Jeremy Fogel

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On December 15, 2006, in the case Morales v. Tilton, Judge Fogel ruled that California execution procedures violate the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because inexperienced, untrained prison staff do executions in crowded, poorly lit settings; Fogel wrote that "implementation of lethal injection" by California "is broken, but...can be fixed." [14] [15] That moratorium came ten months after Fogel issued a ruling two hours prior to the scheduled February 21, 2006 execution of Michael Morales with conditions to prevent a painful execution: instead of administering it via intravenous tube, a licensed medical professional would have to inject sodium thiopental directly into Morales' vein. California then delayed the execution, as it could not comply with Fogel's order. [16] Under the same painful death criteria, Fogel issued a stay of execution for Albert Greenwood Brown on September 28, 2010, two days before Brown was scheduled to be executed. [17] In response to Fogel's ruling in Morales v. Tilton, The New York Times wrote in a 2011 editorial: "For legislators in state capitols considering whether to abolish the [death] penalty... this case... has documented how lethal injection can be cruel and unusual punishment when unprofessionally administered and how the culture of prisons breeds that shoddy approach. It is one more reason to reject the death penalty as a barbaric punishment." [18]

Subsequent career

On September 17, 2018, Fogel became the first Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, a center at Berkeley Law School whose mission is to build bridges between judges and academics and to promote an ethical, resilient and independent judiciary. [19]

Personal life

Fogel married preschool teacher Kathleen Aim Wilcox and lives in Los Altos, California; [1] their son Nate Wilcox-Fogel attended the Menlo School and Stanford University and played on the football teams of both schools. [20]

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Fogel, Jeremy D. - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
  3. "Jeremy Fogel: Courses and Programs". Stanford Law School. Archived from the original on August 3, 2011. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
  4. "Senate Confirms Fogel To Federal Judgeship". San Francisco Chronicle. March 18, 1998. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
  5. "California Judge Orders District To Allow Opting Out of Channel 1". Education Week. December 2, 1992. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012.
  6. Gaura, Maria Alicia (April 2, 1997). "Transit Tax Takes Effect Despite Court Challenge". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. A15.
  7. Gaura, Maria Alicia (April 4, 1997). "Transit Sales Tax Survives Challenge". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. A1.
  8. Lee, Henry K. (January 7, 2011). "FBI employee in S.F. convicted of lying". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. C5.
  9. Egelko, Bob (January 9, 2010). "2 get prison for scamming 24 Hour Fitness". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. C2.
  10. Lee, Henry K. (August 3, 2010). "San Mateo man gets prison in $5 million tax scam". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
  11. Lee, Henry K. (October 2, 2009). "Robber who hit bank 3 times gets 18-year term". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. E3.
  12. Lee, Henry K. (December 4, 2008). "Ex-NASA worker, 64, gets jail for kid porn". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. B3.
  13. Evangelista, Benny (October 31, 2009). "Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711 million". San Francisco Chronicle. p. DC1.
  14. Egelko, Bob (December 15, 2006). "Judge says California's lethal-injection method is flawed". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
  15. "Judge Rules California's Current Lethal Injection Procoedure for Death Row Inmates is Unconstitutional, "But Can Be Fixed"". news.findlaw.com. FindLaw. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  16. Finz, Stacy; Egelko, Bob; Fagan, Kevin (February 22, 2006). "State postpones Morales execution". San Francisco Chronicle. p. A1. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
  17. Egelko, Bob (September 29, 2010). "San Quentin execution blocked by judge". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
  18. "Judge Fogel and the Death Penalty". The New York Times. February 11, 2011. pp. A26.
  19. "Jeremy Fogel : Berkeley Law". Berkeley Law. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  20. Peters, Keith (November 20, 2008). "There's some big ambitions heading into the annual Big Game". Palo Alto Online. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
Jeremy Fogel
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
In office
December 31, 2014 September 14, 2018
Legal offices
Preceded byJudge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
1998–2014
Seat abolished