Bill Sheaffer joined WFTV in 2008 as a professional legal analyst and criminal trials expert.

He is board certified by both the Florida Bar Association and the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Criminal Trials Expert. Sheaffer is recognized with an AV rating in Martindale Hubbell’s Register of Preeminent Lawyers.

Before going into private practice, Sheaffer served as a trial division felony prosecutor for the Orange/Osceola State Attorney’s Office.

Sheaffer served four years in the United States Navy as a corpsman. He graduated cum laude from the University of Central Florida and later Nova Southeastern Law School.

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