Mr. Robert B. Dunham

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  Robert Dunham, Esq.Attorney
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  Robert Dunham, Esq.Defender Association of PhiladelphiaFederal Court Division437 Chestnut Street, Suite 510Philadelphia, PA 19106-2414

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  Robert Brett Dunham, Capital Habeas Unit, Philadelphia Defender Association

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  Robert Dunham, Esq.

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  Robert B. Dunham

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  The Public Interest Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association will present the 2003 Andrew Hamilton Award to Robert B. Dunham, Director of Training for the Capital Habeas Corpus Unit of the Federal Defender Office, on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at the Section's Annual Cocktail Reception.
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  This past year has been particularly eventful for Dunham and the cases on which he has worked.
  
  Last November, he argued Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania in the United States Supreme Court.In December 2002, Dunham along with his colleagues in the Unit, overturned the death penalty for a mentally retarded defendant in Pennsylvania's first contested grant of relief under Atkins v. Virginia, which prohibits the execution of persons with mental retardation.In January 2003, Dunham won a new trial for a capital defendant and, in May, he argued Hardcastle v. Horn in the Third Circuit, a case in which the federal district court granted a new trial.
  
  "In the last year, Rob has continued to be in the forefront of the Unit's success and his expertise has been called upon to train lawyers across the Commonwealth and the country on issues at the cutting edge of state, federal and international law," said Peter G. Rossi, a member of the center city law firm Cozen O'Connor, who nominated Dunham for the award.
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  For many years, Dunham has recruited Philadelphia law firms to provide pro bono assistance in Pennsylvania capital cases and has provided ongoing training and legal consultation to the pro bono lawyers handling these cases.Dunham has been linked with many high profile, landmark cases.He is widely sought out as a speaker and trainer on issues of capital defense.
  
  From July 1994 until joining the Habeas Unit, Dunham was executive director of the Center for Legal Education, Advocacy & Defense Assistance, Pennsylvania's former death penalty resource center.Prior to that, Dunham was a litigator with Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, where he handled his first capital case.

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  Robert Dunham, a lawyer in the Philadelphia federal defender's office that now represents Kevin, said straight punishment didn't make much sense for someone like Kevin, but that's all that was on the table.
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  "That's the way it works," Dunham said.

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  Two witnesses: Lead defense attorney Robert Brett Dunham called two witnesses Monday -- Spotz's 81-year-old grandmother, Jean Redden, and Blocher.
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  Dunham said he expects the appeal hearing to last at least five days and possibly longer.

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  The Public Interest Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association will present the 2003 Andrew Hamilton Award to Robert B. Dunham, Director of Training for the Capital Habeas Corpus Unit of the Federal Defender Office, on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at the Section's Annual Cocktail Reception.
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  This past year has been particularly eventful for Dunham and the cases on which he has worked.
  
  Last November, he argued Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania in the United States Supreme Court.In December 2002, Dunham along with his colleagues in the Unit, overturned the death penalty for a mentally retarded defendant in Pennsylvania's first contested grant of relief under Atkins v. Virginia, which prohibits the execution of persons with mental retardation.In January 2003, Dunham won a new trial for a capital defendant and, in May, he argued Hardcastle v. Horn in the Third Circuit, a case in which the federal district court granted a new trial.
  
  "In the last year, Rob has continued to be in the forefront of the Unit's success and his expertise has been called upon to train lawyers across the Commonwealth and the country on issues at the cutting edge of state, federal and international law," said Peter G. Rossi, a member of the center city law firm Cozen O'Connor, who nominated Dunham for the award.
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  For many years, Dunham has recruited Philadelphia law firms to provide pro bono assistance in Pennsylvania capital cases and has provided ongoing training and legal consultation to the pro bono lawyers handling these cases.Dunham has been linked with many high profile, landmark cases.He is widely sought out as a speaker and trainer on issues of capital defense.
  
  From July 1994 until joining the Habeas Unit, Dunham was executive director of the Center for Legal Education, Advocacy & Defense Assistance, Pennsylvania's former death penalty resource center.Prior to that, Dunham was a litigator with Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, where he handled his first capital case.

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  Robert Dunham, director of training for the Capital Habeas Unit of the Pennsylvania Capital Representation Project, will discuss reforms proposed by the American Bar Association's Pennsylvania Death Penalty Assessment Team at the Thursday, Nov. 1 meeting of the Civil Rights Committee.
  
  Dunham has represented death row inmates in all of Pennsylvania's state and federal appeal and post-conviction courts, and has helped to obtain more than 225 stays of execution and to reverse more than 60 unconstitutional capital convictions or death sentences.He helped to develop the legal challenge to Philadelphia's racially discriminatory application of the death penalty and was on the legal teams that won the first reversals ever by Pennsylvania's state and federal courts of capital convictions that were the product of racial discrimination in jury selection.

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  Robert Dunham is Director of Training for the Capital Habeas Corpus Unit of the Defender Association of Philadelphia - Federal Court Division.He was Executive Director of Pennsylvania's former death penalty resource center from its inception in July 1994 until lack of funding forced it to close in June 1999.
  
  Rob has represented death row inmates at all levels of Pennsylvania's state and federal courts, helping to obtain more than 220 stays of execution and to reverse more than 30 unconstitutional capital convictions or death sentences.Ten of these clients already have been resentenced to life and the state has dropped capital charges against an eleventh.Rob recently won the first reversals ever by Pennsylvania's state and federal courts of capital convictions that were the product of racial discrimination in jury selection.He and his office have overturned 18 death sentences that resulted from sentencing-stage counsel's failure to investigate and present mitigating evidence.They also are litigating numerous challenges to the Philadelphia District Attorney's racial profiling in death penalty jury selection and the systemic racial bias in Philadelphia's implementation of the death penalty.
  
  Rob has trained death-penalty lawyers for numerous organizations and institutions including the Administrative Office of the United States Courts; the Federal Judicial Center; the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund; the National Institute for Trial Advocacy; the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL); the Public Defender Association of Pennsylvania (PDA of PA), and the New Jersey Public Defender System, and serves on the program steering committee of the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law's capital post-conviction training program.He has received PACDL's Liberty Award; the PDA of PA's Gideon Award; the Bill of Rights Award from the Federal Bar Association for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and Georgetown University's Jeffrey Crandall Award for commitment to public interest law.He is also a member of PACDL's Board of Directors and serves as co-chair of its death penalty committee.

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