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Juliet Sorensen

American lawyer

Summary

American lawyer

Juliet Sorensen (born 1972/1973) Previously, she was a member of the clinical faculty at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where she was associated with its Center for International Human Rights.

Early life

Born to Theodore C. Sorensen, former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy, and Gillian M. Sorensen of the United Nations Foundation, | url-access = registration Sorensen graduated from Princeton University and Columbia Law School.

Career

Between 1995 and 1997, Sorensen volunteered with the Peace Corps in Morocco.

She served as assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago from 2003 to 2010. She prosecuted City of Chicago inspectors as part of Operation Crooked Code, a bribery investigation into the Chicago building and zoning departments.{{Cite news |url-status = dead She prosecuted Jean-Marie Vianney ("Zuzu") Mudahinyuka, a leader of the Rwandan genocide,{{Cite news

In March 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in a unanimous panel opinion written by Judge Richard Posner, found that Sorensen had engaged in prosecutorial misconduct and made "a series of improper statements" which the Court labeled "false and misleading." In the trial court case of U.S. v. Farinella, which was appealed as 558 F.3d 695,{{Cite news | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150203181640/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-03-17/news/0903160573_1_prosecutor-salad-dressing-scolds | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 3, 2015 a jury had found a Chicago businessman guilty of fraud and misbranding for relabeling 1.6 million bottles of salad dressing to extend their "best when purchased by" date, then reselling the bottles.{{Cite news | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110717165054/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-06-26/business/0806250888_1_salad-dressing-expiration-dates-count-of-wire-fraud | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 17, 2011 Posner found that although relabeling "best when purchased by" dates was not a crime, Sorensen's improper argument would have required reversal in any case.{{Cite news

Personal life

Sorensen married economist Benjamin Jones on August 19, 2000.

Notes

References

  1. "Faculty Profile of Juliet Sorensen".
  2. "Master of Public Health".
  3. "Northwestern Access to Health Project".
  4. "Archived copy".
  5. (July 2009). "Vindicated on Appeal— It Does Happen". FOOD AND DRUG LAW INSTITUTE.
  6. "Text of opinion in U.S. v. Farinella, 558 F. 3d 695 (7th Cir. 2009)".
  7. (August 20, 2000). "WEDDINGS; Juliet Sorensen, Benjamin Jones". The New York Times.
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