Bill Robinson joined FDAP as a Staff Attorney in July of 2023. Prior to this, since 1998, Bill was a Staff Attorney, Assistant Director, and Senior Staff Attorney at SDAP, where his work focused on mentoring panel members in homicide and sex-crime cases as part of the Greening program. Before this, Bill was a panel attorney for 16 years. Bill has written articles and conducted training on many topics, including issue spotting, homicide law, credits, how to write a brief, oral argument, the Ex Post Facto Clause, and the 2022 new sentencing laws. Among his many published wins and losses are two gems, People v. Mendoza (1998) 18 Cal.4th 1114 (aiding and abetting requires a specific intent, even for a general intent
crime, such that intoxication evidence is admissible), and People v. McWilliams (2023) 14 Cal.5th 429 (a police officer’s discovery of a parole search condition does not attenuate the wrongfulness of a preceding unlawful detention). Bill is a longtime resident of San Francisco and has two wonderfully grown-up daughters.