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Theresa M. Duncan Practice Areas: Teri began her legal career as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Lynn Pickard of the New Mexico Court of Appeals. After gaining the judicial perspective of appellate practice, she joined the appellate division of the New Mexico Public Defender Department and worked as an attorney briefing and arguing appeals before the New Mexico Court of Appeals and the New Mexico Supreme Court. She was subsequently asked to join Professor Barbara Bergman, her former evidence and trial practice teacher, as a member of the trial team defending Terry Nichols in the Oklahoma state prosecution arising from the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Mr. Nichols was already serving a federal life sentence as a convicted coconspirator of Timothy McVeigh, who was executed for his own role, and the state prosecution was an effort by Oklahoma authorities to have an Oklahoma jury assess a death sentence against Mr. Nichols. The defense effort was necessarily long and complex, both in the pretrial proceedings and in the lengthy trial itself. Despite the jury’s finding that Mr. Nichols was indeed culpable in the deaths of the hundreds of people in the bombing, some members of the jury ultimately agreed with the defense team that the death penalty should not be imposed and Mr. Nichols was sentenced to life in prison. In 2004, Teri joined Freedman Boyd Daniels Hollander & Goldberg, where she practices primarily in the areas of criminal defense, civil rights, and appellate practice. In addition to her active law practice with the firm, she is a published author for the prestigious law book publisher, West Publishing Company. She is a co-author of two sets of their current treatise collections, Wharton's Criminal Procedure and the annual supplements to Wharton's Criminal Evidence. Her practice with the firm consists of criminal and civil trials and appeals in both the state and federal courts. Most of her practice is devoted to criminal defense and civil rights litigation. Teri has defended clients charged with a variety of crimes, ranging all the way from driving while intoxicated and other misdemeanors to capital first degree murder. Education
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