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Timestamp: 2019-04-24 16:14:25+00:00

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Brent Newton joins our firm after 10 years as the Deputy Director of the United States Sentencing Commission, which issues the federal sentencing guidelines and their annual amendments. Brent worked closely with Commissioners and federal judges around the country and oversaw Commission staff members’ work on several major guideline amendments from 2009-2018. He also was the primary author of five Commission publications, including the Commission’s report, Federal Alternative-to-Incarceration Court Programs.
Brent is a “lawyer’s lawyer.” After clerking for Judge Carolyn King of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, he served for over a decade as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Houston. There, he handled over 1,000 cases of all types, from complex white-collar trials to death penalty appeals, at all levels of the federal court system. He tried several dozen cases to verdict – often to acquittal; handled dozens of appeals; and argued for the petitioner in Gonzalez v. United States, 553 U.S. 242 (2008), before the United States Supreme Court.
A well-recognized expert on federal criminal law and sentencing, Brent is an adjunct professor of law at both American University and Georgetown University. He has authored three books (all published by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy) and many law review articles and book chapters. From 1999-2009, he was a contributing editor of the Journal of Appellate Practice and Process. He is a frequent speaker at CLE programs around the country on topics ranging from legal ethics to federal trial and appellate practice.
Brent served as first-chair or sole defense counsel in eleven federal criminal trials where complete acquittals were obtained.
United States v. Smith, Cr. No. H-06-399 (S.D. Tex. Sept. 21, 2007); United States v. Mobee, Cr. No. H-02-270 (S.D. Tex. Oct. 6, 2004); United States v. Emmitt, Cr. No. H-02-728 (S.D. Tex. May 13, 2003); United States v. Cruz, Cr. No. H-02-359 (S.D. Tex. Nov. 5, 2002); United States v. Robinson, Cr. No. H-99-381 (S.D. Tex. July 9, 2002); United States v. Stringer, Cr. No. H-01-240 (S.D. Tex. Oct. 16, 2001); United States v. Bush, Cr. No. H-01-23 (S.D. Tex. May 24, 2001); United States v. Crockett, Cr. No. H-00-693 (S.D. Tex. Dec. 8, 2000); United States v. Escamilla, Cr. No. H-99-639 (S.D. Tex. Jan. 10, 2000); United States v. Alexander, Cr. No. H-98-469 (S.D. Tex. June 18, 1999); United States v. Phillips, Cr. No. H-97-90 (S.D. Tex. Sept. 22, 1998).
Brent obtained federal habeas corpus relief for an innocent Texas prisoner (who was later awarded compensation by the State of Texas for his wrongful conviction). Richard Sturgeon v. Nathaniel Quarterman, 615 F. Supp.2d 546 (S.D. Tex. 2009).
On direct appeal, Brent obtained a reversal of a federal defendant’s sentence based on the district court’s erroneous application of the federal sentencing guidelines. United States v. Herrera-Montes, 490 F.3d 390 (5th Cir. 2007).
Brent obtained federal habeas corpus relief for a state prisoner based on Texas’s unconstitutional stalking statute. Darrell Alexander v. Gary Johnson, 217 F. Supp.2d 780 (S.D. Tex. 2001), aff’d, 294 F.3d 626 (5th Cir. 2002).
Brent obtained a reversal of a Florida inmate’s death sentence on direct appeal. Johnson v. State, 750 So.2d 22 (Fla. 1999).

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