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Canterbury Welcomes LIFT Speaker Linda McDermott
Canterbury students learned about the current state of the death penalty during a visit from Linda McDermott, our latest guest for our Leadership Institute for Tomorrow (LIFT) Lecture Series.
Linda McDermott, the parent of Mia ’22 and Brennan ’28, currently serves as the Chief of the Capital Habeas Unit for the Office of the Federal Defender for the Northern District of Florida. She has been representing capital postconviction defendants in the state and federal courts for the past twenty-four years. She has successfully represented several capital defendants, including exonerees Juan Melendez and Rudolph Holton. In November of 2009, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari and a new penalty phase for her client, George Porter, Jr., based on the substantial mitigation presented in postconviction. Linda is a founding board member of the National Habeas Institute.
Click below to watch the presentation.
