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BOSTON - When the Middlesex County district attorney promoted John Kerry to be his top assistant just months after he had earned a law degree, veteran prosecutors grumbled. Some thought he was little more than a smooth, politically connected opportunist looking for higher office.
Then came the George Edgerly case. A career criminal acquitted years earlier in the beheading of his wife, Edgerly stood accused of rape in 1977. After Kerry won a conviction, the biggest during his first year on the job, prosecutors gathered at a neighborhood bar.See the full content of this document
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Kerry Earned Respect of Fellow Prosecutors
"One by one, the veteran prosecutors in the office went over and shook his hand, and by the end of the night all of the prosecutors were down at John's end of the bar," recalled John Markey, another assistant district attorney at the time. "I'm sure there ...
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