Admitted
1974, California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1975, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court; 1983,
Law School
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, J.D., 1974
Law School Graduation Year
1974
College
Northwestern University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1971
Memberships
State Bar of California; American Bar Association; California Attorneys for Criminal Justice; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Biographical
Managing Editor, Ecology Law Quarterly, 1973-1974. Author: Scenic Hudson Revisited, 2 Ecology Law Quarterly 837, 1972; Foreword, Ripe For Decision: Internal Workings & Current Concerns of the California Supreme Court, 62 California Law Review 309, 1974; People v. Ruthford: Reversible Error Standards for Prosecutorial Suppression of Evidence, 4 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 715, 1977; Essential Research Tools for Criminal Defense Attorneys, 1 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 5, 1981. Adjunct Professor of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, 1976-1980. Law Clerk for Chief Justice Donald R. Wright, California Supreme Court, 1974-1975. Staff Member, California Supreme Court Special Masters on Reapportionment, 1973. Federal Public Defender, Northern District of California, 1975-1980. Listed in Naifeh and Smith's Best Lawyers in America (California Criminal Defense).