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Published: 01/11/11

Judy Clarke: Jared Loughner's 'Amazing' Attorney

By  Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily
Judy Clarke: Jared Loughner's 'Amazing' Attorney

Judy 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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Published: 01/10/11

Judy Clarke, Who Defended the 'Unabomber,' Will Represent Jared Lee Loughner

By  Steven Hoffer - AOL News
Judy Clarke, Who Defended the 'Unabomber,' Will Represent Jared Lee Loughner

Judy Clarke, the attorney who represented "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski, will defend Jared Lee Loughner, the young man authorities say tried to fatally shoot Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Loughner, 22, the college dropout who went on a shooting rampage Saturday morning in Tuscon, Ariz., has been charged with five federal counts, including the attempted assassination of a member of Congress. Additional charges are expected. The suspect has an experienced defender of high-profile criminals in Clarke, appointed to the case by the Federal Public Defender's Office in Phoenix. Currently in ...

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Published: 12/1/10

Women Who Kill . . . or Rather, Women Who Don't

By  Donna Trussell - Politics Daily
Women Who Kill . . . or Rather, Women Who Don't

Two "femme fatales" were in the news last week. Laurie Bembenek, accused killer turned folk hero ("Run, Bambi, Run") died of liver cancer at the age of 52 in Portland, Ore. A former Playboy bunny and a Milwaukee police officer, Bembenek was convicted of the 1981 murder of her husband's ex-wife. She escaped from prison in 1990 and fled to Canada. She was recaptured and, after a new trial, was sentenced to time served and set free. To the end, she proclaimed her innocence. On the other side of the world, in Italy, former Seattle college student Amanda Knox recently appealed her murder ...

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Published: 10/14/10

'Balloon Boy' Anniversary: Lesson Learned?

By  Deborah Hastings - AOL News
'Balloon Boy' Anniversary: Lesson Learned?

(Oct. 14) -- Rewind to one year ago: We watched, transfixed, as a giant silver balloon hurtled across the sky, chased by aircraft and vehicles on the ground. Inside was an undoubtedly terrified 6-year-old boy. The nation held its breath. And then exhaled in a giant sigh of disgust as it slowly became clear the whole episode was a giant hoax, perpetrated by the boy's parents, who'd launched an unmanned -- or un-boyed in this case -- Mylar bag toward Denver International Airport and then called authorities. And the media. With the first anniversary Friday of that cringe-inducing ...

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Published: 09/17/10

Acid Attack Hoax Stirs Concerns Over Racial Profiling

By  Mara Gay - AOL News
Acid Attack Hoax Stirs Concerns Over Racial Profiling

(Sept. 17) -- For weeks, police in Vancouver, Wash., searched for the black woman who walked up to Bethany Storro and threw acid in the white woman's face, causing second-degree burns and sending her reeling in pain. Except, there was no attacker. Storro, who told reporters she could hear the acid "bubbling and sizzling" on her skin, now admits that she lied about the attack and caused the disfiguring burns herself. Now, some are asking whether the story is another case of racial profiling in which the media is all too willing to accept the idea of an African-American as a ...

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Published: 08/20/10

Hundreds Gather for Funeral of Duley Toddlers

By  David Knowles - AOL News
Hundreds Gather for Funeral of Duley Toddlers

(Aug. 20) -- Sometimes, the echoes of history are all too familiar. Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral today of two young boys who were allegedly suffocated in a hotel room by their own mother, strapped into the family car and sent plunging into Edisto River in Orangeburg County, S.C. Filing past two small open coffins today, members of the community paid their respects to 18-month-old Ja'van T. Duley and his 2-year-old brother, Devean, at St. Paul Baptist Church in Orangeburg, The State newspaper reported. Inside their caskets, the boys were dressed in white tuxedos and held toy ...

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Published: 08/17/10

Sheriff: SC Mom 'Wanted to Get Rid of Her Children'

By  Lisa Flam - AOL News
Sheriff: SC Mom 'Wanted to Get Rid of Her Children'

(Aug. 17) -- The mother of two toddlers found dead in their submerged car has confessed to suffocating them before she drove her car into a South Carolina river, the sheriff said today. Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams told reporters that Shaquan Duley admitted she staged the accident. Duley, who now faces murder charges, said she became distraught after fighting with her mother, according to Williams. She suffocated her children at a motel by putting her hand over their mouths, then strapped them into their car seats and drove into the North Edisto River in Orangeburg, the sheriff ...

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