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Law Practice

Oct. 5, 2018

Attorneys defending defendants on political fringes face personal attacks

Any attorney who signs on to defend any of the four California men charged this week with rioting in connection to last year’s Unite the Right rally may need to have a thick skin. They may receive harassing phone calls and see their face posted on flyers next to headlines like “Nazi lawyer” and “scumbag attorney.”

Any attorney who signs on to defend one of the four California men charged this week with rioting in connection to last year’s Unite the Right rally might need to have a thick skin. They could receive harassing phone calls and see their face posted on flyers next to headlines like “Nazi lawyer” and “scumbag attorney.”

Just ask Michelle L. Spaulding, who was greeted with posters outside the Sacramento court for weeks proclaiming her ...

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