Donald Eugene Wilkes Jr. (July 30, 1944 – June 7, 2019) from Daytona Beach,

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) was professor of law at the

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. A graduate of the

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, 1965; J.D., 1969) Wilkes became professor of law at the University of Georgia in 1971. He was a member of the State Bar of Georgia starting in 1972 and in 1975–1976 was a fellow in Law and the Humanities at

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. An authority on the law of

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, Wilkes's work ''State Postconviction Remedies and Relief Handbook'' was cited by the

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in the case ''Wall v. Kholi'' 131 S.Ct. 1278 (U.S. 2011). Wilkes is credited with the introduction of the term New Federalism in relation to criminal procedure in the United States in a series of essays in the ''Kentucky law Journal'' in the mid 1970s. Wilkes retired from University of Georgia School of Law in 2012. He died, aged 74, on June 7, 2019.

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