Professor King was previously the James P. Morefield Professor of Law, Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, and Director of Experiential Education at Washington and Lee School of Law. His scholarship focuses on indigent criminal defense systems and the right to counsel, as well as criminal defense and prosecution ethics. Before joining W&L, he was a supervising attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. He has a B.A. in History and Religious Studies from Brown University, a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and an LL.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center.

Articles and Chapters

Juries, Democracy, and Petty Crime, 24 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 817 (2022)

Gamesmanship and Criminal Process, 58 American Criminal Law Review 47 (2021)

The Meaning of a Misdemeanor in a Post-Ferguson World: Evaluating the Reliability of Prior Conviction Evidence, 54 Georgia Law Review 927 (2020)

Privatizing Criminal Procedure, 107 Georgetown Law Journal 561 (2019)

The Public Defender as International Transplant, 38 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 831 (2017)

Recognizing the Limits of the Right to Counsel as a Guarantee of Justice, 12 Revista de Derechos Fundamentales (Chile) 67 (2015)

Beyond “Life and Liberty:” The Evolving Right to Counsel, 48 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (2013)

Procedural Justice, Collateral Consequences, and the Adjudication of Misdemeanors, in The Prosecutor in Transnational Perspective (Oxford University Press, Erik Luna & Marianne Wade, eds.) (2012)

Candor, Zeal, and the Substitution of Judgment: Ethics and the Mentally Ill Criminal Defendant, 58 American University Law Review 207 (2008)

Shorter Essays and Op-Eds

SCOTUS should heed Gorsuch and require juries for petty crimes, The Hill, June 5, 2024 (with Andrea Roth), available at SCOTUS should heed Gorsuch and require juries for petty crimes (thehill.com)

Anything but Petty, Inquest (Harvard online journal), October 25, 2022 (with Andrea Roth), available at https://inquest.org/anything-but-petty/

Farmer Bruck: A Tribute to David Bruck, 78 Washington and Lee Law Review 604 (2021) (with Johanna Bond)

Coercion, Consent, Compassion, 70 Washington and Lee Law Review 823 (2013)

Lamentations, Celebrations, and Innovations: Gideon at 50, 70 Washington and Lee Law Review 835 (2013)

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• Criminal Sentencing
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