Admitted
1978, New Mexico; 1979, U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1982, U.S. Supreme Court; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1988, U.S. District Court,
Law School
University of New Mexico, J.D., magna cum laude, 1978
Law School Graduation Year
1978
College
University of Michigan, B.A., with honors, 1965
Memberships
State Bar of New Mexico (Member, Criminal Law Section; Member, Board of Directors, 1983); American Inn of Court (Barrister, 1989-1992); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (President, 1992-1993); American Board of Criminal Lawyers, 1994—; New Mexico Women's Bar Association; International Criminal Defense Attorneys Association ( Board of Directors, 2002—); International Criminal Bar (Member, Governing Council, 2003).
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Recipient, The Henrietta Pettijohn Award, 2000. Editor, University of New Mexico Law Review, 1977-1978. Co-Author: The Everytrial Criminal Defense Resource Book, West Group, 1994; Co-Author, 15th Ed. Wharton's Criminal Evidence, West Group, 1997; Whaeton's Criminal Procedure, West Group, 2002; Getting Witnesses to Federal Court, The Champion, July 1999; Co-Author: Dismissal of Jurors, The Champion, July 2000; Taking Advantage of Underutilized Rules of Evidence, The Champion, Vol. XVIII, No. 7 (1994); Winning with Experts, Trial, Vol. 29, No. 3 (March 1993); Expert Testimony in Criminal Trials: Creative Uses, Creative Attacks, The Champion, Vol. XV, No. 10 (1991); The Incompetent Child Witness, The Champion, Vol. XIII, No. 9 (1989); Highway Stops and Searches for Drugs Based On Drug Courier Profiles, Drug Law Report, Vol. II, No. 9, (May-June, 1989); Sufficiency of Indictments, Criminal Defense Techniques, Vol. 1 (1989); Co-Author, In Search of a Reasonable Suspicion on the Road to California: Stops, Searches and Seizures and the Drug Courier Profile,' The Champion, Vol. II, No. 7, 1987; Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules on Admissibility of Scientific Evidence: A Defense Counsel's Perspective, 115 F.R.D. 121, 1987; Immigration Implications for the Alien Defendant, The Champion, Vol. 10 Nos. 4, 5, 1986; Survey of New Mexico Law, 1985-85: Crim. Law, 15 N.M.L. Rev., 231, 1985; Defending the Political Client, The Champion, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1984; Survey of New Mexico, 1981-1982: Crim. Law, 13 N.M.L. Rev. 323, 1983; Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago, Harper & Row, 1970 (Co-Author). Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, Strengthening Vietnam's Supreme People's Procuracy, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1998. Program Coordinator, Russian Jury Trial Project, 1995-1997. Member of Faculty: Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers' College, 1994-1998; National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1982—; National Criminal Defense College, 1984—; Western Trial Advocacy Institute, 1985-1991. Membe