Courtroom Criminal Evidence

Francis A. Gilligan is the Director of Training and Education for the military commissions' prosecutors. He received his BA from Alfred University and his JD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His other degrees include a LL.M. and S.J.D. from George Washington University. He has written extensively in the field of evidence and criminal procedure. He has published articles in the Yale, Virginia, Ohio State, San Diego, Rutgers, and Boston College Law Reviews, as well as the Journal of Criminal Law in Criminology (Northwestern University) and the Search and Seizure Law Report (Clark Boardman). He has written or co-authored more than ten books, including Courtroom Criminal Evidence (LexisNexis) (with Imwinkelried, Giannelli and Lederer) (5th ed. 2011 and Supp. 2013) and Court-Martial Procedure (LexisNexis) (with Lederer) (3d ed. 2006 and Supp. 2013). Mr. Gilligan has been cited numerous times by the Supreme Court and by federal, state, and military courts. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Washington University. The classes of 2002 and 2005 at George Washington University presented him with Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Awards.

Professor Fredric I. Lederer teaches criminal procedure, evidence litigation, and military law at the College of William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law. A former Army defense counsel, prosecutor, and trial judge, he was co-drafter of the Military Rules of Evidence. As a reserve officer, he now serves as Deputy Commandant (IMA) of the Army's Judge Advocate General's School. He has lectured frequently at such programs as the Inter-Service Military Judge's Seminar. A prolific writer, Professor Lederer is co-author of a leading text on criminal evidence and author of a military criminal law text used for many years at the Army's Judge Advocate General's School.

Paul C. Giannelli is the Albert J. Weatherhead III & Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Law Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University. Professor Giannelli has written extensively in the field of evidence and criminal procedure, especially on the topic of scientific evidence. He has published articles in the Columbia, Virginia, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Hastings, Cardozo, and Case Western Reserve law reviews, as well as in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (Northwestern University), Criminal Law Bulletin, and the American Criminal Law Review (Georgetown University). He has also published in interdisciplinary journals, such as the International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, the New Biologist, Profiles in DNA, the Journal of Legal Medicine, and the Journal of Forensic Science.

He has authored nine books. Among them are: Understanding Evidence (5th ed. 2018) (Carolina Academic Press/LexisNexis); Cases and Materials on Evidence (7th ed. 2006) (with Broun & Mosteller); Scientific Evidence (6th ed. 2020) (LexisNexis/Matthew Bender) (with Imwinkelried); and Courtroom Criminal Evidence (6th ed. 2016) (Michie/LexisNexis) (with Imwinkelried, Gilligan & Lederer).

Professor Giannelli's work has been cited in hundreds of court opinions and legal articles, including the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Scheffer (1998); Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1993); Hudson v. Palmer (1984); Barefoot v. Estelle (1983). He currently serves as Reporter for the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Standards on Biological Evidence and co-chair for the ABA Ad Hoc Committee on Innocence. In 2019, he was awarded with the 2019 Wigmore Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Association of Law Schools Evidence Section.

Edward J. Imwinkelried is the Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Professor of Law Emeritus at UC Davis School of Law. A nationally recognized expert on subjects such as DNA typing, forensic psychiatry, and laser techniques for fingerprint detection, Professor Imwinkelried is the author of more than 200 books and other publications. He is frequently called upon for advice on privileges and the admissibility of evidence of other crimes, and his treatise Scientific Evidence is considered authoritative. Professor Imwinkelried served as an army lawyer in the XXIV Corps and 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam in 1971-1972. He went on to become a lecturer on evidence, criminal procedure, crimes and trial advocacy in the Criminal Law Division of the Judge Advocate General's School in Virginia, then a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and Washington University before coming to UC Davis in 1985. He has also taught as a Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University, the University of Illinois, University of Houston, and University College Dublin.

Professor Liesa L. Richter is the Floyd & Martha Norris Chair in Law and a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Professor Richter joined the OU Law faculty in 2001. She teaches Evidence, Civil Procedure I, Civil Procedure II, and a seminar entitled “Evidence Issues in Great Trials in History.” Her research focuses on federal evidentiary policy and rulemaking and her articles have appeared in journals such as the Columbia Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Iowa Law Review, and William & Mary Law Review. Professor Richter is the Academic Consultant to the Federal Evidence Advisory Committee and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Before joining the academy, she was a commercial litigation lawyer with the firm of King and Spalding, and she clerked for Judge Frank Mays Hull on the Eleventh Circuit and for Judge Jack T. Camp in the Northern District of Georgia.