Background
Costanzo, Sally S. was born on March 30, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Costanzo, Sally S. was born on March 30, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
University of California at Santa Cruz (Bachelor of Arts, with highest honors, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, 1990). University of California at San Diego (Master of Arts, 1982).
University of California at Los Angeles School of Law (Juris Doctor, 1994).
Worked at Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble & Mallory LLP (Los Angeles, California) specializing in Employment Law. Admitted to the bar, 1994, California. Law Review. American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law.
Author: "Jury Decision Making in the Capital Penalty Phase: Legal Assumptions, Empirical Findings, and a Research Agenda," Law and Human Behavior (1992). "The Death Penalty: Public Opinions, Supreme Court Decisions, and Juror Perspectives," Chapter in Violence and the Law (1994). "Life or Death Decisions: An Analysis of Capital Jury Decision-Making Under the Special Issues Sentencing Framework," Law and Human Behavior (1994).
"Deciding to Take a Life: Capital Juries, Sentencing Instructions, and the Jurisprudence of Death," Journal of Social Issues (1994). (Resident, Irvine Office).