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Criminal

Dec. 5, 1998

Immigrant Gets Second Chance From Compassionate Prosecutor

Using what she characterized as a little bit of legal magic, a prosecutor has, in a manner of speaking, traveled back in time to cut a drug offender an extraordinarily rare break that might just spare him deportation and separation from his wife and two children.

By Michael D. Harris
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        Using what she characterized as a little bit of legal magic, a prosecutor has, in a manner of speaking, traveled back in time to cut a drug offender an extraordinarily rare break that might just spare him deportation and separation from his wife and two children.
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