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Views From The Bench On Sentencing Representation: Part 12

By Alan Ellis ( December 17, 2018, 3:48 PM EST) -- "Tell me something your client did when no one was keeping score," responded then-U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Erickson of North Dakota to a query when I interviewed him late last year. I had asked him what an attorney can do when faced with representing a client who has committed a reprehensible offense with a lengthy criminal record. "I think well of people who act out of the goodness of their hearts," he added. (Judge Erickson has since been elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.)...

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