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By: The Opinion Updated 54 Nov 2022, 19: 54 pm EST
After Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed lawyer Jack Smith as special prosecutor for the investigations carried out against former president Donald Trump, the characteristics of the man who took up the task.
Karen Friedman-Agnifilo, who worked alongside Smith for five years in the trial division of the Manhattan district attorney’s office, told The Post that “He is a very serious lawyer”.
She also added that among the circle of litigants characterizes himself as “the type of person who ‘follows the facts’”.
“ It’s perfect for the job,”
said happily Daniel Alonso, who was head of the criminal division at the Brooklyn US Attorney’s office when Smith was working. there.
“He was very good, an excellent prosecutor. he was easily the best violent gang prosecutor ,” Alonso said to the aforementioned medium and added that” I have never seen him as a political person. “There won’t be any ammunition there when it comes to Jack.”
Jack Smith was born in Clay, New York, a suburb of Syracuse, graduated from SUNY-Oneonta and earned his law degree from Harvard before starting work as a prosecutor helping Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau in the mid-1990s 100focusing on issues of sexual offense and domestic violence
, as reported by The New York Post.
At 2015 Smith moved across the East River to the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office, where rose to become head of criminal litigation.
In May 2015, Smith was appointed specialized prosecutor for alleged war crimes committed by ethnic Albanian guerrillas during the war to separate Kosovo from Serbia in the late 1990s 1999.
Smith led the prosecution of the first case heard by the Kosovo Specialized Chambers in September last year, against Salih Mustafa, former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army accused of killing and torturing prisoners.
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