Veterans

when Kennedy v. Louisiana was decided in 2008, not only was I working in the Army's Defense Appellate Division, but I was also just starting up as lead counsel on a death penalty appeal.

So, as you can guess, I was pretty interested.

When the CAAF case came down, I was working as the deputy of the Defense Counsel Assistance Program (we trained all the defense attorneys) so again, right place, right time to understand that case because we had to help notify/train/explain it to counsel.