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judge_attacks[i-1].body = "A Reno, Nev. family court judge was shot three times and wounded by a sniper as he stood near a third-floor courthouse window June 12. Police apprehended suspect Darren Mack, who had a recent divorce proceeding in family court. Mack is also a suspect in his wife's murder. ";

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judge_attacks[i-1].body = "On Feb. 28, the husband and mother of federal Judge Joan Lefkow are slain execution-style in the basement of the judge's Chicago home. Although they originally feared some connection to white supremacists because of previous threats on Lefkow's life, police now believe the killer was a Chicago electrician who was upset over a ruling that Lefkow had made against him in a medical malpractice lawsuit. That man, Bart Ross, killed himself when Milwaukee police made a routine traffic stop of his van on March 9, 2005.";

judge_attacks[i++] = new Array("","1999"," Los Angeles County Court Commissioner H. George Taylor was killed after being struck by three shotgun blasts as he entered his home’s driveway. His wife Lynda was shot and killed when she rushed outside to investigate. No arrests were made, but detectives are convinced that the slayings were connected to Taylor’s work in court.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
judge_attacks[i++] = new Array("","1989"," Federal judge Robert Vance was killed when he opened a bomb-laden package in his home outside Birmingham, Ala. His wife was severely injured but survived. Walter Leroy Moody Jr. was convicted and sentenced to die. Moody sent mail bombs to Vance and to a black civil rights lawyer, Robert Robinson, because he was angry that a 1972 conviction for possessing a pipe bomb had not been overturned.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
judge_attacks[i++] = new Array("","1987"," Mississippi judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, a former Biloxi city councilwoman and mayoral contender, were murdered in their home. Later convicted as part of a racketeering organization that arranged for their contract murders were a former mayor of Biloxi, Pete Halat, and three other people. Prosecutors alleged the killings were ordered over missing profits from a prison scam that had been kept in the law office Halat and Sherry once shared. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
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judge_attacks[i-1].body = "Federal judge Richard J. Daronco was killed at his Pelham, N.Y., home by Charles L. Koster, a retired New York City police officer apparently seeking revenge for the judge’s dismissal of a $2.5 million lawsuit filed by his daughter. Koster then shot and killed himself.";

judge_attacks[i++] = new Array("","1987"," Mobster Joel Cacace hired a trio of hitmen to kill federal prosecutor William Aronwald for disrespecting the Columbo crime family. By mistake they tailed Aronwald’s father, George, a 78-year-old city administrative law judge who shared an office with his son, and shot him dead as he stopped to pick up his laundry.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
judge_attacks[i++] = new Array("","1983"," Illinois Judge Henry Gentile was shot to death in his courtroom by a disgruntled man whose divorce case was being heard by Gentile. Also slain was lawyer James Piszczor. Hutchie Moore was convicted of murder in the shootings.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
judge_attacks[i++] = new Array("","1979"," U.S. District Judge John Wood was slain by a sniper outside his home in San Antonio. The killer was hired because defendants in a Colombian drug-smuggling case before the judge believed he would impose a maximum sentence on them. Charles Harrelson, the father of actor Woody Harrelson, was convicted and sentenced to two life terms in the first assassination of a federal judge in the 20th century.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
judge_attacks[i++] = new Array("","1974"," Washington state Superior Court Judge James Lawless was killed when he opened a brown package. Ricky Anthony Young was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Lawless had been scheduled to sentence Young in an arson case, and sometime earlier had sent him to jail in the burglary of a drug store.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
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judge_attacks[i-1].body = "Superior Court Judge Harold Haley is kidnapped during a trial at the Marin County Courthouse in San Rafael, Calif., in a bid to win freedom for the \"Soledad Brothers.\" Haley, his kidnapper and two fleeing inmates die in a hail of police bullets.";

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