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| Attorney who took on big tobacco faces sentencing |
| Friday, June 27, 2008 |
Attorney who took on big tobacco faces sentencing - Guardian Unlimited JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Richard ``Dickie'' Scruggs, a prominent attorney who took on tobacco, asbestos and seattle divorce attorney insurance companies, was scheduled to be sentenced Friday for his role in a high-profile judicial bribery case. Scruggs, 62, earned hundreds of Source: www.guardian.co.uk Delay of DNA tests helped guilty go free - Dallas Morning News DNA testing could have freed Patrick Leondos Waller seven years ago from a life sentence for armed robbery and seattle divorce attorney kept the real criminal in prison. But because former Dallas County District Attorney Bill Hill objected, Mr. Waller's efforts to obtain Source: www.dallasnews.com Vice chair: Attorney hired to cut costs - Green Bay Press-Gazette Brown County Board Vice Chairwoman Mary Scray said Thursday that she thinks supervisors see the financial benefits of having their own attorney. Scray said she was disappointed by county Executive Tom Hinz's decision to veto a portion of the board's Source: www.greenbaypressgazette.com AP Top News at 7:31 a.m. EDT - Newsday YONGBYON, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs. The demolition of the 60-foot-tall cooling tower at its main Source: www.newsday.com Cheney aide says he had no role in torture memo - San Francisco Gate Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser, during a combative exchange Thursday with congressional Democrats, refused to claim any responsibility for the adoption of harsh interrogation methods following the Sept. 11 attacks. David Addington, chief of Source: www.sfgate.com N.Y. Court Backs Grasso in Pay Suit - Washington Post Eliot Spitzer, then New York attorney general, initiated the case against former New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso in 2004. (By David Karp -- Bloomberg News) New York's top court yesterday upheld a lower court ruling that tossed out four Source: www.washingtonpost.com Did W help Fieger beat the rap? - Detroit Free Press Criminal defense attorney Steve Fishman has strung together some impressive wins in Detroit's federal courthouse over the last few years -- and seattle divorce attorney he thinks George W. Bush deserves some of the credit. Fishman, whose client Ven Johnson was acquitted of Source: www.freep.com
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