Professor Thomas received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Kenyon
College in 1965 and his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1968. In 1970,
after two years in private practice, he became assistant director of the Mandel Legal Aid
Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. 

From 1972 to 1975, he was the director of the Woodlawn Criminal Defense Consortium, a
criminal defense litigation teaching program at the University of Chicago. From 1975
until joining the faculty of Chicago-Kent in January 1979, Professor Thomas was a partner
in the Chicago firm of Clark, Thomas & Piers. He teaches courses in criminal
procedure at the law school.

Articles

OpenURL

Prohibiting Prosecutorial Vindictiveness While Protecting Prosecutorial Discretion: Toward a Principled Resolution of a Due Process Dilemma, (with C.P. Erlinder), Northwestern Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1985)
 

Books

Criminal Constitutional Law (co-author with C.P. Erlinder & David Rudstein) (1990)
 

Contributions to Books

Attorneys' Fees in Settlement of Civil Rights Cases: Facing up to Conflict of Interest Problems, (with L. Kragie), Police Misconduct & Civil Rights Law Report (1983)