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CLEVELAND:
Phyllis L. Crocker, professor of
law and associate dean for academic affairs at the
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, will talk about issues of
fairness and the death penalty in
Ohio and share
information from the recently published Assessment of Ohio’s Death
Penalty
at noon on
Friday,
May 2, 2008,
at The City Club of Cleveland.
A recognized
authority on the death penalty, Crocker chaired the American Bar
Association’s Ohio Death Penalty Assessment Team that published
the report EVALUATING FAIRNESS
AND ACCURACY
IN STATE DEATH PENALTY SYSTEMS: THE OHIO DEATH PENALTY ASSESSMENT
REPORT (2007). She is the author of several articles that analyze
the constitutional and cultural underpinnings of the death
penalty.
Crocker received her undergraduate degree
from
Yale
University and her law degree from Northeastern University School
of Law. After graduation from law school, she clerked for the Hon.
Warren J. Ferguson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit. She was then an associate in a small Chicago firm
specializing in complex federal civil litigation.
From 1989 to 1994, Crocker was a staff
attorney at the Texas Resource Center in Austin, a federally
funded community defender organization representing
death-sentenced inmates in state and federal post-conviction
litigation. She served as co-counsel in Herrera v. Collins, 506
U.S. 390 (1993). She joined the Cleveland-Marshall faculty in
1994, and has taught Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Criminal
Procedure I and II, and Capital Punishment and the Law.
The annual Bar
Association Law Day Forum is in partnership with the Cleveland
Metropolitan Bar Association.
Tickets are $18 for members and $30 for non-members. Lunch is
included. They can be purchased by calling The City Club at
216.621.0082
or visiting the website at
www.cityclub.org.
EVALUATING FAIRNESS
AND ACCURACY IN STATE DEATH PENALTY
SYSTEMS: THE OHIO DEATH PENALTY ASSESSMENT REPORT (2007).
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