[Gamecock]

Judy Clarke: With attorney David Bruck, Clarke helped convince jurors that Smith was a fragile victim of sexual abuse who should not be executed. Clarke went on to spare the Unabomber from the death penalty, too, though Ted Kaczynski never forgave her for trying to make him look insane. More recently, she did not manage to save Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the death penalty. She also represented Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and Jared Loughner, who tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others.

Quite the resume. </sarc>

[umgud]

I don’t need to hear her story, though many will. I have no sympathy for her.

[PROCON]

IIRC, this was the 1st prominent case where when we found out she had lied, all future suspicious children's deaths were handled with one or both parents being first under suspicion.

What an unthinkable crime. Killing your own children.

[Boogieman]

“Ted Kaczynski never forgave her for trying to make him look insane”

She may have been trying, but Ted succeeded.