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Andrew King-Ries
Assistant Professor of Law
406.243.2134
andrew.king-ries@umontana.edu
Law 158
  Professor Andrew King-Ries
     

Professor King-Ries teaches Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, Juvenile Justice, Law & Literature, and White Collar Crime. He has taught clinical and constitutional law.

He was a speechwriter for the Secretary of Education, Lauro Cavazos; a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit; and, for eight years, was a prosecutor, specializing in domestic violence cases, for the King County Prosecutor's Office in Seattle, Washington. Professor King-Ries is married, has a seven-year-old son, and a fourteen-year-old dog.

Professor King-Ries graduated from Brown University in 1988 with a degree in History. He received his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was Order of the Coif and an editor on the Washington University Law Quarterly.

His recent publications are:

An Argument for Original Intent: Restoring Rule 801(d)(1)(A) to Protect Domestic Violence Victims in a Post-Crawford World, 27 Pace L. Rev. 199 (2007).

Forfeiture by Wrongdoing: A Panacea for Victimless Domestic Violence Prosecutions, 39 Creighton L. Rev. 441 (2006).

State v. Mizenko: The Montana Supreme Court Wades into the Post-Crawford Waters, 67 Mont. L. Rev. 275 (2006).

Crawford v. Washington: The End of Victimless Prosecutions?, 28 Seattle U. L. Rev. 301 (2005).

True to Character: Honoring the Intellectual Foundations of the Character Evidence Rule in Domestic Violence Prosectuions, 23 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 313 (2004).

 
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