B.A., Hampden-Sydney College
J.D., Widener University
LL.M., Georgetown University

Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure I & II
Advanced Topics in Criminal Law

J. Richard Broughton is a visiting assistant professor, teaching in the areas of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He brings to Wayne Law a combination of experience in academia and public service, including service in all three branches of government and at both the federal and state levels.

Professor Broughton served for three years as a lawyer in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. There he advised senior Department leaders on issues related to capital punishment and federal criminal law, assisted in prosecuting federal capital crimes, represented the Government in capital appeals and post-conviction litigation, and helped to craft federal crime legislation and to cooperate with Congress in its oversight of the federal death penalty. His cases involved violent crimes arising from gang activity, drug and firearms trafficking, racketeering, and organized crime.

Professor Broughton has also served on the law school faculties at Stetson University and Texas Wesleyan University (where he won two consecutive teaching awards), and on the graduate program faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he was a Lecturer in Government. His scholarship focuses on constitutional law, criminal justice, and political institutions (particularly the American presidency), as well as the intersection of these subjects in American politics. He has published articles in law reviews and journals around the country, and his writing has been cited in opinions from the United States Supreme Court and state appellate courts, as well as numerous prominent law journals.

Prior to beginning his teaching career, Professor Broughton served as Assistant Attorney General of Texas for Capital Litigation, as a law clerk to the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and as a law clerk on the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, during the 106th Congress.