About David Feige

David Feige is here for counterpoint. A life-long public defender and writer, David was, until recently, the Trial Chief of The Bronx Defenders, an innovative public defender office in the South Bronx. David is an award-winning trial lawyer, and a nationally known lecturer on trial skills and eyewitness identification issues. He is on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College, and has taught trial skills for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and at law schools and public defender offices around the country.

David's writings on the criminal justice system have been published in places as diverse as Slate, Legal Affairs, The New York Times Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and his commentaries on criminal justice issues can be heard on National Public Radio and its New York affiliate WNYC. In 2004 he was awarded a Soros Media Justice Fellowship. He is a frequent commentator on Court TV and is currently at work on a book, tentatively titled, "INDEFENSIBLE" which will be published by Little, Brown & Co. in 2006.

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