Externship Provides 2L U.S. Supreme Court Brief Writing Experience

August 17, 2009

Second year Capital Law student Darcy Cook was one of three externs at the Fairfield County Prosecutor's office this summer whose work afforded them the opportunity to research and write a brief to the United States Supreme Court. The brief addressed a case of a Lancaster man, David L. Bruce, who was convicted of aggravated murder in 2006. It was written after extensive research into case law and arguments supporting the Fairfield County Prosecutor’s office request for the Supreme Court to disregard the defendant’s appeal.

Cook served as an extern at the Fairfield County Prosecutor’s office by participating in the Capital University Law School externship program, administered by Professor Susan Simms. Each semester upper-class law students have the opportunity to work, for academic credit, in government, judicial, and private practice experiences, where they can gain hands-on legal experience, as well as network with judges, lawyers and other legal professionals.

Cook worked on the brief with two other externs, Joseph Saks and Eugene Roytberg, both second-year students at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

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