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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts) Wed Jul 6, 2016, 10:59 PM Jul 2016

Did Alton Sterling's family hire Benjamin Crump the lawyer?

I just saw that upsetting statement by Sterling's wife, and it looked as if Crump was in the background.

I'm sure he does his best representing these families, and he seems like a nice guy, but he has a long track record of coming out on the losing side of his cases.

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Did Alton Sterling's family hire Benjamin Crump the lawyer? (Original Post) bluestateguy Jul 2016 OP

What are you talking about? BronxBoy Jul 2016 #1

They hired a local lawyer Catherine Vincent Jul 2016 #2

BronxBoy

(2,286 posts)

1. What are you talking about?

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 11:16 PM

Jul 2016

Mr. Crump is not a prosecutor so im not sure how he has been "coming out on the losing side of these cases". In many of these cases, civil judgements have been paid out. If he has been the civil attorney of record, his performance has been the exact opposite of your claim

Catherine Vincent

(34,490 posts)

2. They hired a local lawyer

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 11:27 PM

Jul 2016

Thank goodness.

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