RETIRED JUDGE PHILLIP A. HUBBART ON FROM DEATH ROW TO FREEDOM

RETIRED JUDGE PHILLIP A. HUBBART served for 19 years on the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida; 12 years as a public defender in Washington, D.C., and Miami; and more than 30 years as an adjunct law professor in Miami. He is the author of four books, including Making Sense of Search and Seizure Law: A Fourth Amendment Handbook, a major treatise on the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; a collection of his great-great-grandfather's Civil War letters; and an anthology on the widening gap between the rich and poor in America. While serving as a public defender and a criminal defense attorney, he represented Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee from 1965 to 1975 in a first-degree murder case in the Florida Panhandle. They were pardoned in 1975 by Gov. Reubin Askew and the Florida Cabinet, a story told in Hubbart's latest book, From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case (University Press of Florida).