connect:
 |
| connect:
|
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
STAFF
|
||||||||
Michael D. Rushford
Michael Rushford is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of the
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law organization
dedicated to improving the administration of criminal justice.
Prior to forming the Foundation, Rushford served five years as Director of the
California Chamber of Commerce Anti-Crime Department, where he raised funds and
produced two award-winning statewide public service media campaigns, authored and
helped gain passage of a number of legislative proposals dealing with crime, and
authored the Guide to Crime Reduction, which has served as a model for anti-crime
programs developed in more than 200 communities across the country.
Rushford’s earlier employment included paid consulting and coordinating work
for statewide and Northern California political campaigns, production of
Sacramento’s 1975 Easter Seal Telethon, and consultant to California’s
Lieutenant Governor in 1972. He served six years in the United States Air
Force Reserve, while attending California State University, Sacramento.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The False Promise and Lethal Consequences of Releasing Inmates (2009)
The Social Benefits of Confining Habitual Criminals, Stanford Law and Policy Review,
Volume 11, Winter 1999, page 59.
Reinhardt's Lament, Los Angeles Daily Journal, July 18, 1996, page 6, col. 3.
Taking Crime Seriously: An Agenda for the Governor's Crime Summit, The Claremont
Institute, Golden State Center for Policy Studies, No. 1994—28.
Kent S. Scheidegger
Kent Scheidegger has been the Legal Director of the CJLF since December 1986.
He has written over 150 briefs in cases in the
United States Supreme Court. He is the Past Chairman of the Criminal
Law and Procedure Practice Group of the Federalist Society and has served on the
group’s executive committee since 1996. His articles on criminal and constitutional
law have been published in law reviews, national legal publications and
Congressional reports. His legal arguments have been cited
in the Congressional Record and incorporated in several precedent-setting U.S.
Supreme Court decisions.
After receiving a degree in physics with honors from New Mexico State University in
1976, Mr. Scheidegger served for six years in the United States Air Force as a
Nuclear Research Officer.
He took his law degree with distinction from the University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law in 1982 and practiced civil law in Northern California.
He was general counsel of California Cooler, Inc. from 1984 until 1986, when he
joined CJLF.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND CASES
Rebutting the Myths About Race and the Death Penalty, 10 Ohio St. J. Crim. L.
147 (2012)
Habeas Corpus, Relitigation, and the Legislative Power, 98 Colum.L.Rev. 888
(1998)
Overdue Process: A Study of Federal Habeas Corpus in Capital Cases and a Proposal
for Reform (1995)
A Guide to Regulating Panhandling (1993)
Rethinking Habeas Corpus (1989)
Capital Punishment in 1987: The Puzzle Nears Completion, 15 West.St.L.Rev. 95
(1987)
Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288 (1989)
McCleskey v. Zant, 499 U.S. 467 (1991)
Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991)
Tuilaepa v. California, 512 U.S. 967 (1994)
Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1995)
Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362 (2000)
Connecticut Dept. of Public Safety v. Doe, 538 U.S. 1 (2003)
Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343 (2003)
Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004)
Cullen v. Pinholster, 131 S.Ct. 1388 (2011)
