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Joel Steinberg (Joel Barnet Steinberg) was born on 25 May, 1941 in United States, is an American lawyer convicted of manslaughter. Discover Joel Steinberg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Joel Barnet Steinberg
Occupation Criminal defense attorney (formerly)
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 25 May, 1941
Birthday 25 May
Birthplace N/A
Nationality United States

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1941

Joel Barnet Steinberg (born May 25, 1941) is a disbarred New York City criminal defense attorney who attracted international media attention when he was accused of rape and murder, and was convicted of manslaughter, in the November 1, 1987, beating and subsequent death of a six-year-old girl, Elizabeth ("Lisa") Launders, whom he and his live-in partner, Hedda Nussbaum, had illegally adopted.

Joel Steinberg was raised in the Bronx and Yonkers, New York in a Jewish family.

1962

After graduating from Fordham University in 1962, he attended New York University Law School, but was dropped in 1964, and joined the U.S. Air Force in the following year.

Following his military career, he returned to law school, and was admitted to the bar in New York.

Due to the ongoing Vietnam War, lawyers whose studies were interrupted by conscription were exempted from the bar exam requirement, if they met certain requirements.

1987

Steinberg was under the influence of crack cocaine when he hit Lisa on the head on November 1, 1987.

After the attack, he left the apartment to party with friends; Nussbaum eventually dialed 9-1-1.

After police arrived at the scene, Lisa was transported from the apartment to Saint Vincent's Hospital.

The child remained in the hospital for three days, and died after being removed from life support.

In addition to Steinberg's deadly assault of Lisa, Mitchell and Nussbaum both showed signs of physical abuse at his hands.

In exchange for testifying against Steinberg, Nussbaum was not prosecuted for events related to Lisa's death.

Nussbaum was alone in the apartment with an unconscious and bleeding Lisa for over ten hours without seeking any medical attention for the girl.

At Steinberg's twelve-week trial, his defense argued that Nussbaum's extensive injuries resulted from a consensual sadomasochistic relationship between the two defendants.

Her attorneys claimed that Nussbaum's decision to stay with Steinberg, even though she was a victim of domestic violence, was a sign of battered woman syndrome.

In New York State at that time, first-degree murder applied only to those who killed police officers or had committed murder while already serving a sentence for a previous murder.

The jury was unable to convict Steinberg on the more serious charge of second-degree murder, but it did convict him of the lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter.

Judge Harold Rothwax subsequently sentenced Steinberg to the maximum penalty then available for that charge: 8 to 25 years in state prison.

On two occasions, Steinberg was denied discretionary parole, mainly because he never expressed remorse for the killing.

2004

However, on June 30, 2004, he was paroled under the state's "good time" law, which mandated the release of inmates who exhibited good behavior while incarcerated after having served two-thirds or more of the maximum possible sentence.

New York State has since increased this ratio to six-sevenths of the maximum term for persons convicted of violent felonies.

Steinberg had spent most of his imprisonment at New York State's supermax prison, the Southport Correctional Facility, presumably to prevent him from being attacked by other inmates.

After his release, Steinberg moved to Harlem, where he took up work in the construction industry.

2006

As of 2006, he maintained his innocence.

Mitchell was reunited with his biological mother, Nicole Bridget Smigiel.

2007

On January 16, 2007, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division (New York's intermediate appellate court) upheld a $15 million award against Steinberg to Michele Launders, Lisa's birth mother.

In its opinion, the court rejected the position that Steinberg, who acted as his own attorney, put forth:

2014

Steinberg shared a Greenwich Village, Manhattan apartment at 14 West 10th St. with Lisa, Mitchell (a younger child, also illegally adopted), and his live-in partner, Hedda Nussbaum.

Steinberg had reportedly been hired by a single mother named Michele Launders to locate a suitable adoptive family for Lisa, but he instead took the child home and raised her with Nussbaum.

He never filed formal adoption papers, and the child was not legally adopted.