Mr. Flood joined the firm of Sheldon & Flood in 2009. Previously he was the Capital Defender for Northern Virginia. Mr. Flood’s practice focuses on serious felony cases at trial, appeal, and in post conviction, including death penalty cases. Following his clerkship for the Hon. Joseph W. Hatchet, of the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, Mr. Flood began representing death row inmates in Alabama. Subsequently, Mr. Flood worked for ten years as a trial lawyer defending individuals charged with capital crimes in New York.Since 2005, when New York abolished the death penalty, Mr. Flood has used his innovative approach to litigation to successfully represent more than a dozen people facing the death penalty in Virginia.
Mr. Flood is a nationally recognized death penalty expert and consulting attorney for the Mexican government through the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program. He is co-author of the treatise, “
Trial of Capital Murder Cases in Virginia,” VaCLE 2017.
