Phone: (434) 924-3911

E-mail: sfs3h@virginia.edu

Subject Area(s): Criminal law, criminal procedure, federal criminal law

All Courses: Appellate Practice (seminar), Criminal Adjudication, Criminal Law, Federal Criminal Law, Seminar in Ethical Values

Current Course(s): Appellate Litigation: Principles And Practice, Federal Criminal Law

In the media:

• "Cockfight Case Defendant Cuts A Deal" (Harrisonburg Daily News Record , 02/21/2008)
• "Dartmouth May Face Lawsuit Over Trustees" (New York Sun, 09/13/2007)
• "Dartmouth Board Expanding, Diluting Alumni Voice" (Bloomberg.com, 09/11/2007)
• "Dartmouth Approves Controversial Board Changes" (Inside Higher Ed, 09/10/2007)
• "Dartmouth Considers Reinventing Board" (Associated Press, 09/05/2007)
• "Mr. Rodgers Goes to Dartmouth: A Cautionary Tale about a Businessman Who Ventured Back into the Ivory Tower " (Opinion Journal: Wall Street Journal, 09/01/2007)
• "Alumni Vie for Influence Over College Mission" (Concord Monitor, 08/27/2007)
• "Academic Round-Up" (SCOTUSblog, 06/15/2007)
• "Conservatives Gain Ground at Dartmouth" (Associated Press, 05/25/2007)
• "Politicized Alumni Elect Conservative to Trustees/Petition Candidate Beats Council Choice" (The Associated Press, 05/20/2007)
• "Critical Voice Wins Dartmouth Race" (Dartmouth News, 05/18/2007)
• "College Trustees Clash on Key Values/Dartmouth Alumni Funding Both Sides" (Boston Globe, 04/03/2007)
• "David vs. Goliath U." (The New York Post, 04/01/2007)
• "Clerks Avoid Getting Their DIGs In/They Just Say No to Cert Petitions, as the Court's Docket Shrinks" (ABA Journal, 03/13/2007)
• "Last-Minute Reprieve for Death-Row Inmate" (Toronto Star, 11/30/2005)
• "Warner Weighing Inmate's Plea For Clemency/Political Impact Shadows Decision on Capital Case" (The Washington Post, 11/27/2005)
• "Decision Rocked Judiciary, Renewed Debate on Drug War" (The Charlottesville Daily Progress, 03/20/2005)
• "Experts Call Jury Sentence 'Compromise' in U. Virginia Student's Trial" (The Cavalier Daily, 11/12/2004)
• "Law Can Justify Self-Defense Killings" (Daily News Leader, 08/26/2004)
• "Lawyers' 'Dirty Little Secret'" (Toronto Sun, 08/17/2004)
• "High Court Ruling Complicantes Gilmore, Church Murder Trials" (Roanoke Times & World News, 03/11/2004)
• "'Wiggins' Gets Lower Courts' Notice; Defense Gets Bounce from Ruling on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel" (National Law Journal, 02/09/2004)
• "Ineffective Assistance Claims Getting Serious Audience In Capital Cases" (New Jersey Law Journal, 02/02/2004)
• "Courts Starting To Apply 'Wiggins' In Death Penalty Appeal" (The Recorder, 02/02/2004)
• "Wiggins' Wide-Reaching Effects" (Legal Intelligencer, 02/02/2004)
• "On the Offensive" (Roanoke Times & World News, 12/07/2003)
• "Board Chairman Returns to Mixed Review of Incident" (Newport News Daily Press, 11/21/2003)