Brent E. Newton

  • Practitioner in Residence
  • Carlisle
Brent Newton

Expertise

  • Criminal Law
  • Criminal Procedure & Sentencing
  • Legal Ethics

Education

  • J.D., Columbia University School of Law
  • B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Biography

After graduating from Columbia University School of Law in 1992, where he was a senior editor of Columbia Law Review, Professor Newton clerked for Judge Carolyn King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He thereafter worked as a public defender in the state and federal court systems in Texas and Florida, including representing several dozens of death row inmates. He handled both trial and appellate cases and, in 2008, argued a case before the Supreme Court of the United States.