Stephen J. CribariDistinguished Visiting ProfessorSt. Lawrence University, B.A. Professor Stephen J. Cribari brings a diversity of interests to the Law School. A former Federal Public Defender who has twice argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, he teaches constitutional law, evidence, physical evidence/expert testimony, and criminal law. He is the Reporter for the Criminal Pattern Jury Instruction Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, is on the faculty of ATF's National Firearms Examiner Academy, and is a member of NIJ's Technical Working Group on Digital Evidence in the courtroom. Professor Cribari designed, and has conducted, the moot court component of the FBI Computer Analysis Response Team's examiner qualification training program. In 2003, he was recognized by the FBI for outstanding public service. In 2004-05, Professor Cribari was a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he has continued to teach most summers. He has taught at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver (where he designed the federal appellate clinical program, the students winning 5 of their first 8 cases). Professor Cribari has also taught at the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University, and in the Department of Forensic Sciences at George Washington University. Professor Cribari received his J.D. from Catholic University (1980), and is the first American layman to have received a Pontifical degree in Canon Law (J.C.L., 1977). He has taught Canon Law at Catholic University and is a former tribunal judge for the Military Archdiocese. He received his B.A. from St. Lawrence University. Prof. Cribari is the author of Is Death Different? Dying Declarations and the Confrontation Clause after Crawford, 35 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 1542 (2009), and, with Prof. Don Judges of the University of Arkansas School of Law, is co-author of Speaking of Silence, 94 MINN. L. REV. (forthcoming 2010). Professor Cribari is also a published poet and playwright. His most recent work includes It Seems a Lifetime Away (DAMAZINE, summer 2009; http://www.damazine.com/archives/2009_summer/it_seems_a_lifetime_aw... n_cribari.html ); Massage Therapy (forthcoming 2009, CHEST); Il Veduto dal Croce (forthcoming 2009, ORACLE); The Death of Hugh (CENTAUR, September 2009). He is co-librettist of Ein Friedensoratorium, a peace oratorio composed by Carola Assali (Heidelberg, Germany, 2000). His short play, Fingerprinting a Corpse, is published in The Playwrights' Center Monologues for Men (edited by Kristen Gandrow; Heinemann, 2005). With Don Judges he is the co-author of two screenplays. Their play Radio Traffic was produced in Minneapolis in May, 2008.
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