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Judges and Judiciary

May 3, 2008

Plan Aims to Protect the Innocent

“Putting an innocent person in jail is the legal equivalent of a plane crash,” said attorney Allen R. Bloom, whose client Cynthia Sommer was recently released from jail after medical tests raised a reasonable doubt that she had poisoned her husband. Bloom wants to prevent those kinds of errors.

By Pat Broderick
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 2

      SAN DIEGO - Defense attorney Allen R. Bloom is demanding answers.
      Two weeks ago, his client, Cynthia Sommer, was released from jail - and spared from what could have been a life behind bars - after new testing raised a reasonable doubt that she had poisoned her husband.
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