Biographical
Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America, 1983—; Honolulu Magazine's Hawaii's A+ Attorneys, February, 1993, February, 1997, April, 1999, June, 2001. Guest Commentator, Court-TV, O.J. Simpson and other cases, 1995, 1999, 2002. Co-Author: With James Blanchfield, Esq., Hawaii's New Public Defender Legislation: A Study in Legislative Overkill, 8 Hawaii Bar Journal 53 (1971); Report and Guidelines for the Defense of Eligible Persons, as a Commissioner of the National Study Commission on Defense Services, NLADA-LEAA, 1975-1976; with Lila B. LeDuc, Esq., Profiles in Privacy: Airport Travelers, Drug Enforcement Agents and Detector Dogs, 3 Criminal Law Review 35, Clark Boardman & Co. (1981); with Earle A. Partington, Esq. and Samuel P. King, Jr., Esq., Plain Nonsense, 2 Hawaii Bar Journal 32 (Dec., 1998). Author: Preliminary Hearings, Public Defender Sourcebook (Singer, Ed.), Chapter 5, PLI-ABA, 1976; The Hawaii Supreme Court's Criminal Law Decisions 1997-1998: Fair Use of the Doctrine of Plain Error? II Hawaii Bar Journal 49 (No. 13, 1998). Featured in: Champion Profile, 16 The Champion 51, NACDL, July 1992. Speaker: Advanced Criminal Law Seminars, Aspen, Colorado, 1981, 1985, 1992; NACDL Aspen CLE Seminar, January 2000. Faculty: ABA-LEI National Continuing Legal Education Conference, Vail, Colorado, 2001; Faculty, Lorman Legal Education Seminars, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2002, 2003; National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1987; Hawaii Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 1988; Hawaii Public Defender Advocacy Institute, 1993—. Law Clerk to Hon. Martin Pence, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii, 1966-1967. Chief Public Defender, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, 1970-1972. Recipient: The Reginald Heber Smith Award as the Outstanding Public Defender in the Nation, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, 1971. Coordinator, Committee on Implementation of the Federal Criminal Justice Act Plan for the District of Hawaii, 1980. Member: California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, 1978—; Commission to S