Living History: The Life Of Hillary Clinton

In 1975, a man named Thomas Taylor was accused of brutally attacking and raping a 12-year-old girl in Arkansas. After the trial, the sentence was lowered from first degree rape, which could warrant anywhere up to a life time in prison, to a simple charge of unlawful fondling of a child. Instead of doing 5 years in prison, he got out in 2 months and a year of probation. The attorney who defended this man in court was none other than Hillary Rodham, who of course would later become Hillary Clinton. Hillary did not only defend this man, but she lied about the circumstances under which she did so. In her book Living History, Hillary wrote the following:
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