出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/01/17 14:31 UTC 版)
Roger Douglas Groot (1942-2005) was the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, where he had taught since 1973. He was an expert in criminal law and procedure, and the death penalty. Groot had been appointed counsel in several Virginia capital cases, appointed as defense legal analyst in federal death penalty cases, and consulted in several hundred capital cases, including Lee Boyd Malvo (Beltway Sniper) and Peter Odighizuwa (Appalachian School of Law shooting). At the time of Groot's death, none of his clients had been sent to death row.