Members of the Pennsylvania Death Penalty Assessment Team

Chair, Professor Anne Bowen Poulin

Professor Poulin is a Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law. Professor Poulin teaches Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and Trial Practice. Professor Poulin also has taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law, served as Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago, Illinois, and taught at the Wayne State University Law School. Professor Poulin's scholarly work includes: Party Admissions in Criminal Cases: Should the Government Have to Eat its Words?, 87 Minn. L. Rev. 401 (2002) and Prosecutorial Inconsistency, Estoppel and Due Process: Making the Prosecution Get Its Story Straight, 89 Cal. L. Rev. 1423 (2001). Professor Poulin received her B.A. from Radcliffe College at Harvard University, J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law, and LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Hon. Frank T. Hazel

Judge Hazel was appointed to the Court of Common Pleas in Delaware County in 1981 by Gov. Dick Thornburgh and was recently elected to his third ten-year term commencing in 2002. Prior to his elevation to the Bench, Judge Hazel served as District Attorney of Delaware County for six years. During his tenure as District Attorney, Judge Hazel served as President of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys' Association and Chairman of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys' Association's Task Force on Wire-tapping and Electronic Surveillance. He has been a member of several committees of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and was a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing. Judge Hazel is a graduate of St. Joseph's University and Villanova School of Law.

Mary MacNeil Killinger

Ms. Killinger is the Deputy District Attorney for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. She has been the Chief of the Appellate Division since 1985, and previously was the former Chief of Sex Crimes and former Chief of Trials for Montgomery County. Ms. Killinger clerked for the Honorable Horace A. Davenport on the Common Court of Pleas of Montgomery County. She is a member of Order of the Coif and the Villanova J. Willard O'Brien American Inn of Court. She received her B.A. from Notre Dame of Maryland, her M.Litt. from the University of Pittsburgh and her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law.

Gregory P. Miller

Mr. Miller is a founding shareholder at Miller, Alfano & Raspanti, P.C. His areas of concentration include complex commercial litigation in securities, insurance, reinsurance, employment, and mass tort areas, as well as white-collar criminal defense. Mr. Miller's past positions include Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office in Philadelphia from 1983 to 1985, Assistant United States Attorney at the same office from 1979 to 1983, and Lieutenant in the United States Navy, JAGC, from 1976 to 1979. Recently, Pennsylvania Law Weekly identified Mr. Miller as one of the 50 most influential minority attorneys in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Mr. Miller received his B.A. from Mount Union College and his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University Law School.

David Rudovsky

Mr. Rudovsky is a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School teaching Criminal Law, Evidence, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure. Professor Rudovsky is a Founding Partner of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg, LLP, a public interest firm that is nationally recognized for civil rights litigation. He also served in several capacities at the Defender Association of Philadelphia. Professor Rudovsky is the author of The Law of Arrest, Search and Seizure in Pennsylvania (2003) and co-author of Criminal Law in Pennsylvania (2001). He received his B.A. from Queens College and LL.B. from New York University School of Law.