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Welcome to NACDL's Booker / Fanfan
and Federal Sentencing Press Room
NACDL Spokespeople:
NACDL President Barry C. Scheck
Barry C. Scheck, a law professor in New York City, serves as President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. A life member of the NACDL, Scheck is a professor and director of clinical legal education at Cardozo School of Law and is nationally known for litigation work that has set standards for the forensic use of DNA testing.
A graduate of Yale University and University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law, Scheck is the co-founder and co-director of the Cardozo School of Law Innocence Project, which has been involved in the exonerations of 153 prisoners through post-conviction DNA testing.
Scheck is a commissioner on New York’s Forensic Science Review Board and serves on the board of directors of the National Institute of Justice’s Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. He is co-chair of the NACDL’s DNA Task Force and in 1996, received the NACDL’s prestigious Robert C. Heeney Award for his contributions to the association
NACDL Second Vice President Carmen Hernandez
Carmen Hernandez of Washington, D.C., serves as second vice president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Hernandez has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the past six years. She has also chaired the NACDL Continuing Legal Education Committee and co-chaired the Federal Sentencing Committee.
Hernandez received NACDL’s top member award, the Robert C. Heeney Award, in 2003 for her outstanding service to the criminal defense bar, as well as the Champion of the Constitution Award from the Federal Defenders.
NACDL Past President Gerald B. Lefcourt
Gerald B. Lefcourt is a past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a founder of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. A past President of the New York Criminal Bar Association and one of the nation's best trial lawyers, he is head of a four-lawyer firm in New York City, Gerald B. Lefcourt, P.C., specializing in the defense of criminal cases. Long considered one of the defense bar's leading spokesmen and most passionate advocates, he has defended clients as diverse as the Black Panthers, Abbie Hoffman, Harry Helmsley, Michael Milken’s co-defendant and former New York assembly Speaker Mel Miller.
Mr. Lefcourt is a lecturer, panelist and author of publications on a wide variety of legal subjects including asset forfeiture, legal ethics, wire-tapping, plea bargaining, subpoenas to lawyers, and representation of grand jury witnesses. In 1983, he was named by the NY Law Journal in "Who's Who in Criminal Defense Bar" as among the finest NY trial attorneys. The NY State Bar gave him their "Outstanding Practitioner" Award in 1985 and again in 1993. In 1993, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers gave him the Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award their highest honor. The New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers presented the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award to Mr. Lefcourt in 1997.
Gerald Lefcourt can be reached at 212-737-0400 or by e-mail at lefcourt@lefcourtlaw.com
NACDL Amicus co-Author Thomas Goldstein
Tom Goldstein is the founding partner of Goldstein & Howe, P.C. Tom also teaches Supreme Court litigation at both Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School.
Goldstein & Howe’s practice is largely devoted to Supreme Court litigation. Each term, the firm is counsel in four to ten cases on the merits. The firm also has a very active practice preparing and opposing petitions for certiorari.
Tom is preparing to argue his thirteenth case at the Court. He has also taken a central role, serving second chair, in a number of leading Supreme Court cases, including Bush v. Gore.
At age 32, Tom was recently named one of the nation’s top 45 lawyers under the age of 45 by American Lawyer magazine. Another publication named Tom one of the top 40 lawyers under the age of 40, and one of a half-dozen attorneys to watch in the 21st century, in Washington, D.C.
Before founding Goldstein & Howe, Tom was an attorney with Boies & Schiller, LLP (now Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP) and Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, and he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Patricia M. Wald of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Thomas Goldstein can be reached at (202) 237-7543 or by e-mail at tgoldstein@goldsteinhowe.com
NACDL Amicus co-Author Samuel Buffone
Samuel Buffone is a litigation partner at Ropes & Gray <www.ropesgray.com>. A co-author of NACDL's amicus brief in Booker & Fanfan, he was a founder and chairman of the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Practitioner's Advisory Group. ...more
Samuel Buffone can be reached at (202) 508-4600 or by e-mail at sbuffone@ropesgray.com
Who We Are:
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) is the preeminent organization in the United States advancing the mission of the nation's criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct. A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's more than 11,000 direct members -- and 82 state, local, and international affiliate organizations with another 28,000 members -- include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, active U.S. military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness within America's criminal justice system.
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