"David Rudolf" is a defense lawyer.

He attended Rutgers University and the London School of Economics, and received his law degree from New York University School of Law.

Rudolf has served as an Adjunct Professor at both the Duke University School of Law and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.

He has defended clients such as Rae Carruth and Michael Peterson (author)/Michael Peterson, the latter trial being the subject of the documentary Soupçons (The Staircase).

Rudolf is currently serving as local counsel in Durham, North Carolina for New York City lawyer Barry Scheck, who was hired by falsely accused Duke lacrosse player Reade Seligmann to represent him in a likely civil lawsuit to be filed against the city of Durham and its former district attorney, Mike Nifong.[http://www.newsobserver.com/news/crime_safety/duke_lacrosse/story/684662.html newsobserver.com / Review of lacrosse case halted]

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Our position is that he had absolutely nothing to do with it. It was an accident. It happened while he was [outside] the house. When you listen to that 911 tape, you can come away with nothing but a man in anguish at finding his wife in a pool of blood at the bottom of a staircase.

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What our experts tell us happened ... is that at some point Kathleen fell backward and hit her head. She lay bleeding, gets up, steps into the pool of blood, slips and hits her head again ... She bled out.

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These attorneys speaking out - they feel a need to defend their clients. Ethics rules (in North Carolina) allow for that. I think any criminal attorney would not be serving their client's interests if they did not speak out.

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When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me; it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement; and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.

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