Letters to the Editor: April 5, 2011

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Crime history: filling in some details Re: “Burr, Hamilton defend suspect in Manhattan murder mystery,” April 1

Besides the homicide trial acquittal of Levi Weeks on April 1, 1800, achieved by defense counsel Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton and Brockholst Livingston (later a U.S. Supreme Court justice), there were other instances where Burr and Hamilton worked together before they fought their 1804 duel.

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