Hello and welcome to The
Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess.
On this, our 59th
episode, our guest is Robert Dunham.
Robert Dunham is an attorney and a nationally recognized
expert on the death penalty.
Before becoming the
Death Penalty Information Center’s Executive Director, he was one of the
leading capital appellate lawyers in Pennsylvania, arguing on behalf of the
Commonwealth’s death-row inmates in its state and federal courts and in the
United States Supreme Court.
He served as
Executive Director of the former Pennsylvania Capital Case Resource Center from
1994 to 1999; Director of Training of the Capital Habeas Unit of the
Philadelphia federal defender's office from 1999 to 2009; and as an assistant
federal defender in the Harrisburg federal defender’s capital habeas unit from
2009 until March 2015. He started his legal career as a litigation associate at
Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis in Philadelphia, where he handled his
first pro bono capital case. He previously served five years as a legislative
assistant to State Representative Robert W. O’Donnell, later the Speaker of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
He has taught in
death penalty training programs offered by national, state and local courts,
bar associations, and professional organizations for more than 20 years. He was
an adjunct professor of law at Villanova Law School for 11 years, teaching
death penalty law, and he has also taught death penalty at Temple Law School and
as a visiting scholar at Oklahoma State University. He is a life fellow of the American
Bar Foundation and has served on the Steering Committee of the American Bar
Association's Death Penalty Representation Project and on the board of
directors of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, the Pennsylvania Association
of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Philadelphia crime-victim assistance
program, Northwest Victim Services, for whom he also served as Board President.
A native of
Philadelphia, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of
Pennsylvania, where he was a University Scholar in philosophy. He received his
law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where
he served as managing editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. At Georgetown, he
received the Milton A. Kaufman Prize for outstanding contribution to the journal
and the Jeffrey Crandall Award for commitment to public interest law.
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Also please make sure to comment, follow, like, subscribe, share, rate and review everywhere the podcast is available, including iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play Music, Facebook, Twitter, Internet Archive, TuneIn and RSS.
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You can find more about me by visiting my website, www.thisburgess.com.
Until next time.
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