Barry Scheck

Barry Scheck
Scheck at the LBJ Presidential Library, 2014
Born
Barry Charles Scheck

(1949-09-19) September 19, 1949 (age 74)
Queens, New York, U.S.
Alma materYale University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (MCP, JD)
Occupations
  • Attorney
  • legal scholar
Known forMember of the O. J. Simpson defense team

Barry Charles Scheck (born September 19, 1949) is an American attorney and legal scholar. He received national media attention while serving on O. J. Simpson's defense team, collectively dubbed the "Dream Team", helping to win an acquittal in the highly publicized murder case. Scheck is the director of the Innocence Project and a professor at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.[1]

  1. ^ Gitschier, Jane (2013). "The Innocence Project at Twenty: An Interview with Barry Scheck". PLOS Genetics. 9 (8): e1003692. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003692. PMC 3738447. PMID 23950733.