Education

B.A. University of Notre Dame
J.D. Washington and Lee University School of Law

Biography

Greg Wiercioch joined the Frank J. Remington Center in 2012. Since 2014, he has been a supervising attorney with Legal Assistance to Incarcerated People.

Before coming to the University of Wisconsin, Greg represented persons on death row in Texas in state and federal post-conviction proceedings. In 1995, he co-founded Texas Defender Service, a nonprofit law firm dedicated to improving the quality of capital representation in Texas. Greg has represented a number of severely mentally ill persons on death row and is particularly interested in issues involving competency to stand trial, competency to waive collateral review, and competency to be executed. He successfully argued Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 930 (2007), in the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the Fifth Circuit's standard for determining competency was unconstitutional because it did not consider whether the person on death row had a rational understanding of the reason for their execution. Greg has spoken at a number of national conferences about representing mentally ill persons on death row. He continues to represent people on death row.

Greg received his B.A. in Government from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the Law Review. After graduating, he clerked for Judge Jerry Buchmeyer at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.