Fredric I. Green

Education

Adjunct Professor Fredric I. Green is a Second Deputy District Attorney and the Chief of the Special Prosecutions Division of the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office. In that capacity, he supervises the investigation and prosecution of all cases of domestic violence, child abuse, sex crimes, human trafficking, and elder abuse in Westchester County.

Prior to his current assignment which began in January 2015, Professor Green was the longtime Chief of the Sex Crimes Bureau where he served as Chief for 14 years. He has served in the administration of the past 6 District Attorney’s in Westchester, and currently serves in the administration of current District Attorney Mimi Rocah.

Since joining the D.A.’s Office in 1987, Professor Green has tried numerous cases involving rape and other sexual assaults of adults and children, sexual assault homicide cases, child abuse and domestic violence homicides, non-sexual assault homicides, child physical abuse cases, CODIS cases and cold cases, cases of domestic violence and many other types of crime not involving special victims. Professor Green has also trained police officers, detectives, judges, nurses, prosecutors, court staff, rape crisis hotline workers, victim’s advocates, educators and probation officers on behalf of the District Attorney’s Office in the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases and on the intricacies of sexual assault law, as well as on domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse and human trafficking laws and issues, trial techniques, Megan’s Law, and New York’s civil confinement law, the Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act.

Since 2010, he has been an Adjunct Law Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University where he teaches an advanced upper-level seminar in criminal law focusing on sexual assault law. Professor Green previously served as an Adjunct Professor at Purchase College at the State University of New York where for 20 years, he taught classes he created in the areas of sexual assault law and the criminal justice system. He is also a regular lecturer for various professional organizations and has also lectured at many Westchester high schools and colleges and at countless civic, PTA and other community organizations throughout Westchester County.

Professor Green is a member of a variety of working groups active in the fields of child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse and human trafficking. In 2020, he was invited to participate as a member of the Governor’s Mid-Hudson Domestic Violence Regional Council and was thereafter named to a leadership position as a co-chair of the regional team. And, in 2021, Professor Green was appointed to the New York State Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team where he serves as the sole state court prosecutor member on that team. In 2022, he was assigned to represent the District Attorney’s Office on the Westchester Children’s Cabinet. He is co-chair of the Westchester Anti-Trafficking Task Force.

Mr. Green is a contributing author/editor to the New York Prosecutor’s Training Institute’s Sexual Assault Prosecution Manual, 2014 edition, and is the author or co-author of several articles regarding vulnerable victims and the criminal justice system.

Honors & Awards:

Champion Award, New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, 2018
James Cannon Award, for dedication and leadership in the field of domestic violence, Westchester County Department of Probation and Westchester County Office for Women, 2018