David Crow Email & Phone Number

Staff attorney at Legal Aid Society Criminal Appeals Bureau since 1984. Director of pro bono program for criminal appeals since 1994. Provide substantive oversight and staff appeals with the law firms that serve on Legal Aid's Board of Directors. Practice in New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division; New York Court of Appeals; habeas corpus in US District Court for Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; US Court of Appeals for 2d Circuit. Areas of practice include: Rockefeller Drug Law resentencing project, 2004 - 2014; wrongful conviction project, since 1997; Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act resentencing project, since 2019; parole for long-sentence prisoners; clemency; retroactive youthful offender project; Second Look (review of extreme sentences imposed in the 1980's through 2010's).Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Brooklyn Law School, 1993-2003.Honors: Legal Aid Society Orison Marden Award (2021). New York State Defenders Association Servant of Justice award (2006).Publicized cases include: People v. George Bell, Gary Johnson & Rohan Bolt (2021 triple exoneration) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/nyregion/queens-wrongful-convictions.htmlPeople v. Kareem Bellamy (2015 murder conviction overturned and case dismissed)https://ecbawm.com/news/ecbawm-obtains-8-million-settlement-for-wrongful-conviction-under-queens-da-richard-brown/People v. Vanessa Gathers (2016 exoneration) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/nyregion/womans-manslaughter-conviction-in-1991-death-to-be-vacated.htmlPeople v. Stevin Ruffin (2024 exoneration) https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2024/01/19/man-exonerated-for-manslaughter-conviction-in-1996-after-serving-14-years/People v. George Martinez (2021 clemency for client serving lengthy sentence for non-violent burglary) https://legalaidnyc.org/news/las-secures-clemency-for-60-year-old-client-george-martinez/People v. Niki Rossakis (1998 sentence reduction for domestic violence survivor)https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ny-supreme-court/1476552.htmlPeople v. Anthony Lee (2001 NY Court of Appeals decision expanding right to call expert on eyewitness identification; amicus)

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  Associate Appellate Counsel

  Legal Aid Society

  Sep 1984 - Present