Richard S. Jaffe (born February 27, 1950) is an American lawyer, legal analyst, leadership coach, and author of Search for Justice: Defend the Cursed . Jaffe is regarded as one of the foremost experts and lecturers on criminal law in America and is often called to comment on the issue of capital punishment and other criminal law fields by national television, radio and print media.
Jaffe is famous for leading the release of three inmates in Alabama, and to represent Centennial Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. Jaffe has successfully defended hundreds of people accused of murder, including over sixty cases in which the defendant faces the death penalty. He debated the 21 trials until it was over. Jaffe has only one client sentenced to death.
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Early life and education
Jaffe was born in Mountain Brook, Alabama. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama where he was elected by his colleagues to the SGA House of Representatives and then the Senate SGA; serving as one of three student members of the University Honorary Court; and was inducted into Honorary's Jasons Senior Men's and Omicron Delta Kappa.
Jaffe obtained a law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1976 where he served on the National Moot Court team.
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Legal Practice
Jaffe is currently a Senior Partner from Birmingham, Alabama law firm Jaffe, Hanle, Whisonant & amp; Knight, P.C. The company concentrates on criminal defense and personal injury, with Jaffe specializing in white-collar crime defense and criminal litigation in federal and state courts. He was licensed for legal practice in New York, Georgia, the District of Columbia and Alabama. Jaffe has been certified by the National Advocacy Agency (NBTA) as a Criminal Justice Specialist since 1984.
Jaffe's friends praised his engineering technique. Jaffe allows the jury to reach their own conclusions about the behavior of a witness rather than showing certain behaviors, thus making it far more likely that the jury will remember the issues during consideration.
Notable Cases
Eric Robert Rudolph
Also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, Rudolph was charged with the Centennial Olympic Park bombing during the 1996 Summer Olympics and the bombing of an abortion clinic in Sandy Springs, Georgia (January 1997); lesbian bar in Atlanta (February 1997); and Birmingham abortion clinic, Alabama (January 1998). Jaffe represented Rudolph after his arrest in 2003, but withdrew from the case after 14 months.
James Taylor (Bo) Cochran
Cochran was convicted of killing Stephen Ganey in Jefferson County, Alabama. In his fourth trial, Jaffe managed to argue that the captured Cochran hiding in the bushes hundreds of meters from where the fatal shooting was fired, could not shoot the store manager with a broken gun, and could not move the body and hide it under a trailer. Cochran was acquitted of murder and released from prison after serving a 19-year prison term.
Gary Drinkard
Police arrested Drinkard in 1993 for Dalton Pace's murder. Two years later he was convicted and sentenced to death. Drinkard's beliefs are largely based on the testimony of his stepbrother, Beverly Robinson, and husband of her husband, Rex Fresh. In 2001 the Supreme Court of Alabama reversed the guilty verdict and the death penalty and ordered a new court because the prosecutor had incorrectly introduced evidence of his involvement in an unrelated property crime. Jaffe represented Drinkard in his second trial, which resulted in his release and release in 2001.
Randal Padgett
In 1990, Padgett was found guilty of killing his exiled wife by stabbing him forty-six times and then raping his corpse. The jury recommended life in prison without parole, but then County Marshall County Judge William Jetton put aside the jury and executed Padgett. He spent three years in a dead prison until the Alabama Criminal Appeal Court gave Padgett a new trial. Jaffe represents Padgett in his second trial. Jaffe managed to say that someone launched a rape and planted his DNA inside him. After negotiating for three days, the jury considers Padgett innocent.
Regina Gratton
Gratton was accused of killing his girlfriend Warren King in March 1994. The king is a government witness in a racketeering and extortion court for former Jefferson County District Judge Jack Montgomery. The corpse of the King was found two weeks before he had to report to the prison for his role in helping extortion of the Judge against two drug dealers. At the time of his murder, King sought to involve additional players in the Montgomery case in exchange for reduced penalty. Jaffe represents Gratton in two trials, both ending with a hanging jury that results in a mis-test. Gratton eventually enters Alford (the best interest) for assassinations on probation after he agrees to serve eighteen months in jail.
Montez Spradley
In 2004, Montez Spradley was convicted of murdering Marlene Jason, a 58-year-old dining room cashier at Mountain Brook Middle School. Setting aside 10-2 jury voices, Judge Alabama Gloria Bahakel handed down the death sentence to Spradley. In 2011, the Alabama Criminal Appeals Court reversed Spradley's verdict and execution, and ordered a new trial on allegations of interference related witnesses. Jaffe joins Spradley's defense team and becomes his main lawyer after the decision of the Criminal Court of Appeal. Spradley submitted Alford's (best interest) application in 2013 and was released from prison in 2015. Olss Madden
Ollis Madden, 16, was charged with murder in Gadsden, Alabama. His case reached the United States Supreme Court. After that, Jaffe was able to show that Madden's fifth and sixth right amendments were breached due to improper interrogation techniques carried out by police detectives. In the end, his murder case was dismissed.
Demetrius Watson
Demetrius Watson, a former marine, was indicted in 2013 for the shooting of Lisa Langston's death. In a decision finally held by the Supreme Court of Alabama, the case was dismissed after Jaffe successfully declared that Watson was immune from demands under your basic law enforcement. This is the first successful use of this defense in Alabama.
Shannon Mitchell
Together with Larry Whitehead, Matthew Hyde and James Stephen Brookshire, Shannon Mitchell, a lawyer in Marshall County, Alabama was accused of conspiring to kill a police officer Albertville in 1995. Two of the four defendants received the death penalty. Jaffe represented Mitchell who was found not guilty.
Cheryl Braswell Gutherie
In 2008, Cheryl Braswell Gutherie, a Huntsville, Alabama lawyer and former candidate for the House of Representatives of the United States, was accused of securities fraud by cheating his client, Mariko Redcross. The case was dismissed at the preliminary hearing.
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Initial career
Jaffe started his career as a prosecutor. In 1976, Alabama State Attorney General Bill Baxley hired him as Assistant Attorney General in the criminal appeals division. In 1977-1978 he served as Deputy District Attorney for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama where he tried serious crime cases of all kinds before moving to Birmingham and opened a private practice that concentrated on criminal defense.
Jaffe is a former faculty member at Miles Law School. Jaffe teaches law and criminal evidence.
From 2000 to 2008, Jaffe served as legal advisor for Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Bernard Kincaid.
Jaffe is also a certified professional trainer. He received certification from CTI and soon after it started A Coach for Champions, Inc., where he helped company executives, lawyers and other professionals realize their values, talents, ambitions, and aspirations.
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Alabama Death Penalty Team
Jaffe is a member of the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Assessment Team in Alabama. An eight-person appraisal team spent nearly two years collecting and analyzing various laws, rules, procedures, standards and guidelines relating to the death penalty administration in Alabama. In 2006, the Alabama Appraisal Team released a report that found a major weakness in state administration over the death penalty, and recommended a moratorium on all executions until the legislature was able to reform the death penalty system.
Association, Awards and Recognition
The American College of Trial Lawyers inaugurates Jaffe as a colleague in 2013. The American College of Trial Lawyers is an exceptional specialist lawyer of diverse backgrounds from the United States and Canada. The College thoroughly investigates each nominee for acceptance and only selects those who have demonstrated exceptionally high court advocacy standards, ethical behavior, integrity, professionalism and collegiality.
Jaffe is also a member of the National Association of Distinguished Counsel. NADC is the only invitation organization that seeks to recognize lawyers who have demonstrated the highest ideals of the legal profession, which raise bar standards and which provide a benchmark for other lawyers to replicate. Less than 1 percent of lawyers practicing in the United States are members.
Jaffe currently serves his fourth term as a member of the National Bar Association of Criminal Lawyers' council.
Every year since 2008, Super Lawyers has enrolled Jaffe as one of the best lawyers in Alabama. In 2014, Super Lawyers enrolled it among the top 10 Super Lawyers in Alabama. She has been registered with the Best Lawyers of America since 2007. The Best Lawyer of America is named Jaffe "Attorney of the Year" in white non-collar criminal protection in Birmingham for 2010 and 2015, and "Lawyers of the Year" in white-collar criminal protection for Birmingham for 2013.
In 2002, Jaffe was awarded the Roderick Beddow Award, the most prestigious Alabama Criminal Association award for service in criminal defense. The Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence Criminal Defense is only granted when appropriate.
Jaffe was also awarded the prestigious Clarence Darrow Award by the Alabama State Bar Association in 1994 for the contributions he has made in defending the poor accused of criminal offenses.
Publications
Jaffe is the author of Search for Justice: Defend The Damned , a memoir published by New Horizon Press in 2012 that tells of his legal career. This book provides details into several of Jaffe's highest profile murder cases as well as his representatives from Olympic and Birmingham bombers Eric Rudolph.
Jaffe has also published many articles in "The Champion," the official magazine of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Some of Jaffe's articles have explored the release of Scottsboro children, preparing prosecutor witnesses, cross-examination principles, and interrogation tactics.
Adaptations
Two Jaffe clients, Bo Cochran and Randal Padgett, were profiled in the off-Broadway Theater production by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. The drama was later adapted into a film made for cable. During the development of the drama, the playwrights consulted Jaffe on details surrounding both cases, interviewing him and his clients on several occasions.
References
External links
- rjaffelaw.com
- questforjusticethebook.com
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