Seeking Justice: Janice Bassil ('78) defends Massachusetts' most controversial clients

By: lawweb (111) in faculty, alumni

Janice Bassil ('78) has had more than her share of emotionally charged cases over the years. In [...]1996, she was the court-appointed attorney for John Salvi, who was found guilty of murder after a shooting rampage at two abortion clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 2009, she won an acquittal for a single mother accused of killing her two children in their Roslindale, Massachusetts home... Read more: http://www.bu.edu/law/communications/bassil_seeking_justice.shtml

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