A Legacy Of Legal Victories In Fraud And White Collar Crime Defense

Brent

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Newton

Education

Columbia Southern University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia
- J.D. - 1992
- Honors: Kent Scholar
- Honors: Stone Scholar
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- B.A.
- Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
- Honors: With Highest Honors

Elected Member, American Law Institute, 2010
Martindale-Hubbell “AV Preeminent” Rating
Student Bar Association’s “Adjunct Professor of the Year,” 2013-2014, Washington College of Law, American University
Student Bar Association’s “Adjunct Professor of the Year,” 2008-2009, University of Houston Law Center
Named “Outstanding Assistant Federal Defender, 2006” (one of four nationally) by the National Association of Federal Defenders
Harry S. Truman Scholar, 1987

Trial Advocacy in Action (NITA/LEXIS 2015)
Practical Criminal Procedure: A Constitutional Manual (4th ed., NITA/LEXIS 2021)
Criminal Litigation and Legal Issues in Criminal Procedure (5th ed., NITA/Wolters Kluwer 2023)
Incentivizing Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel Claims Raised on Direct Appeal: Why Appellate Courts Should Remand “Colorable” Claims for Evidentiary Hearings, 22 J. App. Prac. & Process 107 (2022)
A Partial Fix of a Broken Guideline: A Proposed Amendment to Section 2G2.2 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines, 70 Case Western Reserve L. Rev. 53 (2020)
Recurring Ethical Issues Related to Federal Sentencing, 43 J. of the Legal Prof. 25 (2018)
The History of the Original United States Sentencing Commission, 1985-87, 45 Hofstra L. Rev. 1167 (2017) (co-authored with Dawinder Sidhu)
The Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment Scorecard, 13 Stanford Journal of Civ. Rts. & Civ. Liberties 1 (2017)
The Real-World Fourth Amendment, 43 Hastings Const. L. Quarterly 759 (2016)
The Story of Federal Probation, 53 Amer. Crim. L. Rev. 311 (2016)
Three chapters – Mental Health Issues in Federal Criminal Practice, Pretrial Statements, and Constitutional Issues that Arise During Trial – in Defending a Federal Criminal Case (2010)
Four entries – Retroactivity, The Eighth Amendment, Substantive Due Process, and Professional Baseball Cases – in The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Macmillian Reference USA 2008)

“Hot Topics in the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence” – Federal Public Defender’s Office/CLE for CJA Panel Attorneys; Phoenix, AZ; March 2020
Annual or Biannual Presentations on Legal Ethics, Immigration Offenses, Firearms Offenses, Child Pornography Offenses, and Federal Supervised Release, at U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Annual National Seminars on the Sentencing Guidelines; 2007-2019
“Sentencing in Securities Fraud Cases” – ABA’s Fifth Annual Institute on Securities Fraud; New Orleans, LA; October 2010
Annual Presentations on Federal Habeas Corpus Practice, Mental Health Issues in Criminal Law, Federal Pretrial Motions Practice, and Federal Sentencing Issues Advanced Criminal Law Course (State Bar of Texas); 1999, 2002, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011
Regular Presentations on Firearms Offenses, Immigration Offenses, Pretrial Motions Practice, and Title III Wiretaps – “Winning Strategies” Seminars (sponsored by the Defender Services Division of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts); 2002-2009