Tom Sneddon
Thomas William Sneddon, Jr. (born May 26, 1941 in Los Angeles , California - † November 1, 2014 in Santa Barbara , California) was an American lawyer. He was the Santa Barbara District Attorney .
Life
Tom Sneddon graduated in 1963, the University of Notre Dame as a bachelor and received after further studies at the University of California, Los Angeles , a degree in law . He served in the United States Army from 1967 to 1969 . He began his legal practice in 1969 with the Santa Barbara District Attorney's Office . He was first elected District attorney in 1983 and served until 2007.
Because of his relentlessness, Sneddon was nicknamed Mad Dog in his early career . One of the particularly high-profile trials of Sneddon was the trials in which he represented the charges against Michael Jackson . On the Michael Jackson double album HIStory - Past, Present and Future Book I , released on June 16, 1995 by Sony Music, Michael Jackson deals with the scandal of 1993 in some songs. The title "DS" published on the double album stands for Dom Sheldon with Michael Jackson clearly audible singing "Tom Sneddon" and not Dom Sheldon. The song is a settlement with the prosecutor, who both in 1993 and 2003 to 2005 each led a case against Jackson. Michael Jackson was acquitted of all charges in these two highly regarded and theatrically commented and staged by the media proceedings.
On November 1, 2014, Sneddon died of complications from cancer in the presence of his family at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital , a private teaching hospital in Santa Barbara. Sneddon was married and left behind his wife Pamela nine children and six grandchildren.
Web links
- A biography on the Santa Barbara County website
- Tom Sneddon in nndb (English)
- FAZ - "Eager Investigator: Public Prosecutor Tom Sneddon"
- Netzeitung.de - "Portrait: Public Prosecutor Tom Sneddon" ( Memento from March 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Portrait on the website of the National District Attorneys Association (ndaa.org) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Portrait: "Mad Dog" Tom Sneddon . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 21, 2003, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 24, 2016]).
- ↑ Michael Jackson Prosecutor Tom Sneddon Dies of Cancer at Age 73 , accessed November 2, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sneddon, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sneddon, Thomas William Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer, Santa Barbara District Attorney |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 2014 |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara , California |