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Hillary's Career in Criminal Defense

By Smith Law Offices,

I alone among my defense bar colleagues am a Republican and have occasionally toyed with the idea of running for higher office.  Obviously some opposition researcher toyed with the idea of making this case of Hillary's a potential point of attack.  I am glad to see that they are not taking that tack in this story. From Newsday.com:For Clinton, her time in Arkansas is a key component of the argument that her three decades of public service have prepared her to be president on Day One.. . . But there is a little-known episode Clinton doesn't mention in her standard campaign speech in which those two principles collided. In 1975, a 27-year-old Hillary Rodham, acting as a court-appointed attorney, attacked the credibility of a 12-year-old girl in mounting an aggressive defense for an indigent client accused of rape in Arkansas - using her child development background to help the defendant...continue to full post

Full post as published by SexCrimeDefender on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).