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Judge, litigators’ deal in robbery case rapped

Justices rip lowering of witness’ sentence

Posted: December 6, 2009 at 7:02 a.m.

A judge, a prosecutor and a public defender face possible sanctions after the state Supreme Court found they wrongly agreed to lower a sentence for a witness against a man charged with bank robbery.

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