DEFENDING John W. Poulos -- professor, UC Davis School of Law, (916)
DEATH-ROW 752-2881 (office).
INMATES • Poulos was successful in setting aside a death-penalty sentence for a client in 1988, and currently represents another death-row inmate in the federal court system.
James F. Smith -- lecturer, UC Davis School of Law, (916) 752-3471 (office) or (916) 757-1036 (home).
• Smith is the former director of the law school's prison law clinic, and currently is defending a death-row inmate from Los Angeles.
PUNISHMENT Lincoln Hurst -- associate professor of religious studies,
ACCORDING (916) 752-6700 (office) or (916) 661-3267 (home).
TO 'THE BOOK' • Hurst, a scholar of the Old and New Testaments, can discuss Biblical views of punishment, including executions. He can talk about the various positions Christians might derive from the Bible on the death penalty.
FETAL ALCOHOL Robin L. Hansen -- specialist in pediatric behavior and
SYNDROME development, director of the child development program at the UC Davis Medical Center, (916) 734-7611 (office).
• Hansen has conducted research on substance abuse during pregnancy.
Nancy Joye -- associate clinical professor of pediatrics and director of the normal newborn nursery at the UC Davis Medical Center, (916) 734-5387 (office).
• Joye can discuss fetal alcohol syndrome.