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Our clinic staff consists of two faculty members,
eight fellows, an investigations supervisor, an executive
assistant, and a receptionist.
John M. Copacino
Professor Copacino is Director
of the Criminal Justice Clinic and the E. Barrett
Prettyman graduate program in criminal trial practice.
Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, he was the
Director of the Juvenile Law Clinic at the Antioch
School of Law. He is a graduate of the University
of Virginia Law School and received an LL.M. from
the Law Center. He serves as trial counsel in numerous
criminal and post-conviction cases. In 1997, he received
the Law Center's Flegal Award for outstanding teaching.
He is active in local criminal justice organizations.
Sarah E. Young
Sarah is the Investigations Supervisor and Director of the Investigative Internship Program. Sarah received a B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Prior to joining the clinic staff, Sarah spent three and half years working as a Staff Investigator at the DC Public Defender Service, investigating felony cases on behalf of indigent clients. She also worked as an investigator at the Buncombe County Public Defender Service in North Carolina.
Teruko Richardson
Teruko Richardson is the Executive Assistant for the Criminal
Justice Clinic. She handles all administrative matters necessary
to ensure an efficient work flow. Prior to joining our staff
in March, 1982, Teruko worked with the Law Offices of Mitchell,
Shorter & Gartrell.
 Lula Hagos
Lula graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2009 and received her B.A. in politics from the University of Virginia in 2004. Prior to law school, she spent two years as a middle school teacher in Atlanta through the program Teach For America. While at Georgetown, Lula participated in the Street Law Clinic and the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic where she represented juveniles charged with misdemeanors and felonies in D.C. Superior Court. After earning her J.D., she worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia as a post-graduate fellow in the Trial Division.
 Maile Padilla
Maile Padilla received a B.A. in Sociology and Chicano Studies from the U.C.L.A. in 2007 and a J.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law in 2010. While at U.C.L.A., she conducted ethnographic research at the Kenyon Juvenile Justice Center in South Central Los Angeles. There, she studied the influence of race and socially-constructed identities on the assessment of juveniles’ moral character by courts and probation. While in law school, she worked with Uncommon Law, participated in the Death Penalty Clinic, directed the Juvenile Hall Outreach Program, and organized the La Raza Law Student’s Association Worker’s Rights Clinic. During her 1L summer, she developed clients’ life histories as a clerk for the Unrepresented Condemned Inmate Project at the California Appellate Project in San Francisco. She spent her 2L summer as a Trial Division Clerk at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. After earning her J.D., she worked as public defender in California. Maile is a 2006 U.C.L.A. Law Fellow.
 Emily Stirba
Emily received a B.A. in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from Princeton University in 2004 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2010. During law school, Emily participated in the Prison Legal Services clinic where she represented prisoners challenging conditions of confinement in Connecticut state and federal prisons. Emily also spent three semesters in the Immigration Legal Services clinic representing immigrants in asylum, cancellation of removal, and post-asylum proceedings, as well as a semester interning in the New Haven Juvenile Public Defenders office. She spent her summers working as a legal intern for the ACLU and a law clerk for the Orleans Public Defenders.
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