About the Authors

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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HONORABLE EDWARD M. DAVIDOWITZ

Edward Davidowitz was a Justice of the Supreme Court for the crimi-

nal branch of the Bronx County Supreme Court. After his retirement, he

served as a Judicial Hearing Officer in that court. Judge Davidowitz was

admitted to the bar in 1959 after earning his J.D. from Cornell Law

School. Prior to his court appointments, Judge Davidowitz was an assistant

district attorney for six years, worked in private practice for 11 years and

served in various capacities in the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the

Investigation of the New York City Criminal Justice System. He was a

member of the New York State Bar Association, The Association of the

Bar of the City of New York and served on the New York City Bar’s Coun-

cil on Judicial Administration, Council on Criminal Justice, Committee on

Criminal Advocacy, Committee on Criminal Law, Committee on Criminal

Justice Operations and Budget, and Committee on Criminal Courts. He

was also the author of The Practice of Criminal Law Under the CPLR and

Related Civil Procedure Statutes, Fifth Edition (NYSBA 2009; Supple-

ment 2011).

ROBERT L. DREHER, ESQ.

Robert Dreher has been a member of the Bronx District Attorney’s

staff for more than 40 years. He graduated from Cornell Law School in

1973 and has served as a trial assistant, supervisor, deputy, bureau and

division chief. Mr. Dreher presently serves as an Executive Assistant Dis-

trict Attorney and Chief Trial Counsel. He created, and continues to

author, an in-house, online, criminal law research program for the Bronx

District Attorney’s Office titled “Trial Assistance.” He has written for the

Empire State Prosecutor and serves as a lecturer for both the Continuing

Legal Education program and for the training of Assistant District Attor-

neys in the Bronx District Attorney’s Office and other District Attorney

offices in New York State.