David Hennessy will review the proper steps to obtain a search warrant, valid exceptions to the rule, and the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine among other legal concepts to ensure that your client’s constitutional rights are upheld when search warrants are obtained and executed.
David Hennessy
David R. Hennessy was born and raised in Evansville, Indiana. He attended Memorial High School and continued under the tutelage of the Brothers of Holy Cross when matriculating to the University of Notre Dame in 1972, the first year they admitted women.
Mr. Hennessy graduated from Notre Dame in 1976 with a BBA in Marketing and went to work for Arvin Industries out of Columbus, Indiana, in their Detroit sales office with the goal of obtaining sufficient funds to attend law school. He attended IU- Law-Indy, now McKinney School of Law, from 1979-1982. In 1982 he borrowed $3000 on his 1978 Pinto to open a law practice. He has been a sole practitioner ever since, concentrating his practice in criminal defense, both trial and appellate work.
Mr. Hennessy has served on the Board of Directors of the Indiana Public Defender Council since 1984 with four terms as chairman. He served six years on the Board of the Marion County Public Defender Agency and is a past president of the Notre Dame Club of Indianapolis. Mr. Hennessy has been named a Super Lawyer by Indianapolis Monthly, a Top 100 Trial Lawyer by The National Trial Lawyers and honored by Strathmore’s Who’s Who. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation and was a member of the American Inn of Courts. He has served on the board for his homeowners association and the board for the Northeast Youth Soccer League. Before his two daughters were grown Mr. Hennessy was active in his parish as a lector, Eucharistic minister and member of the Youth Commission.
He has taught at many seminars for IPDC and ICLEF and mentored young lawyers.