Isn't Specter the guy that defended the liberal Earth day guy (cannot recall his name- was it Ira Hoffman?) that murdered his girlfriend and hid her body in a suitcase? I may have this confused, but I was thinking he was his lawyer- I don't think the murderer ever got brought to justice!!
The popular murderer is named Ira Reinhorn, and, yes, the popular Specter was Reinhorn's attorney. It's kind of like the unpopular John Adams defending the unpopular British soldiers who killed five colonists in the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. It's a dirty job, the popular Pennsylvanian might say, but somebody has to do it!