David M. Siegel is a Professor of Law at the New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Clinical Evidence, Criminal Advocacy and Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Process, and is Co-Director of the school's Center for Law and Social Responsibility. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, was a law clerk to the Hon. E. Grady Jolly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in Jackson, Mississippi, and served in the Office of the Metro Public Defender's Office in Nashville, Tennessee from 1990 - 1996, as an Assistant Public Defender and Senior Assistant Public Defender, where his practice focused on capital and non-capital homicides and juvenile transfer cases. His publications include a variety of law review articles, including Felix Frankfurter, Charles Hamilton Houston and the "N-Word": A Case Study in the Evolution of Judicial Attitudes Toward Race, 7 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERDISCIPLINARY LAW JOURNAL 317 (1998), My Reputation or Your Liberty (or Your Life): The Ethical Obligations of Trial Counsel in Post-conviction Proceedings, 23 THE JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION 85 (1998-99), and Old Law Meets New Medicine: Revisiting Involuntary Psychotropic Medication of the Criminal Defendant, 2001 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 307. He has also authored treatise chapters on developing and presenting psychological evidence in criminal cases, diminished capacity, juvenile transfers, and confidentiality and privilege in juvenile court. He is co-counsel for the defendant in Arkansas v. Sullivan, 121 S.Ct. 1876 (2001), in which the defendant challenged his pre-textual arrest. This case was remanded to the Arkansas Supreme Court, which is now considering whether the Arkansas Constitution provides greater protection against pre-textual arrests than does the federal constitution. Since 1999, he has represented a Massachusetts inmate, incarcerated since 1983, who is seeking post-conviction DNA testing.

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