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Ketanji Brown Jackson would be first federal defender on Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – Federal Park Police stormed into an condominium 4 miles east of the U.S. Capitol one fall morning in 2003. After utilizing a battering ram and ordering everybody to get on the bottom, police found a semi-automatic handgun tucked between some sheets in a laundry basket.
Regardless of a disagreement about who owned the 9 mm pistol, police arrested Andrew Littlejohn and a jury convicted him of a gun cost. When Littlejohn appealed he was assigned a public defender, a little-known Harvard-trained lawyer who right this moment is poised to change into an affiliate justice on the Supreme Court docket: Decide Ketanji Brown Jackson.