John F. Banzhaf III
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| Born |
John Francis Banzhaf III July 2, 1940 New York City |
| Education | BSEE, J.D. |
| Alma mater |
Stuyvesant High School Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia University Law School |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | George Washington University Law School |
| Known for | litigation |
| Website | banzhaf |
John Francis Banzhaf III (/ˈbænz.hɑːf/; born July 2, 1940) is an American public interest lawyer, legal activist and a law professor at George Washington University Law School. He is the founder of an antismoking advocacy group, Action on Smoking and Health. He is noted for his advocacy and use of lawsuits as a method to promote what he believes is the public interest.
Banzhaf was born July 2, 1940 in New York City. He graduated at the age of 15 from Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, one of the three academically elite high-schools of the NYC Public School System. He went on to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and from Columbia Law School with a Juris Doctor.
Banzhaf filed a complaint with the Maryland's Attorney Grievance Commission against Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, the State's attorney of Baltimore, saying she did not have probable cause to charge six officers in the death of Freddie Gray, and also that she repeatedly withheld evidence from the officers' defense attorneys. He compared her to Michael Nifong and his handling of the Duke lacrosse case
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