Brent E Newton - Houston, TX

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • Columbia Law School, New York, New York, 1992
    J.D.
    Honors: Kent Scholar
    Honors: Stone Scholar
    Law Review: Columbia Law Review, Senior Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
    B.A.
    Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
    Honors: With Highest Honors

Current Employment Position(s)

• Of Counsel

Classes and Seminars

• “Hot Topics in the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence” – Federal Public Defender’s Office/CLE for CJA Panel Attorneys; Phoenix, AZ; March 2020
  
• Annual or Biannual Presentations on Legal Ethics, Immigration Offenses, Firearms Offenses, Child Pornography Offenses, and Federal Supervised Release, at U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Annual National Seminars on the Sentencing Guidelines; 2007-2019
  
• “Sentencing in Securities Fraud Cases” – ABA’s Fifth Annual Institute on Securities Fraud; New Orleans, LA; October 2010
  
• Annual Presentations on Federal Habeas Corpus Practice, Mental Health Issues in Criminal Law, Federal Pretrial Motions Practice, and Federal Sentencing Issues Advanced Criminal Law Course (State Bar of Texas); 1999, 2002, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011
  
• Regular Presentations on Firearms Offenses, Immigration Offenses, Pretrial Motions Practice, and Title III Wiretaps – “Winning Strategies” Seminars (sponsored by the Defender Services Division of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts); 2002-2009

Published Works

Articles

• Trial Advocacy in Action (NITA/LEXIS 2015)
  
• Practical Criminal Procedure: A Constitutional Manual (4th ed., NITA/LEXIS 2021)
  
• Criminal Litigation and Legal Issues in Criminal Procedure (5th ed., NITA/Wolters Kluwer 2023)
  
• Incentivizing Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel Claims Raised on Direct Appeal: Why Appellate Courts Should Remand “Colorable” Claims for Evidentiary Hearings, 22 J. App. Prac. & Process 107 (2022)
  
• A Partial Fix of a Broken Guideline: A Proposed Amendment to Section 2G2.2 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines, 70 Case Western Reserve L. Rev. 53 (2020)
  
• Recurring Ethical Issues Related to Federal Sentencing, 43 J. of the Legal Prof. 25 (2018)
• The History of the Original United States Sentencing Commission, 1985-87, 45 Hofstra L. Rev. 1167 (2017) (co-authored with Dawinder Sidhu)
• The Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment Scorecard, 13 Stanford Journal of Civ. Rts. & Civ. Liberties 1 (2017)
• The Real-World Fourth Amendment, 43 Hastings Const. L. Quarterly 759 (2016)
• The Story of Federal Probation, 53 Amer. Crim. L. Rev. 311 (2016)
• Three chapters – Mental Health Issues in Federal Criminal Practice, Pretrial Statements, and Constitutional Issues that Arise During Trial – in Defending a Federal Criminal Case (2010)
• Four entries – Retroactivity, The Eighth Amendment, Substantive Due Process, and Professional Baseball Cases – in The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Macmillian Reference USA 2008)

Bar Admissions

• Texas
• Florida
• Washington
• Maryland
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court District of Maryland
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
• Supreme Court of the United States of America