6267, 6269 6274 - Ernest "Buddy" Conner speaks to a crowd gathered at the Carolina Club Wednesday evening about his long time mentor, J. Kirk Osborn, who passed away in March of 2007. Osborn, an attorney in the Duke Lacrosse case, was a board member of the Fair Trial Initiative, a Durham-based non-profit group dedicated to fair death penalty trials. Conner was presented with the first Osborn Award for his commitment in providing advocacy to North Carolinians.

Other people:

Mark Kleinschmidt, Executive Director of Fair Trial Initiative - Younger man in black suit, blue dress shirt, blue tie, black hair. 

Sarah Anthony, Deputy Director of FTI - The only woman speaking...