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He has successfully argued six death penalty cases in the United States Supreme Court, including Skipper
v. South Carolina, 476 U.S. 1 (1986), and Simmons v. South Carolina,
512 U.S. 154 (1994), and has handled more than 60 capital appeals in state and
lower federal courts. He has represented capital defendants at trial in more
than 15 cases, including State v. Susan Smith,
in which he and co-counsel Judy Clarke obtained a life sentence after
their client was convicted of drowning her two small children.
David has testified before U.S.
Congressional committees on death penalty legislation on seven occasions,
has presented CLE programs on capital and appellate litigation in more
than twenty-five states and U.S. territories, and in 1996 received the
John Minor Wisdom Public Service & Professionalism Award from the ABA
Section of Litigation.
He has served
as Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel since the inception of the
Project in January 1992. He was the 2002 Scholar-in-Residence at
Washington & Lee Law School in Lexington, Virginia.
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