Glenn Kirschner

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Glenn Kirschner
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Kirschner in 2018
Personal details
Born (1961-01-02) January 2, 1961 (age 63) [1]
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Education Washington and Lee University (BA)
New England Law Boston (JD)
ProfessionAttorney
Website https://glennkirschner.com/
Military service
Service United States Army
Years of service1988–1994
Rank Captain
Unit U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps

Glenn Louis Kirschner (born January 2, 1961 [1] ) is an American attorney, a former U.S. Army prosecutor, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and an NBC News/MSNBC legal analyst.

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Early life

Glenn Louis Kirschner [2] was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 2, 1961, [3] and raised in New Jersey. [4] He graduated from New Jersey's Point Pleasant Borough High School in 1979, [4] [5] where he wrestled [6] and played football, [7] and earned a U.S. Army Student Achievement Award. [5] He then attended Washington and Lee University. [4] While at Washington and Lee, he was awarded an Army ROTC scholarship and joined the Virginia Beta chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. [4] [8] He played for the Washington and Lee Generals football team as a center on the offensive line for four seasons and was elected by his teammates as one of three team captains for his senior year. Kirschner earned Old Dominion Athletic Conference all-conference honors in his sophomore, junior and senior years and was named a first-team Kodak All-American college football player in his senior year. He was inducted into Washington and Lee University's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009. [9]

After graduating from Washington and Lee with a degree in journalism in 1984, Kirschner obtained an educational deferment of his military service to attend law school. [10] While attending New England Law Boston, he earned two American Jurisprudence awards (in trial practice and wills, estates and trusts) and was designated a Board of Trustees Scholar after his second year. [11] He received his J.D. degree cum laude in 1987 and entered active duty with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps in January 1988. [10]

Career

Upon entering active duty as a Judge Advocate General officer, Kirschner completed his first tour as an Army prosecutor at Fort Richardson in Alaska. [10] In that capacity, he investigated and prosecuted court-martial cases and served as legal advisor to the post's many commanding officers. [10] After three years in that assignment, Kirschner was transferred to the U.S. Army's Legal Services Agency in Falls Church, Virginia, where he served as a government appellate attorney handling criminal appeals of court-martial convictions. [10] These included espionage and death penalty cases. [10]

Following more than six years of active duty service, Kirschner was honorably discharged from the Army at the rank of captain. [10] In June 1994, he joined the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia office as an assistant U.S. Attorney. [12]

After a few early rotational assignments, Kirschner joined the U.S. Attorney Office (USAO) Homicide Section, led at the time by Robert Mueller. [10] Kirschner spent 24 years at the DC USAO, prosecuting lengthy RICO trials in DC Federal Court and murder/conspiracy/obstruction of justice cases in DC Superior Court. [10] In addition to prosecuting more than 50 murder trials, Kirschner was Chief of the Homicide Section from 2004 to 2010. [10] He retired from the US Attorney's office on June 1, 2018. [10]

Notable cases in which Kirschner has worked include:

Film portrayal

In the 2019 film Georgetown, directed by Christoph Waltz, [17] Kirschner is portrayed by Paulino Nunes in his role as the prosecutor in the Albrecht Muth case. [18] Described by the website ComingSoon.net, Georgetown "is inspired by the true story of Albrecht Muth, who was convicted in 2011 for murdering his much older socialite wife in Washington, D.C. Based on one of the city's most sensational scandals of recent times, the film will tell the story of an unconventional love affair, an outsider striving for acceptance and the desperate struggle for significance on every level." [19]

Media commentary

For developments with the Special Counsel Bob Mueller investigation, Kirschner provided legal commentary on national news media programs such as MSNBC' s Morning Joe , MSNBC Live [20] and Hardball with Chris Matthews , CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper and The Stephanie Miller Show . [21]

In mid-September 2020, Kirschner argued that President Donald Trump should be charged with manslaughter for deaths resulting from him intentionally lying to the American public about the danger posed by COVID-19 virus during the COVID pandemic. [22] [23]

Kirschner produces a daily legal news analysis video on his Justice Matters YouTube channel. [24] In November 2022, Kirschner teamed up with YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen [25] to produce occasional Legal Breakdown videos, [26] in which Cohen interviews Kirschner on topics such as the former president and allies' legal exposure in various civil suits and criminal cases. [27]

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