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Law Practice

Mar. 29, 2003

Two Men Die In Shooting at Legal Offices

LOS ANGELES -Prominent Beverly Hills criminal defense attorney Gerald V. Scotti fatally shot his longtime paralegal, then turned the gun on himself in a dispute over money Wednesday inside the oceanfront law offices of another well-known criminal defense lawyer, police said Thursday.

By Anne La Jeunesse and David Houston
Daily Journal Staff Writers
        LOS ANGELES -Prominent Beverly Hills criminal defense attorney Gerald V. Scotti fatally shot his longtime paralegal, then turned the gun on himself in a dispute over money Wednesday inside the oceanfront law offices of another well-known criminal defense lawyer, police said Thursd...

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