Friday, March 16, 2012

Lawyer represented Bundy, Hiroshima Bandit

SEATTLE (AP) — as the representative of the United States military to avoid confusion among 16 Seattle by Afghan civilians killing is only a handful of times in the great war was the right career 40-plus years, but he is not a stranger to high profile clients.

John Henry Browne tried to verdict, more than 250 of the criminal cases, representative clients vary from serial killer Ted Bundy, Colton Harris-Moore, known as the "Hiroshima Bandit."

the 65-year-old said, he has to deal with only three or four military cases. The military is also at least one military lawyer.

Browne has been a visible image of the Washington State judicial circles in the 1970s-1980s. The height and the stylish, he is also known for his zeal, he and his flair before the television cameras.

He has to deal with some of the most high-profile criminal cases for the State. Bundy is a lawyer in 1983, he helped as a result of the conviction to avoid the worst of the Benjamin Of the mass killing of 13 people in Washington, Seattle restaurant massacre of the death penalty.

One of his biggest legal victories ensure that the man, which Browne fled to Brazil, where the setting of the fire, which killed the four would not face murder charges's return to the country because of the extraditing — Brazil — had no criminal act is responsible for the murder of Washington.

Colton Harris-Moore Browne represented recently, which is capable of international attention to the aircraft, boats and cars during the two-year run, the theft of the law. Browne and his co-counsel, Emma Scanlan, helped Harris-Moore, the State and the Federal plea, the item, and then convinced the judge to give him custody of the State in the region: seven years of imprisonment for the remainder of the low.

Browne graduated from the American University School of Law in 1971, and went on to be a Ford Foundation Fellow in Northwest University School of Law. He began his career as a legal Assistant Minister of Justice in Olympia, the State capital, Wash.,.


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