Joseph M. Nursey | Supervising Attorney

Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (1999-present); Private Practitioner, criminal defense and civil rights litigation, Atlanta, GA (1994-1999); Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (1992-1994); Attorney and Director of Interns, The Team Defense Project, Atlanta, GA (1978-1992); Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, FL (1977-1978). Argued Burger v. Kemp, 483 U.S. 776 (1987), in U.S. Supreme Court.

Instructor at numerous state and regional programs on death penalty defense and criminal defense, including: Faculty, National Defender Training Project, 2011 Trial Advocacy Program, University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, OH, June 2011; Faculty, Public Defender Association of Pennsylvania, Appellate Advocacy Training, The Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA, March 2011; Faculty, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, Appellate Defender Training, New Orleans, LA, January 2011; Faculty, Public Defender Association of Pennsylvania, Trial Advocacy Training, The Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA, June 2008; Faculty, Georgia Public Defender Council, Appellate Defender Training Program, Atlanta, GA, October 2006; Faculty, National Association for Sentencing Advocacy and Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Persuasive Sentencing Advocacy Training, Washington, D.C., February 2004.

University of Florida College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1976; University of Central Florida, B.S., magna cum laude, 1974.

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