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In this March 3, 2014, courtroom sketch from files, defense attorney Stanley Cohen, right, sits next to a translator during the jury selection for Cohen's client Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, left, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, during Abu Ghaith's trial in New York on charges that he conspired to kill Americans and support terrorists in his role as al-Qaida's spokesman after the Sept. 11 attacks. It can be an uncomfortable life for any defense attorney representing unpopular clients, but lawyers who agree to speak on behalf of people accused of plotting to kill Americans in terrorist attacks walk difficult road. Cohen says, “You get stigmatized. Folks avoid you. You get ostracized. It’s terrible for a mate to see terrible publicity, to see you vilified, to avoid social settings because you know it will lead to confrontations.” (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)
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FILE - In this May 29, 2003, file photo, attorney Stanley Cohen, center, speaks to reporters on the steps of the Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon after his client, Mohamed Kariye, who pleaded guilty to minor fraud charges on March 3, received a sentence of five years probation. It can be an uncomfortable life for any defense attorney representing unpopular clients, but lawyers who agree to speak on behalf of people accused of plotting to kill Americans in terrorist attacks walk difficult road. “You get stigmatized. Folks avoid you. Cohen says, "You get ostracized. It’s terrible for a mate to see terrible publicity, to see you vilified, to avoid social settings because you know it will lead to confrontations.” (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2012, file photo, federal defense attorneys Sabrina Shroff, left, and Jerrod Thompson Hicks exit Manhattan federal court, in New York where they were representing Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, charged with conspiring to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon and of helping abduct 16 hostages, two of them American tourists, in Yemen in 1998. It can be an uncomfortable life for any defense attorney representing unpopular clients, but lawyers who agree to speak on behalf of people accused of plotting to kill Americans in terrorist attacks walk difficult road. But representing every client, regardless of the crime, is the “very essence of being a federal defender," said Shroff, an assistant federal defender. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)
