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Professor Joan Howarth, Chair of the Nevada Assessment Team, is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada School of Law. She teaches Torts, Constitutional Law, and oversees the Capital Defense Clinic. Professor Howarth also has served as Scholar in Residence at the University of California Berkeley's Boalt Center for Social Justice. Previously, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of California Davis and the University of California Hastings. She served on the faculty of Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California. Previously, she served as Associate Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California and as an attorney in the Office of California State Public Defender. She received her J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School.
Justice Robert E. Rose is a Judge on the Nevada Supreme Court. Since being elected to the Court in 1988, he has twice served as Chief Justice (93-94 and 99-00). Justice Rose began his legal career as a Nevada Supreme Court Law Clerk in 1964. He then went on to practice law in Reno, NV before he was elected Washoe County District Attorney in 1970. In 1974, he was elected Nevada Lieutenant Governor. He then returned to practice law full-time in Las Vegas, NV until his appointment as Judge of the Eight District Court in 1986 and then his election to the Supreme Court. In 2000, Justice Rose won his third consecutive six-year term. Justice Rose has built a reputation in the legal community and on the court as a reformer. During his years as Chief Justice, he promoted the creation of the Court's blue ribbon Judicial Assessment Commission to conduct a broad study of the judicial system and recommend improvements. Justice Rose also pushed the Supreme Court to adopt rules that require all courts to keep reliable uniform statistics to more efficiently manage their pending caseloads. Justice Rose received his A.B. from New York University School of Law.
JoNell Thomas has established her own firm, The Law Offices of JoNell Thomas, where she specializes in appeals to the Nevada Supreme Court and First Amendment cases. Ms. Thomas also is an adjunct professor at the Boyd School of Law where she teaches a course on the death penalty and serves as general counsel to the Nevada Press Association. Previously, Ms. Thomas served as president of the Board of Directors of the Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice, and the organization named her Defender of the Year in 2003. She also is a former board member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada. In 2001, the National Law Journal named Ms. Thomas Pro Bono Attorney of the Year. Ms. Thomas received her J.D. from the University of Utah in 1992.
Steven T. Walther works in the firm of Walther, Key, Maupin, Oats, Cox & LeGoy, in Reno, Nevada. He is Secretary of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the Executive Board of the ABA Central and East European Law Initiative. Mr. Walther is a former President of the State Bar of Nevada, and was previously a member of the Board of Governors of the ABA. He is also a former Chair of the ABA Section on International Activities and the ABA Standing Committee on World Order under Law. In addition, Mr. Walther served as the ABA representative to the United Nations. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and his J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is currently President of the Alumni Association.
**Additional Team Members will be announced shortly.
Resources on the Administration of the Death Penalty in Nevada
- May 2005 Executions, State of Nevada: Office of the Attorney General, at www.prodeathpenalty.com/Pending/05/may05.htm (2005).
- April 2005 Executions, State of Nevada: Office of the Attorney General, at www.prodeathpenalty.com.Pending/05/apr05.htm (2005).
- Nicole E. Grodner, Disparate Impact Legislation and Abrogation of the States Sovereign Immunity after Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs and Tennessee v. Lane, 83 Tex. L. Rev. 1173 (2005).
- Associated Press, Nevada Court Limits Prosecutors' Tactics In Capital Cases, Las Vegas Sun, at www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/mar/25/032510409.html (3/25/2005).
- Sun Capital Bureau, Supreme Court Denies Reconsidering Death Case, Las Vegas Sun, at www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/mar/25/518505958.html (3/25/2005).
- Timothy Sandefur, A Private Little Bush v. Gore, or, How Nevada Violated the Republican Guarantee and Got Away With it, 9 Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. 105, (2004).
- Guy Louis Rocha, An Outline of Capital Punishment in Nevada, Department of Cultural Affairs Nevada Library and Archives, at www.dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/nsla/archives/prison/punish.htm (8/23/2004).
- Nevada Has a High Rate of 'Volunteer' Executions, Coalition
for Truth and Justice, at membres.lycos.fr/cftj2/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=494&
(3/10/2004).
- Elizabeth F. Colombo, The New Southpaws: The Turning of the Nevada Supreme Court's Criminal Decisions, 66 Alb. L. Rev. 907 (2003).
- Archives and Records Management Nevada State Prison Inmate Case Files, Nevada State Prison Gas Chamber, Department of Cultural Affairs Nevada Library and Archives, at dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/nsla/archives/prison/chamber.htm (7/11/2003).
- Todd B. Tatelman, Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs: The Eleventh Amendment in a States Rights Era: Sword or Shield?, 52 Cath. U. L. Rev. 683 (2003).
- Rick Halperin, Nevada Re-examines its Death Sentence Policies, at www.prisonactivist.org/pipermail/prisonact-list/2003-May/007492.html (5/26/2003).
- Rick Halperin, Senate Panel to Modify Nevada Death Penalty Reforms, at www.prisonactivist.org/pipermail/prisonact-list/2003-May/007381.html (5/15/2003).
- Associated Press, Judge Orders Teen Tried as an Adult in Mesqu Stabbing, Reno Gazette Journal, at www/rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/04/08/38933 (4/8/2003).
- Ed Vogel, Assembly Passes Execution Changes, Las Vegas Review Journal, at www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Apr-01-Tue-2003/news/21010211.html (4/1/2003).
- Ben Kiechkhefer, Nevada Assembly Passes Three Death Penalty Measures, Las Vegas Sun, at www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2003/mar/31/033110140.html (3/31/2003).
- National Association of Social Workers, Death Penalty, Nevada Women's Agenda Death Penalty Information Sheet 2003, at www/nevadawomenslobby.org/issues/deathpenalty.htm (2003).
- Dan Silverstein, Criminal Law Opinions of the Nevada Supreme Court, 11-FEB. Nev. Law. 34 (2003)
- Dan Silverstein, Criminal Law Opinions of the Nevada Supreme Court, 11-JAN Nev. Law. 44 (2003).
- Brian Irvine, Waiting for Daubert: The Nevada Supreme Court and the Admissibility of Expert Testimony, 2 Nev. L.J. 158 (2002).
- Nevada Law Journal Staff, Annual Survey of Nevada Law 2001, 2 Nev. L.J. 696 (2002).
- Nevada Law Journal Staff, Annual Survey of Nevada Law 2000, 2 Nev. L.J. 696 (2002).
- Nevius v. Nevada, Letter to Nevada Board of Pardons, EU Policy on the Death Penalty, at www.eurunion.org/legislat/DeathPenalty/NeviusBdPards.htm (3/26/2001).
- USA (Nevada): Death penalty/Legal Concern: Thomas Nevius, Amnesty International, available at web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR510472001?open&of=ENG-USA (3/13/2001).
- Lisa A. Blythe, They Dropped the Ball: The Failure of the Nevada Supreme Court to Consider the Impact of the ICCPR's Nam pm Capital Punishment for Juvenile Offenders in Domingues v. State, 18 Dick. J. Int'l L. 391 (2000).
- Erica Templeton, Killing Kids: The Impact of Domingues v. Nevada on the Juvenile Death Penalty as a Violation of International Law, 41 B.C. L. Rev. 1175 (2000).
- Connie De La Vega & Jennifer Fiore, The Supreme Court of the United States Has Been Called Upon to Determine the Legality of the Juvenile Death Penalty in Michael Domingues v. State of Nevada, 21 Whittier L. Rev. 215 (1999).
- Resolution Calling for a Moratorium On Executions in the State of Nevada, Life, Peace and Justice Commission of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno, Nevada, at www.catholicreno.org/LPJ/moratorium.html (11/21/1999).
- Susan Wilson, Proper Person Litigation in the Nevada Supreme Court, 6-AUG Nev. Law. 24 (1998).
- Paul Taggart, Criminal Appeals at the Nevada Supreme Court, 4-AUG Nev. Law. 24 (1996).
- M. Catherine Healy, Riggins v. Nevada: Are "Synthetically Sane" Criminal Defendants Competent to Stand Trial?, 20 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 385 (1994).
- Vickie L. Feeman, Reassessing Forced Medication of Criminal Defendants in Light of Riggins v. Nevada, 35 B.C. L. Rev. 681 (1994).
- Luis Gutierrez, The Judicial Side Effects of Involuntary Medication as it Relates to a Criminal Defendants Right to a Fair Trial. Riggins v. Nevada, 19 T. Marshall L. Rev. 355 (1994).
- Christi Yandell, The Case Against Forced Administration of Antipsychotic Drugs to Induce Competency to Stand Trial. Riggins v. Nevada, 112 S. Ct. 1810, 21 Am. J. Crim. L. 311 (1994).
- Henry A. Dlugacz, Riggins v. Nevada: Towards a Unified Standard for a Prisoner's Right to Refuse Medication?, 17 Law & Psychol. Rev. 41 (1993).
- Brian J. Doherty, Antipsychotic Medication and the Criminal Defendant: Problems Persist Despite a Dose of Due Process, 58 Mo. L. Rev. 383 (1993).
- Bruce J. Winick, Psychotropic Medication in the Criminal Trial Process: The Constitutional and Therapeutic Implications of Riggins v. Nevada, 10 N.Y.L. Sch. J. Hum. Rts. 637 (1993).
- Barbara Dillion, Constitutional Law-Forcible Administration of Anytipsychotic Drugs Without Proving Necessity and Medical Appropriateness Violates Fair Trial Right-Riggins v. Nevada, 112 S. Ct. 1810, 27 Suffolk U.L. Rev. 969 (1993).
- Bruce J. Winick, New Directions in the Right to Refuse Mental Health Treatment: The Implications of Riggins v. Nevada, 2 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 205 (1993).
- Elizabeth A. Schmidtlein, Riggins v. Nevada: The Accused's Right to "Just Say No" to Antipsychotic Drugs?, 10 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y 541 (1993).
- Richard L. Ferrell III, Riggins v. Nevada Fails to Resolve the Conflict over Forcibly Medicating the Incompetent Criminal Defendant, 26 Akron L. Rev. 297 (1992).
- Robert G. Dunn, Constitutional Law-The Right to Die or the Right to Suicide: A Difficult Distinction-McKay v. Bergstedt, 106 Nev. 808, 801 p. 2d 617, 25 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 829 (1991).
- Nancy H. Cole, It Ain't Necessarily So! A Study in Guided Hand Writings, 4 J. Forensic Document Examination 34 (1991).
- Nevada's Death Penalty System is Working! State of Nevada: Office of the Attorney General, at www.prodeathpenalty.com/Liebman/Nevada.htm.
- Dudley Sharp, Innocence Issues-The Death Penalty, State of Nevada: Office of the Attorney General, at www.prodeathpenalty.com/Innocence.htm.
- Life Without Parole, State of Nevada: Office of the Attorney General, at www.prodeathpenalty.com/LWOP.htm.
- Appeals, State of Nevada: Office of the Attorney General, at www.prodeathpenalty.com/Appeals.htm.
- Recidivism, State of Nevada: Office of the Attorney General, at www.prodeathpenalty.com/repeat_murder.htm.
- Death Penalty Paper, State of Nevada: Office of the Attorney General, at www.prodeathpenalty.com.DP.html.
- Brief History of Executions in Nevada, Nevada Support, at www.geocities.com/nevadahelp/history.html?200520
- The Men on Death Row, Nevada Support, at www.geocities.com/nevadahelp/inmates/html?200520.
- Nevada Death Penalty News: May 12: Nevada Bill Bans Executions of Retarded Criminals, Nevada Support, at www.geocitites.com/nevadahelp/news.html?200520.
- Clemency Policy, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, at www.cjpf.com/clemency/Nevada.html.
- Barry Latzer and James N. G. Cauthen, Response to Prof. Liebman: Capital appeals revisited, Response to the Liebman Study, at www.dpinfo.com/Liebman.htm
- Nevada: State by State Summary, at teacher.deathpenalty.info.msu.edu/c/states/stats/Nevada.htm.
- Nevada, DPIC, at www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=11&did=510.
