STEPHANIE PAGE is one of three senior trial counsel with the Public Defender Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Boston. After graduating from Northeastern University School of Law in 1978, Ms. Page joined CPCS (formerly the Massachusetts Defenders Committee) as a public defender. She has been a member of the CPCS murder team since 1985. From 1988 to October 1997, in addition to being a trial lawyer, Ms. Page was the first forensic services director for CPCS. In 1989 she was the first recipient of the Massachusetts Bar Association Defender Award. In 1996 Ms. Page was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, of which she is currently a fellow. In 1997 she was awarded the Edward J. Duggan Public Defender Award by CPCS. In 2004 she was awarded the Women's Bar Association Lelia J. Robinson Award. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly "Women of Justice" Award. Ms. Page is a frequent coordinator, lecturer, and writer for MCLE and other groups throughout the legal community. In addition to her work on this book, she is the editor and a coauthor of Trying Sex Offense Cases in Massachusetts (MCLE, Inc. 2nd ed. 2009) and a coeditor and coauthor of Trying Murder and Other Homicide Cases in Massachusetts (MCLE, Inc. 2004). Ms. Page is currently chair of MCLE's Criminal Law Curriculum Advisory Committee, and has been vice chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section council. She was one of three members of the defense team in the death penalty case of United States v. Gary Sampson and was cocounsel in the Neil Entwistle case. She won an acquittal for Barbara Asher in the so-called dominatrix manslaughter false confession case. (September 2010)