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Law Practice

Jan. 25, 2007

Putting a Widow's Murder Trial on a Fast Track

Florida lawyer Robert "Speedy" Udell says moving a trial forward gives him a courtroom edge, which may explain the hasty pace he's set in his defense of a widow accused of poisoning her Marine husband to profit off of his death benefit.

By Claude Walbert
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN DIEGO - Florida lawyer Robert G. "Speedy" Udell walks fast and talks fast, and he gets to the heart of a case fast.
      He is bringing that speed to the case of a widow accused of poisoning her Marine husband, then spending his insurance money on high living and breast implants.
      His client, Cynthia A. Som...

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