Retired trial attorney David Coey dies at 85
David Conrad Coey, a retired attorney from East Lansing, died January 23 in Cape Coral, Fla., at the age of 85.
A Chicago native, Coey graduated East Lansing High School in 1948 and spent four years in the U.S. Navy.
He earned his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in 1956 and his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1959.
He practiced law for 50 years, focusing his practice on business litigation, personal injury, and alternative dispute resolution. He retired at the age of 80.
Named a “Super Lawyer,” he was a member of the Ingham County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Michigan; Association of Insurance Attorneys; Defense Research Institute; and Michigan Association of Defense Trial Counsel.
He was honored with the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel's Excellence in Defense Award, 1995; 1995 Leo A. Farhat Outstanding Lawyer of the Year Award. He was a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; and American Board of Trial Advocacies.
Coey is survived by his wife Barbara, sons David and Kurt, daughter Deborah, and six grandchildren.
A memorial celebration will be held 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Thursday, May 12, at the University Club in East Lansing.
WMU-Cooley hosts Law Journal symposium on wrongful convictions
Is a wrongful conviction a life sentence? What really happens to an individual after exoneration? What does it mean to be factually innocent?
WMU-Cooley Innocence Project hosted the 2016 Law Journal Symposium where a distinguished panel of speakers answer these questions. Professor Marla Mitchell-Cichon, director of WMU-Cooley’s Innocence Project, moderated the March 18 event at the law school’s Cooley Center. Founding executive director Norman Fell and Senator Steve Bieda were honored for their contributions to the Project’s work.
The WMU-Cooley Innocence Project works to secure the release of factually innocent Michigan prisoners through post-conviction DNA testing. WMU-Cooley established the program in the wake of a 2001 Michigan law permitting post-conviction DNA analysis of biological evidence when that evidence is material to the identity of the perpetrator.
Since its inception in 2001, the Project has screened over 5,300 cases and exonerated three men based on the results of DNA testing.
The purpose of the symposium was to educate the public and explore ways to make those who have been wrongfully convicted whole.
The WMU-Cooley Law Journal Symposium on March 18 features a distinguished panel of speakers including Kenneth Wyniemko, Valerie Newman, Prof. Laura Caldwell, Dr. Zieva Konvisser, and State Senator Steve Bieda.
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