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Bobby Burns

Bobby Burns (died 2011) was an American divorce lawyer from New York City who represented Yusef Salaam during the 1990 Central Park jogger case. He had previously represented Sharon Salaam at her divorce, and she chose him to represent her son, despite his total inexperience at a criminal case. During the trial, he provided very few convincing arguments, instead using race as one of his arguments. He was disbarred in 2011, and he died of a heart attack shortly after.

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