Judy Clare Clarke (born 1952) is an American criminal defense lawyer who has represented several high profile defendants. He has negotiated a defense treaty that avoids his client's death sentence, just as for Eric Rudolph, Ted Kaczynski, and Jared Lee Loughner. In the case of Susan Smith, Clarke argued to the jury who ultimately chose not to impose the death penalty.
Raised in Asheville, North Carolina, Clarke is a graduate of T.C. Roberson High School, Furman University, and University of South Carolina School of Law. Clarke served as executive director of the Federal Defender of San Diego, Inc. (FDSDI) and Defenders of the Eastern District of Washington and Idaho. From 1996 to 1997, he served as President of the National Crime Defense Lawyers' Association. Clarke received the John Frank Award from Circuit Court of Appeals 9.
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Family and education
Judy Clare Clarke is the daughter of Harry Wilson Clarke and Patsy Clarke. Patsy Clarke is the daughter of a Massachusetts film theater manager who moved the family to Asheville when Patsy was a teenager. Her parents met at college together. Clarke grew up in Asheville, North Carolina. Growing up, he has three other brothers: Candy, Mark, and one other. His father is a civilian leader in Asheville and president of the Western Carolina Industries employers' association. Her mother spent most of her time raising her four children and occasionally acting in a regional theater production. Clarke's parents are conservative Republican. Her father campaigned for Senator Jesse Helms. In 1987, his father, Harry, was killed in a private plane crash near Asheville. Jesse Helms called Patsy Clarke to express his condolences and sent the family a flag that had been flown in his honor on the US Capitol.
From about six or seven, Clarke wants to be a lawyer or a judge. As a child, his mother taught him the Constitution and he remains interested. In addition, Clarke regularly denied his opinion about the latest happenings on the big table his father had installed in the family kitchen. Her parents encouraged independent thinking. For college, Clarke studied psychology at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated from Furman in 1974. Right after college, Clarke went to South Carolina University Law School and received his Doctorate degree in 1977.
In the early 1990s, her brother Mark was diagnosed HIV-positive and revealed to Judy and her mother that she was gay. Mark, at the time, was studying law at the California Western School of Law in San Diego, California. In 1994, Clarke's brother, Mark, died of AIDS. After seeing Jesse Helms assaulting a gay man on the Senate floor and trying to block funding for further AIDS research, Patsy Clarke wrote him a letter asking him to be kind to those who are dying or have died of AIDS. Jesse Helms replied in a letter: "I know Mark's death is a terrible blow for you, as far as homosexuality, the Bible judges me, I do not, and Mark, I hope he does not play Russian roulette with his sexual activity I sympathize with him and for you. someone is running away from the reality. "After this, Judy persuades her mother to come out against their old family friend, Senator Jesse Helms. Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaughn - a conservative connected to North Carolina politics and one who also lost a son to AIDS - created MAJIC, Mothers Against Jesse in Congress. They opposed him vigorously in the 1996 election, but eventually he won re-election.
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Legal career
Right after law school, he moved to San Diego, California to work as a trial lawyer for San Diego Federal Defenders, Inc. (FDSDI). He was quickly promoted to Senior Court Prosecutor and Principal Prosecutor. From 1983 to 1991, Clarke served as executive director of FDSDI. During his tenure as executive director, federal punishment guidelines were made, a product of the 1984 Penal Code of Reform. He argued the United States v. Rojas-Contreras (1985) and United States v. Munoz-Flores (1990) before the United States Supreme Court. In 1992, Clarke left FDSDI to lead the newly formed federal advocate office in the Eastern District of Washington and Idaho, which he did until June 2002. From 2002-2009, he served as the first full-time Capital Investment Advisor for the Federal Public. and Community Defender Program. She is currently in private practice in San Diego, California with her husband, Thomas H. Speedy Rice.
In addition, Clarke previously served as President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is the president of the first public defender and second female president. Clarke is a member of Federal Death Penalty Counsel, which helps judges recruit eligible federal public defenders. He is a colleague of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Clarke worked as Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University from 2006-07 and Professor of Practice from 2008-09 and in the spring of 2010.
Susan Smith
In 1995, he took time off to serve as a legal advisor to Susan Smith, a South Carolina woman who faces the death penalty at the South Carolina Circuit Court for killing her two sons. His counselors are David Bruck, a friend of his at law school.
In his opening statement, Clarke believes Smith is very troubled and suffers from severe depression. He told the jury: "This is not a case of crime, it is a case of despair and sadness." Clarke, however, admits that Smith knew what he was doing wrong, and it tortured him. Clarke points out the tragedy in Susan Smith's life which includes being tortured by her stepfather, her father's suicide and suicide attempt - twice when Smith was a teenager. The defense theory of the case was that Smith drove to the lakeside to kill himself and his two sons, but his body got out of the car. The prosecutor, on the other hand, believes Smith kills his children to start a new life with a former lover. It took only two and a half hours of jury to punish him for killing his two sons.
Tommy Pope, the chief prosecutor in Smith's case, vigorously backed Smith's death sentence. But the jury finally chose not to impose the death penalty. The Pope believes that Clarke can humanize Susan Smith and help them see that Smith himself is a victim. Smith was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
After the trial, the judge was impressed with Clarke's work and increased his pay to US $ 83,000. After paying taxes, he donated the money to a criminal defense fund.
Theodore Kaczynski
In 1996, Federal Defender Quin Denvir filed a paper asking US District Judge Garland Burrell to appoint Clarke as his advisor to Ted Kaczynski who was accused of seven explosions related to Unabomber and facing the death penalty. Clarke and the defense made an unsuccessful challenge to find Kaczynski's cabin and the statements he made after his arrest. In addition, the defense began to prepare for the defense of insanity, which Kaczynski does not support. Kaczynski's brother, David Kaczynski, said of Clarke: "He has the ability to develop a relationship with Ted, and that is not one of his gifts." He does not connect easily or well with others. In addition, he said, "I think [that] he understands my brother as a man who has significant problems and challenges and mental problems, who do something horrible but still at the human level." About the time of the jury election, Kaczynski moved to dismiss his lawyer, but the movement was rejected. The day before the trial began, Kaczynski pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, serving his sentence at ADX Florence. Later Kaczynski was quoted describing Judy Clarke as "a bitch on a wheel and a sicko."
Buford Furrow
In 2000, he was appointed to represent Buford O. Furrow, a member of the Aryan Nations, accused of the shooting of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center, and the fatal shooting of a Philippine-American postal worker in 1999. The prosecutor sentenced him to death while the defense documented and mapped a long-term history psychiatric treatment for bipolar disorder. In 2001, Furrow pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five terms of life.
Zacarias Moussaoui
In 2002, he was appointed a legal advisor to 9/11 suspect Zacarias Moussaoui in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. On June 13, 2002, Judge Leonie Brinkema granted Moussaoui's motion to represent him and let his case move forward. Clarke then serves as a standby adviser to Moussaoui. Although Judge Brinkema revoked Moussaoui's self-statement, it appears that Clarke acted as a defense consultant. Moussaoui finally pleaded guilty, but escaped the death penalty by the jury. He served a life sentence without parole at the ADX Federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, USA.
Eric Rudolph
In 2004, after Prosecutor Robert Jaffe resigned from the case, he was appointed chief adviser to Eric Rudolph who was accused of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing and another bombing a year later. Clarke and the defense tried to suppress the evidence, but the movement was rejected. After the prosecution announced that they would seek the death penalty, a federal judge also dismissed the defense claim that prosecutors waited too long to announce that they would seek death penalty. In April 2005, Rudolph pleaded guilty to avoiding the death penalty. He is currently living in prison without the possibility of parole at ADX Florence.
Jared Lee Loughner
On January 10, 2011, the US District Court in Phoenix, Arizona commissioned Clarke as a defense attorney for Jared Lee Loughner, the shooter of Tucson, Arizona January 8, 2011. The Phoenix Public Defender's Office has requested that Clarke be retained to allow Loughner to receive competent advice without a possible public conflict of interest arising from the proceedings against him for his alleged role in the shooting. On August 7, 2012, Clarke brokered an agreement to save Loughner's life in exchange for a plea guilty of 19 charges, including wounding Gabrielle Giffords, a congressman. Loughner lives in prison without parole at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, MO.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
On April 29, 2013, Clarke was appointed to a defense team representing the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Clarke acknowledged his client's mistake and told the jury that he was responsible for "unreasonable, terrible, misguided acts" referring to the Tsarnaev bombing of the Boston marathon. The federal jury convicted Tsarnaev of 30 counts against him and found him responsible for the deaths of three people killed in the 2013 attacks and the murder of an MIT police officer three days later. On May 15, 2015, a federal jury sentenced him to death.
Style and display representation
In his speech at Loyola Law School, Clarke basically said that his client - no matter how terrible the crime alleged against them - is a real person, not a monster. He tried to understand what caused them to do it. He opposes the death penalty.
References
External links
- Judy Clarke at Washington and Lee University School of Law
- History at San Diego Federal Defender Inc.
- Judy Clarke: Jared Loughner's 'Amazing' Attorney
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