TIM JUNKIN
Washington, D.C.

Tim Junkin graduated from the University of Maryland with honors and from Georgetown University Law School in 1977. He began his legal career as a public defender. He served as counsel in several notable murder trials before becoming a national trial lawyer in private practice. He has taught at Georgetown, Harvard and American University, where he received the Adjunct Professor of the Year Award. Currently, he practices law with his partner John Moffett (Moffett&Junkin, Chartered). John is also lending his considerable expertise to the MacDonald case.

Mr. Junkin is also the author of three books, the novels Good Counsel (2000) and The Waterman (1999), as well as Bloodsworth (2004).

Since writing the story of Kirk Bloodsworth, the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA tests, Tim Junkin has become deeply involved in the issue of wrongful convictions. He felt compelled to take on the MacDonald case, viewing it as “the most horrendous case of injustice” he had seen in all of his years of practice.

WADE SMITH
Raleigh, North Carolina

Wade Smith co-founded the law firm of Tharrington Smith in 1964. During the ensuing forty years-plus years, he has tried and defended dozens of federal and state cases in North Carolina and other states. Also during those years, Mr. Smith was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives twice, and served as President of the Wake County Bar Association, among other distinctions.

In 1979, he served as co-counsel (with Bernard Segal), defending Jeff MacDonald at trial. Losing this case, in which an innocent man went to prison, was a huge blow to Mr. Smith personally. He has supported Jeff MacDonald for the past 26 years as local counsel, but has now come back on board full-time “to right this terrible wrong” along with long-time Tharrington Smith attorney Melissa Hill.

His illustrious and storied career was recognized once again in 2004 when his peers voted him North Carolina’s Number One Criminal Litigator for 2004 (Business North Carolina Magazine). He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since its inception.

Most recently, Mr. Smith has been noted for his work in the Duke-Lacrosse case, and the eventual disbarment of prosecutor Michael Nifong.

HART MILES
Raleigh, North Carolina

Hart Miles graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his law degree at Campbell University Law School. A native of Raleigh, his legal career began at the Wake County Courthouse, where he served as an Assistant District Attorney. In 1997, Mr. Miles went into solo practice as a criminal defense lawyer in Raleigh, where he has tried cases in both state and federal courts. He joins the defense to contribute considerable legal efforts toward achieving Jeff MacDonald's exoneration.

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PHIL CORMIER and ANDY GOOD
Boston, Massachusetts

The firm of Good & Cormier (formerly Silverglate & Good) has handled the MacDonald case since 1989, when attorney Harvey Silverglate (now of counsel to Good & Cormier) took the case because of his belief in Jeff MacDonald’s innocence. Andy Good, Phil Cormier and Harvey Silverglate have been heavily involved in the appeals process and DNA issues of the case, and are committed to Jeff’s criminal defense as well as student rights, civil liberties, and constitutional litigation.