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News in Brief
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2002
by Roger Hummel
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2002, page 1
Alaska: On April 11, 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the head prosecutor in the state attorney general's office, resigned after being judicially admonished for pursuing felony charges against a public defender who crashed his car into a light pole. Anchorage prosecutors had agreed to a misdemeanor plea bargain with Wally Tetlow, the ...
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