David Isaac Bruck was born on 1949 and is a Canadian-American criminal defense attorney, clinical professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, and director of the Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse.
14 Facts About David Bruck
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David Bruck attended Harvard College and University of South Carolina School of Law.
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David Bruck has co-represented high profile defendants, including Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Dylann Roof, and Susan Smith.
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David Bruck attended Harvard College and was a contributor to The Harvard Crimson.
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David Bruck went to law school at the University of South Carolina so that he could advise reluctant inductees at the Army's Fort Jackson.
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David Bruck eventually returned to South Carolina to represent clients facing the death penalty because he did not believe these defendants were receiving adequate representation.
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David Bruck was disturbed that the death row population consisted mostly of poor black men.
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Many of us felt that way in school, but David Bruck was one of the few who devoted his career to it.
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David Bruck has worked as a public defender in South Carolina and in private practice.
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David Bruck handled many death penalty cases in South Carolina.
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David Bruck represented Zayd Hassan Abd al-Latif Masud al-Safarini who received a life sentence for his role in the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Pakistan in which 22 people were killed.
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In 2014, David Bruck was appointed to the defense team working with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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David Bruck was stand-by counsel for Dylann Roof, the killer of nine people in the Charleston church shooting, who represented himself in federal court.
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In 2020, David Bruck was chosen to represent one of the plotters of the September 11 attacks, Ramzi bin al-Shibh.