Background
Hart, Brook was born on August 24, 1941 in New York City. Son of Walter and Julie Hart.
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BROOK HART
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Johns Hopkins University (Bachelor of Arts, 1963). Columbia Law School (Bachelor of Laws, 1966).
Career
Worked at Brook Hart Attorney at Law, A Law Corporation (Honolulu, Hawaii) specializing in Criminal Law. Admitted to the bar, 1966, New New York 1967, United States. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
1968, Hawaii.
1972, United States. Supreme Court. 1973, California. Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America, 1987.
Honolulu Magazine"s Hawaii"s A+ Attorneys, February, 1993 and February 1997. Guest Commentator, Court-television, O.J. Simpson and other cases, 1995.
Company-Author: With James Blanchfield, Esq., "Hawaii"s New Public Defender Legislation: A Study in Legislative Overkill," 8 Hawaii Bar Journal 53, 1971.
"Report and Guidelines for the Defense of Eligible Persons," as a Commissioner of the National Study Commission on Defense Services, NLADA-LEAA, 1975-1976. With Lila B. LeDuc, "Profiles in Privacy: Airport Travelers, Drug Enforcement Agents and Detector Dogs," 3 Criminal Law Review 35, Clark Boardman & Company, 1981. Author: "Preliminary Hearings," Public Defender Sourcebook (Singer, Education), Chapter 5, Partito Liberale Italiano (Italian Liberal Party)-American Bar Association, 1976.
Featured in: "Champion Profile," 16 The Champion 51, NACDL, July 1992.
Faculty, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1987. Faculty: Hawaii Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 1988.
Hawaii Public Defender Advocacy Institute, 1993. Law Clerk to Honorary Martin Pence, Chief Judge, United States.
District Court, District of Hawaii, 1966-1967.
Chief Public Defender, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, 1970-1972. Recipient: The Reginald Heber Smith Award as the Outstanding Public Defender in the Nation, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, 1971. Coordinator, Committee on Implementation of the Federal Criminal Justice Acting Plan for the District of Hawaii, 1980.
Member: California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, 1978.
Commission to Select Federal Public Defender for District of Hawaii, 1981-1983, 1994. Bencher, American Inns of Court IV, Hawaii, 1982.
Member, Supreme Court, Judicial Council of Hawaii Committee on Penal Code Revision and Reform, 1983-1985. Member: Hawaii State Judicial Conference, 1986-1988.
Member, Hawaii Supreme Court Permanent Committee on Rules of Penal Procedure and Circuit Court Criminal Rules, 1984.
Member, Hawaii Supreme Court Permanent Committee on Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions, 1993-1996. Member: Hawaii State Bar Association. The State Bar of California.
American Judicature Society.
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Hawaii Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Fellow, American Board of Criminal Lawyers.
Achievements
Membership
Member: California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, 1978. Commission to Select Federal Public Defender for District of Hawaii, 1981-1983, 1994. Bencher, American Inns of Court IV, Hawaii, 1982.
Member, Supreme Court, Judicial Council of Hawaii Committee on Penal Code Revision and Reform, 1983-1985.
Member: Hawaii State Judicial Conference, 1986-1988. Member, Hawaii Supreme Court Permanent Committee on Rules of Penal Procedure and Circuit Court Criminal Rules, 1984.
Member, Hawaii Supreme Court Permanent Committee on Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions, 1993-1996. Member: Hawaii State Bar Association.
The State Bar of California.
American Judicature Society. National Legal Aid and Defender Association. National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Hawaii Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Fellow, American Board of Criminal Lawyers. Fellow, American Board of Criminal Lawyers.
Connections
Married Barbara Ingersoll, November, 1980. Children: Morgan M., Lauren L., Ashley I., Ariel J. Bachelor Johns Hopkins University, 1963.
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1967
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Recipient: The Reginald Heber Smith Award as the Outstanding Public Defender in the Nation, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, 1971. Coordinator, Committee on Implementation of the Federal Criminal Justice Acting Plan for the District of Hawaii, 1980.Recipient: The Reginald Heber Smith Award as the Outstanding Public Defender in the Nation, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, 1971. Coordinator, Committee on Implementation of the Federal Criminal Justice Acting Plan for the District of Hawaii, 1980.