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Patrick Leahy: “Your proposal was not to have counsel in every single case but where there were special legal issues raised.”

On the recordJuly 30, 2013
Your proposal was not to have counsel in every single case but where there were special legal issues raised.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy summarizes Judge Carr's proposal regarding counsel in legal cases.

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