RITCHIE TRIAL: DEFENSE TEAM

Michael W. Krumholtz

Age: 42
Partner: Bieser, Greer & Landis
Born: Dayton
Education: Denison University 1976, University of Cincinnati Law School1979
Career:

1979-82 Assistant Montgomery County prosecutor;

1982- Bieser, Greer & Landis.

Former chairman of ethics committee of Dayton Bar Association

1987-88 Secretary of Dayton Bar Association

1993-Co-counsel in the defense of Herman Harris Jr. and helped to thwartProsecutor Mathias H. Heck Jr.'s prosecution for aggravated murder and apossible death penalty. Harris was convicted of murder, not aggravatedmurder.

David P. Williamson

Age: 42
Partner: Bieser, Greer & Landis
Born: Camden, N.J.
Raised: Youngstown
Education: Ohio University 1975; Ohio State University College of Law 1978
Career:

1978 - One of John W. Kessler's last hires to Montgomery County PublicDefender Office before Kessler quit. Also did appellate work in defender'soffice.

1983-88 - Montgomery County Common Pleas Court referee

1988 - Joined Bieser, Greer & Landis

1984-1985 - Twice was one of three Democratic candidates offered to OhioGovernor Richard Celeste for appointment to a Common Pleas Court judgeship.

1994 - Represented ousted Public Defender Kurt R. Portmann in hislitigation to retain a position on the staff of the Public Defender's Officeafter a board fired him for making inappropriate racial remarks at a downtownbar and restaurant and in disciplinary action before Ohio Supreme Court.

Krumholtz and Williamson have represented criminal clients in thesehigh-profile cases:

1989 - Riverside Police Chief Linus Bauer, accused of two felonies and twomisdemeanor civil rights violations of a teen-age couple who claimed heordered them to engage in sex while he watched. Bauer was convicted andreceived probation.

1992 - Juvenile David E. Clark in the arson death of 12-year-old AmandaSimpson at 831 Clover St. Clark was tried and convicted as an adult ofaggravated murder.

1994 - Gary Bowers, a teacher at Indian Valley Middle School, chargesstemming from allegations that he fondled three female students on threedifferent occasions in 1993. Won an acquittal.

DAYTON DAILY NEWS
Copyright (c) 1996, Dayton Newspapers Inc.
Published: Sunday, January 28, 1996