Fredric I. Green

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, child sexual abuse material and elder abuse in Westchester County.

Prior to his current assignment which began in January 2015, Adjunct 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 7 District Attorney’s in Westchester, and currently serves in the administration of current District Attorney Susan Cacace.

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. Prior to the elimination of the statute of limitations in certain sexual assault cases, he successfully prosecuted the first and only case where the Westchester County DA’s Office sought an indictment of a DNA profile alone- an indictment that would be matched to a known offender who raped two women, years later. During his 38-year career, he has also presented hundreds of cases to the Grand Jury, argued before the Appellate Division and responded to numerous crime scenes. Professor Green has been an advocate for countless victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, elder abuse and child abuse, victims and their survivors involving many homicides, and victims of other violent crimes.

Professor Green has 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 throughout Westchester County and New York State in the investigation and prosecution of special victims cases including the intricacies of sexual assault cases, domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse and human trafficking laws and issues, trial techniques, Megan’s Law, rules of evidence, and New York’s civil confinement law, the Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act. He is a regular lecturer for more than two decades at the Westchester County Police Academy and for many years at the New York State Prosecutors Training Institute. He has also lectured at the New York State Judicial Training Institute, the New York County District Attorney’s Office, Victim’s Assistance Services, the Westchester County Department of Probation, New York University Medical Center, Westchester Medical Center, the Westchester Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Westchester County, White Plains and New Rochelle Bar Associations, the Westchester Hispanic Coalition and on behalf of the New York State Office of Court Administration, the Westchester County Office for Women and the Pace Women’s Justice Center on issues related to the prosecution of all types of special victims cases. Professor Green has also spoken before the New York State Assembly Sex Offender Task Force, the Editorial Board of the Journal News, the New York State Chiefs of Police Association, the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services Public Safety Symposium and for the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. He was a member of the planning committees that helped establish both a special domestic violence part in Westchester as well as the creation of the then pilot Sex Offense Court.

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. He 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 has also lectured at many Westchester high schools and colleges (Iona, Pace, Mercy, Manhattanville, Monroe, the College of Westchester and Purchase), Pace Law School 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 sexual assault law, child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse and human trafficking. He is a member and one of the leaders of the Westchester Child Fatality Review Team, the Westchester Child Advocacy Center Planning Committee, and the Westchester County Multi-Disciplinary Team for Child Abuse.

He is also a member of the Westchester County Domestic Violence High Risk Team (formerly the Northern Westchester Risk Reduction Team) – an initiative to closely examine high risk cases of domestic violence- the first of its kind in Westchester County and one of only a few in New York State. In that role, he has participated in training throughout New York State for courts, law enforcement, prosecutors and advocacy agencies on the importance and methodology of assessing risk in cases of domestic violence. He is a member of the Westchester Domestic Violence Council (appointed by the County Executive and approved by the County Board of Legislators).

Professor Green is a member of the Westchester County Elder Abuse Multi-Disciplinary Team. In 2016, he was appointed by the Honorable Deborah Kaplan, currently the Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for New York City, to serve as a member of the New York State Elder Justice Working Group, a consortium of professionals working in the elder abuse field coordinated by Judge Kaplan and the New York State Courts.

He is co-chair of the Westchester County Anti Trafficking Task Force. He is the longest serving member of the Subcommittee on Sexual Assault and Family Violence of the New York State District Attorney’s Association, and served on the former Westchester Medical Center Victim Informed Care and Trauma Recovery Task Force. He previously served on the One Love Foundation Coordinated Community Response Team, the steering committee of the Purchase College Safety Task Force (part of the State University of New York), and the Board of Directors of the Make A Wish Foundation of the Hudson Valley.

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.

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 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.

In 2018, Professor Green was recognized by the New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, with their Champion Award.

In 2018, he was also recognized by the Westchester County Department of Probation and the Westchester County Office for Women, with the 2018 James Cannon Award for his dedication and leadership in the field of domestic violence.

He is a graduate of the Horace Mann School, Clark University and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.

• BA, Clark University
• JD, Elisabeth Haub School of Law

• Advanced Issues in Criminal Law: Sex Crimes LAW 606A

• 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

Criminal Justice, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, Elder Abuse, Human Trafficking