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ABOUT ME

In Tennessee I was a part of a team that successfully represented prison inmates in establishing due process in prison discipline and enjoining mail censorship. In Mississippi I directed an effort that caused thousands of Mississippi State Hospital inmates to be released, enjoined electroshock, and required the state to provide humane conditions. I was part of a team that represented the NAACP in the Claiborne County boycott. Later, I was counsel to the Southern Prison Defense Committee and successfully represented Tennessee inmates shot by police in a prison riot.

After 7 years in the South, I moved to New York where I worked initially with Brooklyn Legal Services Corp B and then with the Federal Defender Services Appeals Unit. My argument on appeal in United States v. Valencia led to the first appellate recognition of a derivative entrapment defense. And my pro bono representation of James Moffett in the Mississippi Supreme Court led to vacatur of a death penalty conviction, and my being awarded a Thurgood Marshall Award by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

I entered the private practice of law in New York City, and after ten years, moved upstate, to Spencertown, Columbia County, where I now have practiced for more than 13 years.

I have taught at Cardozo Law School and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. And my articles exploring holistic lawyering techniques have been published in The Holistic Advocate and other periodicals.

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