Meghan Shapiro, Cropped for the Web, 2012 August 16
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FullscreenMeghan Shapiro Meghan is a solo criminal defense attorney in Alexandria Virginia, and a former Deputy Capital Defender for the Northern Virginia Capital Defender Officer. The majority of her law practice is devoted to capital defense work, including challenges to Virginia's methods of execution. Prior to working for the Capital Defender, Meghan clerked for the Honorable Leonie M. Brinkema, Federal District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Alexandria. Meghan received her J.D. in 2009 from the University of Texas School of Law, where she studied at the school's Capital Punishment Center and worked for a number of career capital litigators in Texas, Alabama, Philadelphia, and Richmond. She has published a handful of pieces on capital punishment law, including in the American Journal of Criminal Law. A native Virginian, she is proud to be back and fighting on behalf of indigent men and women facing the death penalty in her home state, but dismayed by the shortcomings of Virginia's criminal justice system that so often crystalize during capital proceedings.
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