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By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyJudy Clarke is the Forrest Gump of criminal defense attorneys. Otherwise unassuming, even shy, she seems to turn up, front and center, for many of the cases we'll never forget. She counseled Ted Kaczynski 13 years ago this month when the Unabomber was toying with the government in advance of his guilty plea. She helped an unrepentant Eric Robert Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber, avoid a death sentence. She was present and accountable during the chaotic trial of Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her two small children in a car in a lake. She even represented Zacarias ...
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By Allan Lengel - AOL News(Aug. 4) -- As a federal judge in southern Texas for some 18 years, Samuel Kent sent folks off to prison. Now he's behind bars himself, being subjected to what his attorney describes as a Kafkaesque nightmare of "cruel and abusive treatment." Kent, 61, is serving a 33-month sentence for obstruction of justice after he was caught lying about allegations involving groping and sexual assault of two female court employees. Pat Sullivan, AP Former U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent leaves the federal courthouse in Houston on Feb. 23, 2009, after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in exchange ...
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