Spence, who was known for wearing fringe, was best known for winning a multimillion-dollar judgment against a plutonium ...

Gerry Spence, a celebrated "country lawyer" from Wyoming, died at the age of 96 after a long career of winning high-profile ...

One of the most famous trial attorneys of the 20th century and a proud son of Wyoming, Gerry Spence, died overnight Wednesday ...

Calling himself America’s best trial lawyer, he won justice for Karen Silkwood and successfully defended Imelda Marcos. He also wrote best sellers.

Idaho - Gerry Spence, who was Randy Weaver’s lawyer after the Ruby Ridge shootout, has died. A family statement said that he ...

By the late 1960s, he shifted exclusively to representing plaintiffs and criminal defendants, aligning his practice with his conscience. His law firm moved from Casper to Jackson in 1978 and continues ...

Two-term Fremont County prosecutor, trial lawyer and Laramie native Gerry Spence died Wednesday. He was 96 years old. Spence could count himself among Wyoming's most famous faces throughout his ...

Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder, by Gerry Spence (St. Martin’s, 352 pp., $27.99) I learned early in my police career that when an arrest has been made and a case gets presented ...

Don’t know Gerry Spence? Lawyer 60-plus years? OK. He probably doesn’t know you either. Wyoming country boy. Defended the superfamous. Never lost a criminal case. In the ’80s I saw him fight ...

A case Gerry Spence won 13 years ago haunted him earlier this year. Wyoming`s most famous attorney wrestled with his revulsion toward capital punishment as the state executed Mark Hopkinson, whose ...

Gerry Spence, who turns 80 next month, has been practicing law for 560 years. He got his first big break in 1974 when he represented Karen Silkwood's family in a case against Kerr-McGee.

On this page on Sept. 15, Joshua Marquis, an Oregon prosecutor, discussed a new book by Gerry Spence about the trials of a son and mother for a murder committed in rural Lincoln County, Ore., 18 ...