Daniel Aaron Horowitz (born December 14, 1954) is a high-profile defense attorney and TV legal analyst with an extensive computer and business background. He was one of the first attorneys to bring a computer into the courtroom. Horowitz is a licensed real-estate broker and has been counsel for a major investment firm in New York City. Image File history File linksMetadata 300_Criminal_Defense_Lawyer_Daniel_Horowitz. ... is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... “NY” redirects here. ... is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A lawyer in the United States is technically called an attorney at law or an attorney-at-law. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Background

Daniel Horowitz was born in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College. In 1980, he earned his Juris Doctor from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California. He was admitted into the California State Bar that same year. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... Hampshire College is an experimenting private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. ... Doctor of Law, Doctor of Jurisprudence, or Juris Doctor (abbreviated J.D. or JD, from the Latin, Teacher of Law) is a professional degree in law offered by universities in a number of countries. ... The Southwestern University School of Law (also known as Southwestern Law School) is a private ABA-accredited law school located in Los Angeles, California, with about 1000 students at a campus that includes the Bullocks Wilshire building, an admired art-deco landmark. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...

Because of his successful legal practice, he was a frequent TV commentator during the Scott Peterson trial. He has appeared as a regular legal commentator on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. Scott Lee Peterson (born 24 October 1972) is a former fertilizer salesman convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and unborn son Conner Peterson. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... MSNBC, a combination of MSN and NBC, is a 24-hour cable news channel in the United States and Canada, and a news website. ... Fox News Channels slogan is We Report, You Decide The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. ...

Marriage

Horowitz said he and Pamela Vitale met earlier than 1993 when Vitale worked in Hollywood as an independent movie producer after attending film school at the University of California Los Angeles. He had written a screenplay about one of his cases and was shopping it around. Mutual friends brought the two together. According to Horowitz, "she was interested in reading my script," he remembered. "But once I met her I fell completely in love and no longer cared about the script." ^[1] This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ...

Vitale was a single mom raising a 15-year-old daughter and an 18-year-old son. The two began dating long distance. They were married in 1994 on a rainy day in November. ^[2] Vitale moved to the Bay Area with her daughter, Marisa, and took a job working for Pacific Bell. She eventually became an executive at Informix. When the company was sold, Vitale took her severance pay and began working in Horowitz's law firm maintaining databases. Pacific Bell logo Pacific Bell was a telephone company which provided service in the state of California. ... Informix is a family of relational database management system products from IBM, acquired in 2001 from a company (also called Informix or Informix Software) which dates its origins back to 1980. ...

June 2007: Daniel Horowitz married Valerie Northrup. Northrup was excused as a juror from the Susan Polk trial in October of 2005.

Wife's murder

On October 15, 2005 he found his wife dead at the mobile home where the couple was living while their house was being built nearby. At the time, Horowitz was defending Susan Polk in her murder trial.^[3] Vitale and Horowitz had been married nearly 11 years and were building their dream home for the past two years in Lafayette in Contra Costa County, California. Medical examiners have concluded that Vitale died from blunt trauma to the head. When contacted via cell phone by a Bay Area newspaper, Horowitz said, "I can't talk, I can't. It's beyond words." ^[4] is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Susan Mae Polk (born Susan Bolling in 1958) was a housewife and mother of three who ultimately admitted to, and was convicted of murdering her husband, Dr. Frank Felix Polk. ... Lafayette, LaFayette, or La Fayette may refer to: // Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (Marquis de Lafayette), French general and revolutionary (sometimes referred to as the Marquis de la Fayette) Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette (Madame de Lafayette), French author Elliston-Lafayette, Virginia La... Contra Costa County is a suburban county in Californias San Francisco Bay Area. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... In medical terminology, blunt trauma, blunt injury, non-penetrating trauma or blunt force trauma refers to a type of physical trauma caused to a bodypart, either by impact, injury or physical attack; the latter usually being referred to as blunt force trauma. ...

On October 20, 2005 police arrested a 16-year-old boy from Lafayette, California, Scott Dyleski, in connection to the crime. is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lafayette is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. ... A compilation of three photos of Scott Dyleski, run on the cover of the San Francisco Chronicle. ...

Dyleski was convicted of killing Pamela Vitale on August 28, 2006. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on 26 September 2006. ^[5] is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Trivia

Although a staunch liberal, Horowitz is a very close friend of conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage. Michael Savage is the pseudonym of Michael Alan Weiner (born March 31, 1942), a controversial[1] American conservative talk radio host, author, and political pundit. ...

References

1. ^ "I just wanted to grow old with her" Famed lawyer talks of his wife, who was killed at site of their dream home - San Francisco Chronicle, 10/17/05
2. ^ Vitale missed by MB friends - Manhattan Beach News, 2005
3. ^ Court TV host Catherine Crier (February 20, 2007). Final Analysis: The Untold Story of the Susan Polk Murder Trial. ISBN 006113452X. 
4. ^ Wife of attorney found dead: Homicide feared - San Francisco Chronicle, 10/16/05
5. ^ Teen Gets Life Without Parole for Vitale Slaying - MSNBC.com, 9.26.2006

Catherine Crier (born November 6, 1954 in Dallas, Texas) is an American television anchor for the Court TV program, Catherine Crier Live, a daily show that deals legal news stories. ...

External links

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