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Padilla Defense Turns Attorney’s Life Upside Down


— August 26, 2003

What if you were a solo criminal defense lawyer when suddenly the President of the United States decided that one of your small-time clients was an “enemy combatant”? For one thing, your life would be forever changed, as was New York lawyer Donna R. Newman’s when it happened to her on June 9, 2002. Read her interesting story here from the New York Law Journal.


What if you were a solo criminal defense lawyer when suddenly the President of the United States decided that one of your small-time clients was an “enemy combatant”? For one thing, your life would be forever changed, as was New York lawyer Donna R. Newman’s when it happened to her on June 9, 2002. Read her interesting story here from the New York Law Journal.

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