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Ralph Adam Fine
Ralph Adam Fine was a justice on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals District I. He joined the court in 1988.[1] Fine passed away in December 2014.[2]
2012 election
Fine ran successfully for re-election to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals District I. He was unopposed.[3]
- See also: Wisconsin judicial elections, 2012
Education
Fine earned his bachelor's from Tufts University in 1962, and his LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1965.[1]
Career
Fine was a judge on the District I Court of Appeals from 1988 to 2014. Prior to joining the court of appeals, he was a judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court from 1979 to 1988 and presided in over 350 jury trials. He is author of Fine's Wisconsin Evidence, Escape of the Guilty, The Great Drug Deception, and several other books on trial law.[4]
Fine was the presiding judge in the PBS Frontline production Inside the Jury Room, which was the first time jury deliberations in a criminal trial were filmed and broadcast. Judge Fine has taught trial-advocacy, evidence, and appellate-advocacy at over one-hundred continuing-legal-education programs around the country, at in-house trial-advocacy programs to law-firm litigation departments, and as Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D.C. In January of 1995, the University of Virginia School of Law honored Judge Fine with the Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr., Award for his contributions to the teaching of trial advocacy.
Awards and associations
Awards
- William J. Brennan, Jr. Award
Associations
- Elected member, American Law Institute[1]
Fine analyzed legal issues on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and PBS' The NewsHour, and was a periodic guest on Crossfire and Larry King Live.
From May 1974, through December 1975, he was a reporter for WITI-TV, the Milwaukee CBS television affiliate. Two of his reports won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club for journalistic excellence. From 1975 to 1978, he was host of A Fine Point, which featured such guests as Nobel laureates Elie Wiesel and Milton Friedman.[5]
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