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JERRY SPENCE NO LOSS RECORD

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Spence?s No-Loss Record Stands with Fieger AcquittalPosted Jun 2, 2008, 05:38 pm CDT By Terry Carter     Photo by John Sobczak              Geoffrey Fieger, whose confrontational style and sharp tongue are matched only by his outsized dollar awards from juries, got what amounts to the biggest verdict of his career today when a federal jury in Detroit acquitted him and a law partner of charges they made $127,000 in illegal political campaign contributions. Ultimately, one juror told the Associated Press after the verdict, the jury decided that Fieger and partner Ven Johnson did not ?knowingly and willfully? violate the law when they asked others in the law firm, including staff, to donate to the John Edwards presidential campaign in 2004 and then reimbursed them...continue to full post

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