biography
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Spence, Gerry
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popular name of Gerald Leonard Spence
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Lawyer and writer, born in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. An honours graduate from the University of Wyoming Law School (1952), he was a county prosecuting attorney in Wyoming (1954–62) and then a partner in various Wyoming law firms (1962–78) before forming Spence, Moriarty & Schuster in Jackson, WY (1978). During his early years in private practice he concentrated on representing insurance companies, but eventually he took to representing people in a variety of personal liability or criminal cases. Among his more publicized cases that involved large settlements for his clients were the verdict against Kerr-McGee in the Karen Silkwood case on behalf of her children, and a verdict against McDonald's on behalf of a family-owned ice-cream company. Among his more celebrated defence cases were the acquittal for Imelda Marcos and the acquittal for Randy Weaver in the Idaho stand-off case where a federal agent was killed. He did not lose a jury case after 1969, and lectured at law schools and conducted seminars for various legal organizations around the USA. His several books include With Justice for None (1989), From Freedom to Slavery, The Rebirth of Tyranny in America (1993), and his autobiography, Gunning for Justice (1982). |
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