Lawrence Eric Taylor (April 1, 1942 - October 4, 2023) was an American attorney and author. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA School of Law, Taylor was a public defender and criminal prosecutor in Los Angeles County before entering private practice.
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| Born | Lawrence Eric Taylor April 1, 1942[1] |
| Died | October 4, 2023 (aged 81) Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA)[1] University of California, Los Angeles (JD)[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Attorney, author |
| Military Service | |
| Service/ | United States Marine Corps[1] |
| Years of service | 1961-1964[1] |
| Website | DUI Center |
Taylor served in the United States Marine Corps from 1961 to 1964.
He served as a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County from 1970 to 1971 and as a Deputy Public Defender from 1971 to 1972.[1]
In the case of the People v. Charles Manson, Taylor was the trial court's legal advisor.[2] He was also counsel to the California Supreme Court in the Onion Field murder case, and an independent Special Prosecutor retained by the Attorney General of Montana to conduct a one-year grand jury probe of government corruption from 1975 to 1976.[1] Taylor was voted "professor of the year" during his tenure at Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington from 1982 to 1985.[1] He was also a Fulbright Professor of Law at Osaka University in Japan in 1985[1] and a visiting professor at Pepperdine University School of Law.[3]
He founded and served as dean of the National College for DUI Defense from 1995 to 1996.[1] He has lectured at over 200 lawyers' seminars in 38 states.[3] He is the author of 12 books, including the well-known textbook on the subject of DUI, now in its seventh edition. On July 25, 2002, Taylor was presented with the NCDD's "Lifetime Achievement Award" at Harvard Law School.[4]
On or before October 4, 2023 at their home in Naples, Long Beach, Lawrence Eric Taylor shot and killed his wife Judy Strother Taylor, 75 before committing suicide.
Books edit
- Drunk Driving Defense 7th Edition. (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers ISBN 0-7355-5429-3)(Co-authored with Steven Oberman beginning with the 5th edition)
- Born to Crime (Greenwood Press ISBN 0-313-24172-4)
- California Drunk Driving Defense, 3rd Edition (West ISBN 0-314-26005-6)
- The D.A.: A True Story (William Morrow ISBN 0-688-11731-7)
- Eyewitness Identification (Michie ISBN 0-87215-423-8)
- Handling Criminal Appeals (West ISBN 0-685-59836-5)
- Scientific Interrogation (Michie ISBN 0-87215-685-0)
- Setting Sail (Icarus ISBN 0-8965170-0-4)
- To Honor and Obey (William Morrow ISBN 0-688-09854-1)
- Trail of the Fox (Simon and Schuster ISBN 0-671-25227-5)
- A Trial of Generals (Icarus ISBN 0-89651-775-6)
- Witness Immunity (Charles C.Thomas ISBN 0-398-04765-0)
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Hubbell, Martindale (March 2001). Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory: California (A-R, Volume 2, 2001). Martindale-Hubbell. ISBN 9781561604395.
- ^ To Honor and Obey, page 389.
- ^ a b "NCDD Home". Archived from the original on 2014-07-24.
- ^ "Lawrence E. Taylor". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07.