Bob Rubin, Doug Peters, and Jason Sheffield are part of a seven-lawyer team invited by the United State’s State Department and its Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) to train criminal defense lawyers in the Republic of Georgia, a former satellite of the Soviet Union. Formerly, criminal defense lawyers were relegated to…
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A Person Deemed Dangerous By Sex Offender Board Has Right To A Hearing
The constitutional right to due process requires the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board to give people it designates as a “sexually dangerous predator” the right to a hearing, according to the Georgia Supreme Court. In the case of Gregory v. Sexual Offender Registration Review Board, Bob Rubin and Scott Key argued that the board and…
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Dunwoody Daycare Murder Conviction Reversed
Hemy Neuman was accused of shooting and killing another man in a highly-publicized case dubbed the “Dunwoody Daycare Shooting.” Doug Peters and Bob Rubin were hired by Mr. Neuman to defend him against the charge of murder. In order to understand how a person of Mr. Neuman’s intellect, exemplary job history, and familial bonds with…
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Robert Rubin Admitted to American College of Trial Lawyers
Robert G. Rubin has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America. The induction ceremony at which Mr. Rubin became a Fellow took place recently before an audience of approximately 900 persons during the recent 2015 Annual Meeting of the College in Chicago, Illinois….
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Atlanta schools racketeering case spurs national debate
On April 1, 2015 a jury returned a guilty verdict for 11 of 12 defendants charged with conspiracy to commit racketeering in the Atlanta Public School cheating case. The jury sat through a 7 month trial, the longest criminal trial in Georgia history. The judge immediately ordered that the convicted educators be handcuffed and taken…
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Rubin Interviewed on NPR About Jury Selection in Atlanta Public School Cheating Trial
Here is an excerpt from the interview: Earlier this year in Atlanta, 600 prospective jurors were summoned for the high-profile trial of 12 public school teachers and principals accused of correcting students’ answers on standardized tests. Even then, defense attorney Bob Rubin challenged the pool because he said it underrepresented African-Americans. “All of the defendants…
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Judge rejects defense claim that APS jury tainted
Fulton County Judge Jerry Baxter denied defense attorneys’ motion that challenged the racial makeup of the jury pool in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal trial. Defense Attorney Bob Rubin filed a motion last month requesting the hearing. He claimed that African-Americans are underrepresented in the pool of potential jurors who received summons in the…
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Sheffield and Rubin Release Statement in Case of Wilton, CT Educator Charged with Child Pornography
Police are investigating two additional cases involving a former Wilton preschool teacher’s aide who was recently arrested on child pornography charges, police said. Eric Von Kohorn, 33, of 400 Atlantic St., Apt. B2, Bridgeport, was charged on Aug. 20 with possession of child pornography in the first degree and promoting a minor in an obscene…
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Sheffield Defends Connecticut Educator Charged with Child Pornography
Source: “Von Kohorn’s Lawyer: Polygraph Shows No Wilton Children Harmed,” by Heather Bornden Herve, August 26, 2014, goodmorningwilton.com, Wilton, Connecticut. On Monday evening, Aug. 25, Wilton Public Schools administrators and Bd. of Education members held a meeting for parents in an effort to answer questions and address concerns following last week’s arrest of Wilton Preschool…
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Rubin Interviewed About Beverly Hall, APS Trial
Attorney, Bob Rubin, speaks with WSB TV about former Atlanta Public School Superintendent, Beverly Hall, her illness, and the effect of Hall’s possible absence from the APS Cheating Scandal Trial, set to begin August 11, 2014 in Fulton County Superior Court.
