalty. In September 2010, Judge Conrad sat by designation on a panel of the Fourth Circuit that heard the appeal of Derek Tice, one of the “Norfolk Four” who had been convicted for a 1997 rape and murder. Following his conviction another man, Omar Ballard, confessed to committing the crime and had his DNA matched to the crime scene. The panel affirmed that Tice was entitled to a writ of habeas corpus and that his conviction should be overturned. In July 2011 Judge Conrad presided over a trial involving a lawsuit against TASER International Inc. for the wrongful death of a minor. When 17-year-old Darryl Green was killed after being struck in the chest and shocked by a TASER product in a North Carolina supermarket in March 2008, the jury in the case found a $10 million judgment against the TASER company. Judge Conrad reduced the amount to $5.49 million in light of the “relatively thin” evidence and prior settlements in the case. However, the Fourth Circuit determined that the amount needed to be reduced even further because the Plaintiff had not sufficiently proven specific damages. In September 2011 Judge Conrad issued an order prohibiting the US Airways pilots union from cancelling or delaying flights in their effort to force US Airways into contract negotiations. Judge Conrad ordered the US Airline Pilots Association to refrain from "instigating, authorizing or encouraging" the interference with US Airways operations and instructed pilots to resume their normal