Veteran Vanderbilt University School of Law professor Donald J. Hall, author of the nationally used casebook Criminal Procedure: The Post-Investigative Process, died Nov. 29 after a long illness. He was 69.

Hall, who devoted his entire academic career to Vanderbilt (working at the university from 1970 until he retired in 2007). He served as the law school's associate dean from 1979 to 1984. Jim Patterson and myvu.com have the story here.

SEE ALSO: Our coverage of Hall's involvement with the State Ethics Commission