He secured acquittals for several accused in by convincing the courts that the accused were wrongly booked under the controversial Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, which allows confessions acquired in police custody to be used as evidence against the accused.
He aided in securing acquittal in impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson (1868).
Many were handed prison sentences after being convicted of a variety of offences, but since the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi almost all have secured acquittals.
For Mr. Dowd, his seminal battered-woman case occurred in 1987, when he marshaled a self-defense argument to secure an acquittal for Karen Straw, a Queens woman who stabbed her husband to death after he had raped her at knife point in front of her two children.
In 2000, Nunn secured an acquittal for actor Woody Harrelson, who came to Lee County, Kentucky, and planted hemp seeds in open defiance of Kentucky's law forbidding the cultivation of hemp.
The front-runner to represent Chapo, according to a Wall Street Journal report last month, is Jeffrey Lichtman, a New York criminal defense attorney who secured an acquittal for mafia boss John Gotti.
The second lawyer defending the Met in the inquest was Neil Saunders, who secured an acquittal for the Deputy Editor of the News of the World, Neil Wallis, during the "phone hacking" scandal, as well as for Rebekah Brooks' husband Charlie, who was caught up in allegations of an "inappropriate" relationship between the Met police and News International (Charlie Brooks was later acquitted).
He made a name for himself almost immediately by securing the acquittal of a black man who had been charged with murder based on an extorted confession and perjured testimony.
Bennett-Jenkins was successful in securing the acquittal of one, Chris Goncalves.
In a legal career that lasted seven years, he secured seventeen acquittals, a rare feat especially in cases that police and intelligence agencies believed to be foolproof.
