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Osama's Day In Court.(Brief Article)
In 1995, while preparing his trial defense for Timothy McVeigh, lead counsel Stephen Jones tried to come up with alternative suspects. Osama bin Laden was one, prompting Jones to joke, "Just imagine how difficult it would be for us if the government went after him."
It could happen, if U.S. forces manage to locate him and bring him back alive for criminal prosecution. But would anyone represent bin Laden? "It might be a career-breaker," says attorney Jack Litman. "A lawyer who took that case--even the mob would shun him," says Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University.
Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor who's ...
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