Author Ronald Bacigal has served as a Professor of Law since 1971. He currently teaches at the University of Richmond. Mr. Bacigal received his B.A from Concord College and completed his law degree at Washington and Lee University. He was a Fulbright Scholar recipient to the University of Amsterdam. Mr. Bacigal is a Reporter of Criminal Case for the Virginia Court of Appeals and the Former Chair of Criminal Law Section of the Association of American Law School. Professor Mary Kelly Tate teaches at the University of Richmond Law School, where she serves as Director of the Law School's Institute for Actual Innocence – an organization that works to identify and exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals in Virginia by pursuing writs of actual innocence and related post-conviction relief. Ms. Tate has also served as Assistant Public Defender in the Richmond Public Defender's Office. As an attorney in private practice, she has represented individuals in post-conviction capital and criminal litigation. She earned her B.A. from the University of Kansas and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Ms. Tate clerked for Federal District Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr. of the Eastern District of Virginia immediately after law school. She is a frequent speaker at national symposiums and she and her students are actively involved in public policy reform. In addition to this text, Ms. Tate has published articles in various scholarly and general publications.