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Kenneth Troccoli Adjunct Professor WCL Adjunct Faculty

Degrees
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center 2001
J.D., George Washington University 1984
B.A., Boston College 1981

Bio


Professor Kenneth P. Troccoli is as an adjunct faculty member and the Stephen S. Weinstein Advocacy Program Fellow. He teaches Evidence, Criminal Procedure I, and Advanced Legal Analysis.


For over nineteen years (until June 2021), Professor Troccoli was an Assistant Federal Public Defender (and since 2015, Senior Litigator) in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of Virginia. In that time, he represented indigent defendants charged with criminal offenses in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Professor Troccoli joined that office in January 2002 and has represented defendants charged with various offenses including fraud, drug trafficking, firearms offenses, immigration, child pornography, sex trafficking, and terrorism. He also has represented in a habeas corpus proceeding a terrorism defendant detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Professor Troccoli also has worked on appellate matters, including cases that were argued before the Supreme Court.


After receiving his J.D., Professor Troccoli served as law clerk to Chief Judge H. Carl Moultrie, I in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Thereafter, for over five years, he practiced primarily white-collar criminal defense at three law firms in Washington, D.C.: Krooth & Altman; Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn; and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He then joined the Office of Public Defender for the City of Alexandria where he worked for over six years (until 1999) first as an assistant public defender and then as a senior assistant public defender. He then returned to school and following receipt of his LL.M. in 2001, joined the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Alexandria.


Professor Troccoli’s prior teaching experience includes positions as a legal writing instructor at American University's Washington College of Law, and at the George Washington University Law School. He also has lectured at legal conferences on various topics of federal criminal law and legal ethics.



His publications include:

Control Over the Defense: Representing Zacarias Moussaoui, The Champion (Dec. 2009)

“I Want a Black Lawyer to Represent Me”: Addressing a Black Defendant’s Concerns With Being Assigned a White Court-Appointed Lawyer, Law & Ineq. (Winter 2002)

The Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, White Collar Crime 1992: Representing Corporations, Financial Institutions and Their Directors, Officers and Employees (1992) (co-author; editor of complete American Bar Association compendium)

Immunity Decisions Will Become Critical to Iran Arms Probes, Legal Times (Jan. 26, 1987) (co-author)
Areas of Specialization
Criminal Law and Procedure
Evidence
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