CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Gerry Spence, the fringe jacket-wearing trial lawyer from Wyoming known for a string of major court wins ...

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.

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 ...

Spence and the other defendants have denied those accusations. Defense lawyer Gerry Spence graduated from the University of Wyoming Law School and lives near Jackson. ADAM NADEL, AP 0 Comments 1 1 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The story of the lawyer (Gerry Spence) who could not lose. The story of the lawyer who could not lose. In part one of our interview with Gerry Spence, host Richard Ager speaks with Spence about ...

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 years ...

Spence, along with other individual defendants who originally served on the TLC board, began operating a Wyoming nonprofit corporation registered as "Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College at the ...