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Law Practice

Apr. 2, 2010

New Trial for Death Row Inmate

Attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips succeeded Tuesday in vacating the conviction of an Alabama inmate who had been on death row since 2003.

By Rebecca U. Cho

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Los Angeles-based attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips succeeded Tuesday in vacating the conviction of an Alabama inmate who had been on death row since 2003. Emanuel Aaron Gissendanner Jr., who has been on death row for murder and imprisoned since 2001, was granted a new trial. Michael E. Baumann, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis, and Be...

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