Oral history interview with Richard H. Burr [electronic resource], 2008.

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with Richard H. Burr [electronic resource], 2008.

Born 1949, Lake Wales, Florida; education: B.A., Vanderbilt University, 1971, J.D., The University of Kentucky, 1976; career: litigator, Rochester, New York, 1976-1979; litigator, Southern Prisoners Defense Committee, 1979-1982; public defender, Office of the Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, 1982-1987; Director, Capital Punishment Project, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1987-1994; Litigation Director, Texas Resource Center, 1994-1995; partner in private practice, Burr & Welch P.C, 1996 to present; Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel, 1997 to present; United States Supreme Court: Ford v. Wainwright (1986), Selvage v. Lynaugh (1990), Hitchcock v. Dugger; trial and post-conviction lawyer, United States v. Timothy McVeigh (1996); federal death penalty resource counsel, United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui (2006); discussions: capital defense litigation, prisoner's rights, federal habeas corpus, Defense Initiated Victim Outreach, defendant competency guidelines, Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8103035

Nolan, Norton & Company, Incorporated

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

United States

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f874hn (corporateBody)

Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

United States. Supreme Court

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66b7t15 (corporateBody)

Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

Farber, Myron

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv210b (person)

Capital Punishment Project

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6227j80 (corporateBody)

Burr, Dick W. (Dick Wayne), 1920-2002

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dn4qgk (person)

Attorney, Burr & Welch P.C., Houston, Texas; Federal Death Penalty Research Counsel, Washington, D.C. From the description of Oral history interview with Richard H. Burr [electronic resource], 2008. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 732604833 ...

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6518ngw (corporateBody)

Southern Prisoners' Defense Committee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w686763v (corporateBody)

Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tb5xhh (corporateBody)