Arizona Suspect’s Lawyer Defended Unabomber, Al-Qaeda Suspect
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Judy Clarke has defended some of the most infamous murders and terrorists in the U.S., from Susan Smith, who drowned her children, to “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, to the so-called 20th hijacker who didn’t make it onto the planes that struck on Sept. 11, 2001.
Though those defendants were convicted and sentenced to prison, Clarke, a former president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, has developed a reputation as an expert on asserting mental disability or defect as a defense, and has managed to keep many killers off death row.