Professor Tyler, Director of Legal Writing, Retires
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How the future will judge Bush Special insert: The Gravel Alumus career shaped by JAG The public’s view After a revival last year, Judge William O’Neill of President Bush is The Gravel returns has a distinguished divided. The Gavel once again just in time career including a columnists debate how to distract you from stint in the JAG Corp. future historians and studying. This satirical The Gavel interviews generations will view insert looks at the lighter Judge O’Neill about his Bush’s presidency. side of law school life. experiences. BROADSIDE, PAGE 6 INSERT, PAGE 1 CAREER, PAGE 4 THE GAVEL VOLUME 55, ISSUE 6 APRIL 2007 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT CLEVELAND-MARSHALL COLLEGE OF LAW BLSA hosts Professor Tyler, annual director of legal banquet By Chuck Northcutt writing, retires STAFF WRITER ler did not enter the practice of law On March 30, 2007, the Black By J.R. White GAVEL CONTRIBUTOR through traditional means. Tyler Law Student’s Association, BLSA, Professor Barbara Tyler will worked as an emergency room held its annual scholarship and retire at the end of this academic nurse and nursing instructor for awards banquet at the City Club year, bringing an end to an amaz- 22 years in her first career. of Cleveland. ing career that has spanned profes- In law school, while most were BLSA gave three separate sions and touched many lives. overwhelmed with class prepara- awards for their 2006-2007 essay Photo by Chuck Northcutt Tyler began her journey to law tion, Tyler balanced homework competition. Recipients were Mer- school by doing something sneaky. with eight-hour weekday shifts edith Danch, Jennifer Carroll, and With her son Thom enrolled as a and twelve-hour shifts on week- Donnetta Jones. Jones won a full first-year student at Cleveland- ends. She graduated magna cum bar review exam course donated Marshall College of Law, Tyler laude. by Supreme Bar Review. Car- snuck away and took the LSAT Tyler entered a two-year judi- roll received $500, while Danch without his knowledge. cial clerkship for the Hon. Blanche received $250. Soon, Tyler was sharing class- E. Krupansky in the Ohio Court Members of the Cleveland rooms with Thom, who was par- of Appeals-Eighth District before legal community and C-M faculty ticularly grateful when his mother returning to C-M as a legal writing and administration attended the provided him with a last minute professor in 1991. banquet, including Dean Geoffrey BLSA President Anthony Scott welcomes Judge employment law outline just days In 2000, Tyler became advisor S. Mearns who gave the opening George White at The City Club of Cleveland. before the exam. to the Journal of Law and Health. remarks prior to the invocation Just as her son was grateful Her medical and legal background given by 2L Jerome Price. Judge White was the keynote speaker at the for her covert decision to enter made her a perfect fit for the pub- The Honorable Judge George annual BLSA scholarship and awards banquet law school so are C-M students lication, which focuses on points White ’55, retired from the U.S. and faculty. of intersection between the two District Court, Northern District held on March 30, 2007. Like many of our students, Ty- disciplines. See BLSA, page 2 See TYLER, page 3 Journal hosts speaker Dr. Denno Ohio Rules of Anupriya Krishna and nal of Law and Contemporary In 1994, convicted killer Ste- Austin McGuan Problems. phen Mobley attempted to have Professional GAVEL CONTRIBUTORS Dr. Denno received her mas- his death sentence overturned On April 5, 2007, C-M’s Jour- ter’s degree in criminology from because of his family’s history of Conduct nal of Law and Health presented the University of Toronto. In ad- psychological disorders. the third speaker of its 2006-2007 dition, she received her doctoral In an attempt to mitigate his annual lecture series: Dr. Deborah degree in criminology and law sentence, Mobley argued that his Denno, the distinguished Arthur A. degree from the University of family shared a genetic propensity Rule 1.8(j): Sex with clients Givney Professor of Law at Ford- Pennsylvania. for criminal misconduct and that ham University School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty at genetic testing would reveal this. Dr. Denno drew a dynamic Fordham University, Dr. Denno The trial and appellate courts A lawyer shall not solicit or engage audience comprised of a mix of served as a member of the U.S. rejected this kind of reasoning, in sexual activity with a client unless a students, area lawyers, and C-M Sentencing Commission’s Drugs- and, in 2005, Mr. Mobley was faculty. Violence Task Force from 1994 to executed. consensual sexual relationship existed In her second visit to C-M, Dr. 1997 and consulted for eight years Although the Mobley case was Denno presented Legal Implica- on the New Jersey Death Penalty the first to suggest so persistently a between them when the client-lawer tions of Research on Genetics and Project. link between genetics and criminal relationship commenced. Crime, based on her widely cited Dr. Denno pointed out that the misconduct, it was not the last. article, “Revisiting the Legal Link introduction of genetic research as Dr. Denno has been studying Between Genetics and Crime,” a defense in court is more common the relationship between biology published in Duke University now since the Steven Mobley case, School of Law’s prestigious Jour- a Georgia murder case. See DENNO, page 3 THE GAVEL Page 2 LawLaw April 2007 Dean Mearns BLSA: Judge White inspires audience Continued from page 1-- as a night law student while keeping his daytime job. The point of this story was to never give up on your talents and responds to that your talent is exactly what you do with it. of Ohio, was the keynote speaker of the night. White’s speech White then told a story of how, when he was 10 years old, his Gavel Editorial focused on community service and overcoming adversity. White father told him, “son, you never will be a rich man, but you’ll always carried the lessons that he learned from his father, a Baptist minister, have your reputation.” By Geoffrey Mearns throughout his legal career. White explained that as aspiring lawyers, if our idea of success In the last issue of The Gavel, Kathleen As a judge, he always sentenced defendants to what he would is money, then we are in the wrong profession and that we should Locke wrote an opinion piece about the expect to be sentenced if he was that defendant. White told a story use our talents to benefit others. White further explained that if you recent visit by a team of external evalu- about a defendant that he once sentenced and then later encoun- do the right thing and do things for other people, then the money ators whom I invited to assess our legal tered. This man told White that he did the right thing by sending will come back ten fold. writing program. In that piece, Ms. Locke him to jail and that he now had his life together and was no longer White closed his speech by emphasizing that you should never expressed some concerns an alcoholic. cry if you lose, but instead, you should find a way around the about the fairness of the White said that the justice system today needs improvement, obstacles. Falling back on his experience in politics, White ex- evaluation process and explaining that we are “building too many buildings,” and that plained that if you don’t win, it’s not really losing, but a learning the way in which the team “prisons are not going to change people.” White explained that experience. conducted its visit. “education is the key” and that this message needs to be relayed to After White addressed the audience, BLSA president Anthony Prior to publishing her the younger generation. W. Scott presented him with a special recognition award. Awards opinions, Ms. Locke ex- In discussing diversity, White explained that the color of a per- were also given to Dean Gary Williams, the Honorable Melody pressed some of those son’s skin does not matter, because “we are all family.” White also Stewart, Michaeline Carrig, and retired Judge Jean Capers. The concerns to me directly, stated that if one person doesn’t do well, we all don’t do well. An award was then presented to 2005-2006 BLSA President and we met to talk about Dean’s White said to never give up on your talents, and that your tal- LaKecia Foster for her ongoing commitment to BLSA. In addi- them. I appreciate the Column ent is exactly what you do with it, by relaying his own personal tion to Foster, the following graduating members of BLSA were professional and thought- account of how he got into law school several years after dropping honored: Kristen M. Boamah, Matilda Carrena, LaDavia Hatcher, ful manner in which Ms. out of college. Karrie Howard, John Sheil, and Ladi Williams. Locke assessed the issues and expressed When the law school dean asked Judge White why he should be Following the special presentations, Magistrate Gregory Clif- her concerns. admitted, he replied that after working at the Federal Reserve for ford introduced the incoming BLSA Executive Board for the 2007- Before responding to some of her eight years and fueling airplanes, he was then ready for law school. 2008 school year Jason Carter, Camille Tucker, Sufian Doleh, and specific concerns, I would like to provide After the dean admitted him on academic probation, White excelled Maurice Perdreau.