Panelists

Edwin J. Butterfoss
Dean Edwin J. Butterfoss joined the faculty at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minn., after three years of practice with the Philadelphia law firm of Pepper, Hamilton and Scheetz in the areas of product liability, employment discrimination, and commercial law. He has handled pro bono cases involving prisoners' rights and was a volunteer attorney for the Support Center for Child Advocacy. Dean Butterfoss graduated from law school magna cum laude and served on the editorial board of the Georgetown Law Journal.

He has served as a special assistant Hennepin County attorney, as a member of the Mayor's Task Force on Police-Community Relations in Saint Paul, and as a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court-Criminal Courts Study Commission. In 1989 he received the Minnesota Minority Lawyers Association's Distinguished Service Award. He is a member of the Minnesota Judges' Criminal Benchbook Committee and recently published an article in the Hamline Law Review on the Supreme Court's decision in Minnesota v. Carter.

Richard H. Deane, Jr.
Richard H. Deane, Jr. was nominated United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia by President Clinton on February 9, 1998, and confirmed by the Senate on April 3, 1998.

Mr. Deane was a United States Magistrate Judge in Atlanta from February 1994 to February 1998. Prior to his judicial appointment, he served for 14 years as a prosecutor with the Atlanta U.S. Attorney's office. He gained extensive trial and appellate experience, handling a wide variety of criminal cases, including narcotics offenses, white collar fraud, theft, environmental crime, and civil rights violations. He also served as chief of both the general crimes section and the criminal division. Since 1980, Deane has periodically combined his federal career with his academic role as adjunct professor of law at Georgia State University and Atlanta University.

Mr. Deane is chairman of the Georgia Bar Association's BASICS Committee and has served as a member of the Elections Committee. In addition to membership in other professional and academic organizations, he participated in the NAACP Mentoring Program and serves on the National Law Enforcement Involvement Committee, which works with at-risk youth on alternatives to violence. He has received several special commendations for his trial work and educational achievements. Mr. Deane received his bachelor of arts degree and his law degree from the University of Georgia. In 1979, he received an LL.M. degree from the University of Michigan School of Law.

Charlie Diemer
Charlie Diemer, Chief Deputy in the Dakota County (Minn.) Attorney's Office, was an integral part of the prosecution team in last term's U.S. Supreme Court case, Minnesota v. Carter. A 1975 graduate from William Mitchell College of Law, he has been an attorney with the Dakota County Attorney's Office for 24 years and Chief Deputy for 11 years. He is an award winning volunteer arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau and a former teacher of criminal law at Inver Hills Community College in Inver Hills, Minn. Mr. Diemer wryly notes that he must be an accomplished trial lawyer because he twice obtained criminal convictions by jury trial in cases in which the appellate courts later ruled he had no evidence.

Rita Aliese Fry
Rita Aliese Fry began her second six-year term as Cook County Public Defender in June 1998. Prior to these appointments she had acquired extensive criminal trial experience in a number of positions, including First Assistant Public Defender, Senior Attorney Supervisor, and Assistant Public Defender, where she was assigned to the Felony Trial Division and Homicide Task Force.

Ms. Fry has been an instructor, lecturer, guest speaker and panelist for numerous organizations, including Harvard Law School, Cook County Court Watchers, Emory University, the Federal Bar Association and the University of Chicago Law School. She is the author of a chapter appearing in Ethical Problems Facing the Criminal Defense Lawyer (ABA Criminal Justice Section, 1995).

In June 1994, Ms. Fry was selected by the president of the Supreme Court of Ethiopia to assist in establishing a long-term administrative structure for Ethiopia's first public defender system. She is the 1995 recipient of the Anne O'Brien Stevens Award and the 1992 recipient of the Ida Platt Award and the Sixth Amendment Award.

Alan Raphael
Professor Alan Raphael received his J.D. summa cum laude in 1979 from Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis, and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty of the Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1983, he was in private practice with the Chicago firm of Jenner & Block and a judicial clerk for Judge Thomas A. Fairchild of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Prof. Raphael currently teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, and international human rights.

Well known in the Chicago legal community for his extensive pro bono contributions to indigent criminal defendants, Prof. Raphael is the author of the textbook Criminal Procedure (Lupus) and a frequent contributor to the ABA's Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases, where he serves as Contributing Editor for Criminal Procedure.