Background
Lawrence Crocker, John was born on February 13, 1944 in Aurora, Illinois, United States.
Lawrence Crocker, John was born on February 13, 1944 in Aurora, Illinois, United States.
Yale University (Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, 1966). Duke University (Juris Doctor, 1980). Spoken languages: German.
Worked at Slotnick, Shapiro & Crocker, Limited liability partnership (New York, New York) specializing in Civil Litigation, Criminal Law. Admitted to the bar, 1982, New New York 1983, Washington and United States.
District Court, Western District of Washington.
1994, United States. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New New York Order of the Coif. Author: "The Upper Limit of Just Punishment," 41 Emory Lord Justice, 1992.
"Justice in Criminal Liability: Decriminalizing Harmless Attempts," 53 Ohio State Law Journal 1060, 1992. "Can the Exclusionary Rule Be Saved?" 84 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 310, 1993.
"Hate Crime Statutes: Just, Constitutional, Wise?" 1992-1993 Annual Survey of American Law 485.
"A Retributive Theory of Criminal Causation," 5 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 65, 1994. "The Suit Against Organisation of Petroleum Export Countries: Foreign Sovereign Immunity in the United States," 29 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 508, (Condensed version of "Sovereign Immunity and the Suit Against Organisation of Petroleum Export Countries), 1980. Company-Author: with David M. Tanovich, "Dancing with Stinchcombe"s Ghost: A Modest Proposal for Reciprocal Defense Disclosure," 26 Criminal Reports 4th 333, (Canada, 1994).
Author: Note, "Sovereign Immunity and the Suit Against Organisation of Petroleum Export Countries," 12 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 215, 1980.
"The Ethics of Moving to Disqualify Opposing Counsel for Conflict of Interest," 1979 Duke Law Journal, 1310. Associate Professor, New York University School of Law, 1989-1994.
Assistant District Attorney, New York County, 1986-1989.