Mark R. Dwyer, Honorable

Judge

New York County Supreme Court, Criminal Term

Mark Dwyer is a Judge of the New York Court of Claims and an Acting Justice of the New York Supreme Court, Criminal Term, assigned to Brooklyn and occasionally Manhattan. He received his B.A. at Princeton and his J.D. from the Yale Law School. Dwyer then spent a year clerking in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York and a year as a writing instructor at the NYU School of Law. Next came 33 years in the New York County District Attorney's Office, all but the last few months in the Appeals Bureau. During his time in Appeals he was, for five years, the Deputy Bureau Chief, and then, for about 24 years, the Bureau Chief. During the last decade Dwyer was also Counsel to District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau. Finally, for seven months in 2009 he worked as the Chief Assistant District Attorney. Dwyer is a co-Chair of New York State Justice Task Force and has been the Chief of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Standards Committee and the Chair of the New York State Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section. He has also been a member of OCA's Advisory Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure, a member of the Task Force that drafted the ABA's standards on biological evidence, a member of the Board of Directors of the Eastern District Civil Litigation Fund, and the co-chair of the State Bar's recent Task Force on Criminal Discovery. With four others, Dwyer is an author of Thompson West's New York Pretrial Criminal Procedure. Justice Dwyer lives with his wife and daughter in Park Slope.