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| Practice Areas | Appellate Practice; Civil Rights; Drug Crimes; Environmental Law; Homicide; Personal Injury; Police Misconduct; Sex Crimes; Theft; Criminal Law; DUI/DWI; Misdemeanors; White Collar Crime | | | Education | Cleveland State University, J.D., 1973, Miami University, B.A., 1970 | | | Admitted | 1973, Ohio; 1974, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio; 1977, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th, 6th and 8th Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court | |
| Memberships | National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; National Lawyers Guild; American Civil Liberties Union; American Academy of Forensic Scientists. | | | Born | Cleveland, Ohio, April 29, 1948 | | | Biography | Recipient, John Minor Wisdom Award, American Bar Association Litigation Section, 2002. Faculty Lecturer, Trial Advocacy, Cleveland State University School of Law. CLE Speaker: "Post-Conviction Relief in Ohio," Cuyahoga County Bar Association Immigration Law Seminar, May 1998; "Criminal Law and the Media," Cuyahoga County Bar Association, November 2001-2008. Lecturer, DNA Seminar, Lahore, Pakistan, 2006. Speaker, "Section 1983 Law," Ohio Federal-State Bar Conference, Oct. 2003; Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation, Ohio State Bar Association, 2004; "Going On The Offensive—Malicious Prosecution and Wrongful Imprisonment Remedies," NORML Legal Seminar, 2006. Speaker: "Selective Enforcement - A System out of Balance", ACLU, 2008; " The Future of Forensic Sciences: a Symposium" CSU Law School, 2009; "Handling the Police Liability Claim", 2009. Cooperating Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights. | | | Reported Cases | U.S.A. v. Yee, et al, 12 F.3d 540 (6th Cir. 1993) (DNA test); Ohio v. Lessin, 67 Ohio St. 3d 487 (1993) (free speech flag burning); State ex rel. Jones v. Suster, 84 Ohio St.3d 70 (1998) (re-opening Sheppard murder case); Yates v. Cleveland, 941 F.2d 444 (6th Cir. 1991) (no immunity for police shooting); Wilkinson v. Austin, 125 S.Ct. 2384 (2005) (challenge to Supermax prison). | | | ISLN | 907102913 | |
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