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Maricopa County Special Prosecutor Padded Résumé, Law Partner Quits
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2008
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2008, page 26
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Attorney Misconduct,
Prosecutors,
False Arrest.
Location:
Arizona.
Regular readers of PLN are familiar with Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, who bills himself as “America’s Toughest Sheriff.” [See, e.g., PLN, March 2007, p.14]. Dennis Wilenchik, a private attorney known as “Arpaio’s Bulldog,” was hired as a special prosecutor by Maricopa County Attorney Andrew …
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