{"id":1319,"date":"2013-05-01T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/01\/judy-clarke-for-the-defense\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:42:38","slug":"judy-clarke-for-the-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/judy-clarke-for-the-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Clarke for the defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6781\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/judy-clarke.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6781\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6781 lazyload\" title=\"judy-clarke\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/judy-clarke.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"230\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 202px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 202\/230;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Reed Saxon\/AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If he is convicted, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect may be spared a trip to death row thanks to the addition of a criminal defense whiz\u2014with a history of securing life sentences\u2014to his legal team. Judy Clarke, a 1974 Furman graduate, joined Dzhokhar Tsarnaev&#8217;s defense team on Monday. Clarke, however, doesn&#8217;t seek out big death-penalty cases; they find her. She was profiled on NBCNews.com.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Asheville, N.C., Clarke graduated from Furman with a degree in psychology before earning her law degree at the University of South Carolina.\u00a0 She has spent most of her career in California and the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/05\/01\/17986289-tsarnaevs-best-defense-judy-clarke-who-keeps-clients-off-death-row\">Read more at NBCNews.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If he is convicted, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect may be spared a trip to death row thanks to the addition of a criminal defense whiz\u2014with a history of securing life sentences\u2014to his legal team. Judy Clarke, a 1974 Furman graduate, joined Dzhokhar Tsarnaev&#8217;s defense team on Monday. Clarke, however, doesn&#8217;t seek out big death-penalty cases; they find her. She was profiled on NBCNews.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}