Major players in perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby

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NYT/AP: CIA Leak Players
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 13, 2007

DEFENDANT: LEWIS "SCOOTER" LIBBY....

JUDGE: U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE REGGIE WALTON

....A former prosecutor who served as deputy drug czar under the first President Bush, Walton also spent time as a public defender and has spoken out against what he sees as unfair disparities between sentences for possession of crack and powder cocaine.

The same man who built a reputation for handing down stiff sentences is also known for counseling teenagers who share his hardscrabble upbringing.

Walton, a Republican, was one of the current president's first judicial nominees in 2001. Walton was introduced at his confirmation hearing by the District of Columbia's delegate, Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton. He was unanimously approved by the Senate....

He worked his way through American University's Washington College of Law and, by age 30, was chief of the career criminal unit in the U.S. attorney's office in the nation's capital. When he was 32, President Reagan appointed him as a judge on the D.C. Superior Court....

PROSECUTOR: PATRICK FITZGERALD....

DEFENSE TEAM

As a lawyer himself and political veteran, Libby knew the legal landscape as well as anyone. He has hired Theodore V. Wells Jr. and William H. Jeffress Jr., two big-name defense lawyers.

Between them, Wells and Jeffress have represented former President Nixon, former Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., tobacco companies, former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan and former Rep. Floyd Flake, D-N.Y....

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