David Feige

He is the author of the memoir, Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice,[1] and co-creator of the TNT legal drama Raising the Bar,[2] both of which center on the life of the public defender.

He is also the co-founder (along with his wife Robin Steinberg) and board chair of The Bronx Freedom Fund, a charitable bail organization in New York State.

In March 2001, he filed the first motion for a double-blind sequential line up[10] in People v. Leo Franco, spawning a series of legal challenges to eyewitness identification procedures around the country.

[citation needed] Feige is the author of the 2006 book Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice, which recounts his experiences as a public defender in The Bronx, New York City.

Feige is co-creator with Steven Bochco (who had read Indefensible)[7] of the TV series, Raising the Bar, which debuted on TNT September 1, 2008 to the highest ratings for a pilot episode in the history of ad-supported cable television.