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Law Practice

Apr. 21, 2006

Fortunes Fell After City Hall Assassination

SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco District Attorney Joe Freitas, whose civic career crashed after a jury convicted political assassin Dan White of manslaughter rather than murder, died Wednesday in Paris. He was 66.

By Dennis J. Opatrny
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      Former San Francisco District Attorney Joe Freitas, whose civic career crashed after a jury convicted political assassin Dan White of manslaughter rather than murder, died Wednesday in Paris. He was 66.
      Freitas suffered from lung cancer and was being treated in a Paris hospital. He moved to the French capital several ...

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