William A. Fletcher
| William Fletcher | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
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Assumed office October 9, 1998 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | William Norris |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 6, 1945 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education |
Harvard University (BA) Merton College, Oxford (BA) Yale University (JD) |
William A. Fletcher (born June 6, 1945) is a United States federal appeals court judge who has sat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1998.
Fletcher went to Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Washington, graduating in 1964. Fletcher received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1968 and another from Merton College, Oxford University in 1970 as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1975. He then clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Stanley A. Weigel from 1975 to 1976. Fletcher then clerked for Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1976 to 1977.
Fletcher's mother, Betty Binns Fletcher, was also a judge on the Ninth Circuit, although she held senior status from 1998 until her death in 2012.
Fletcher teaches Federal Courts at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall).
Fletcher was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy from 1970 to 1972 and a Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley from 1977 to 1998. Fletcher was the author of the Ninth Circuit's decision in Demers v. Austin (January 2014). He also published a 100-page dissent on the decision to deny Kevin Cooper an en banc hearing. Cooper had been convicted of murdering a family and a houseguest and DNA testing placed his blood on a shirt that contained the victim's blood. In the dissent Fletcher raised the possibility that the Prosecution had deliberately planted Cooper's blood on the shirt, as well as various other pieces of evidence. Notably 10 additional judges on the panel expressed similar concerns, including Chief Justice Alex Kozinski (http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/05/11/05-99004o.pdf).
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