Charles H. Whitebread (April 2, 1943 – September 16, 2008) was the George T. Pfleger Professor of Law at the

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. He was an authority on criminal law and criminal procedure, writing and lecturing on those and other subjects throughout the United States.

Early life

Whitebread was born on April 2, 1943, in

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. He attended

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(1965), where he was an honors graduate, and

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(1968), where he was an editor for the

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Academic career

After briefly working at

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, he became a professor at the

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, where he taught for 13 years, and then moved to the

. Whitebread was also a lecturer in

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and

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for BarBri. He was very popular with BarBri students, who have started

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groups in appreciation of his unique and humorous lectures. It is believed that Whitebread taught more law students than any other professor in the country due to his long service and the nationwide publication of his criminal law and procedure lectures. It is also thought that Whitebread instructed more police officers than any other instructor in modern history through his long years as an instructor at the FBI school at Quantico. Whitebread gave the keynote speech at the American Psychology and Law Society (APLS) Annual Conference in

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on March 6, 2008.

Writings

Whitebread was a prolific legal writer, who published a dozen books and over 30

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articles, which includes ''Criminal Procedure'', ''Children in the Legal System'', ''The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School'', and co-authored ''The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition'' (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/vlr/vlrtoc.htm) in the 1970 Virginia Law Review (Vol. 56 OCT. 1970 NUMBER 6) which became the seminal work for ''The Marihuana Conviction'' originally published in 1974. (http://product.half.ebay.com/The-Marihuana-Conviction-A-History-of-Marihuana-Prohibition-in-the-United-States-by-Richard-J-Bonnie-and-Charles-H-Whitebread-1974-Book-Illustrated/1599039) Dave 09:12, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

References

External links

* rcf.usc.edu
Announcement of Whitebread's death
from Above The Law
Eulogy for Charles Whitebread
by

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