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Clarence Seward Darrow (/ ˈ d ær oʊ /; April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer who became famous in the 19th century for high profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, including the Leopold and Loeb murder trial, the Scopes "monkey" trial, and the Ossian Sweet defense.
Following the American Bar Association's "scathing report on the state of indigent defense in Virginia", [6] the VIDC was established by statute in 2004 and replaced the Public Defender Commission. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The VIDC replaced court-appointed lawyers in death penalty cases with full-time public defenders. [ 9 ]
A criminal defense lawyer is a lawyer (mostly barristers) specializing in the defense of individuals and companies charged with criminal activity.Some criminal defense lawyers are privately retained, while others are employed by the various jurisdictions with criminal courts for appointment to represent indigent persons; the latter are generally called public defenders.
Timothy J. Heaphy (born 1964) is a white-collar criminal defense attorney, law professor and a former United States attorney for the Western District of Virginia. He served as the lead investigator for the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack .
In the United States, a public defender is a lawyer appointed by the courts and provided by the state or federal governments to represent and advise those charged with a crime or crimes who cannot afford to hire a private attorney. [1] [2] [3] Public defenders are full-time attorneys employed by the state or federal governments. [1]
Francis Lee Bailey Jr. (June 10, 1933 – June 3, 2021), better known to the general public as F. Lee Bailey, was an American criminal defense attorney. Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Bailey first came to nationwide attention for his involvement in the second murder trial of Sam Sheppard, a surgeon accused of murdering his wife.
Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel [1] [2] (born February 25, 1980) is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor serving as the ninth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) since 2025.
The civil suit precipitated a state audit of hundreds of criminal cases in Virginia and also led to changes in Virginia law concerning the handling of post-conviction claims of innocence. In 2015, Peter Neufeld and his team won a civil suit for client Donald Gates, an innocent man framed by Washington, D.C., homicide detectives. [ 17 ]