Metropolitan State University of Denver

Dr G Anthony Wolusky

Personal Biography Statement

Let me introduce myself. I am Dr. Tony Wolusky and I enjoy teaching criminal justice classes for Metro State a great deal. I have 20 years legal experience as a deputy district attorney, defense attorney, advisor to American military leaders in the U.S. and overseas, and as a military judge advocate.

I have taught Criminal Procedure, Substantive Criminal Law, Juvenile Law, Constitutional Law, and other courses at Metro State.

Educational Biography

Along with my JD from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, I have an MEd (Counseling), an MA (International Relations) and I am working on my Ph.D. in Online Education.

I am licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.

Personal

I was raised in Boston, but left there in 1976 to join the Air Force and see the world. After graduating from the Air Force Academy, I served as an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Launch Officer during the height of the Cold War, then taught political science and military law at St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont, as an AFROTC instructor. I then elected to go into the Reserves as an intelligence officer while attending law school in San Francisco. I became a Deputy DA in San Bernardino, California, after law school, but decided to go back into the active duty Air Force as a JAG and went to Germany.

Personal

Over the next 14 years as a JAG (it really is just like the TV show, not), I served as a prosecutor as well as a defense attorney, ultimately racking up 35 trials for offenses up to premeditated murder. I?ve served across the US, as well as in Germany, Saudi Arabia, Korea and Bosnia, but am glad to be back in Colorado. I was lucky to return to the Air Force Academy as an Associate Professor of Law and later as a senior legal advisor to the Superintendent. I retired from active duty in 2004 and am very glad to have this chance to share my experiences in the trenches of criminal law with all of you.

I am also a trail runner and have run the Pikes Peak Ascent 3 years in a row.

Professional Affiliations

Colorado Association of Criminal Justice Educators

International Bar Association Human Rights Institute

Air Force Association

International Political Science Association

National District Attorneys Association

International Society for Military Law and the Law of War

Research Areas/Interests

Basic Air Campaign Planning, The JAG Warrior, Vol. V, Issue 1, Autumn 2002.

Historical Perspectives on Operational Environment Research and Objective Determination in Air Campaign Planning, The Air and Space Power Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 3, Fall 2002, article also chosen as Air War College course material, 14th edition, Lessons 25-29, ?Warfighting.

Death and the Airman: Handling the Overseas Accidental Fatality of a Local National by U.S. Military Personnel, The JAG Warrior, Vol. IV, Issue 1, Washington, DC, Autumn 2001.

Combat Crime: Rules of Engagement in Military Courts-Martial, The Military Law and Law of War Review, Brussels, Belgium, Vol. XXXVIII, 2000.

Law for Air Force Officers, Chap 21, Law of Armed Conflict, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1997.

Prosecuting War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia, USAFA Journal of Legal Studies, 1996.

Courses Taught

CJC-1010,CJC-1450,CJC-2000,CJC-2050,CJC-2100,CJC-2140,CJC-3110,CJC-3130
,CJC-3140,CJC-3200