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Alan Dershowitz, onetime Jeffrey Epstein lawyer, named to Trump's impeachment legal team

WASHINGTON - Ten years after O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, one of his lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, admitted that "sometimes you lose sleep at night" while working as a defense attorney.

"Every lawyer who's also a good person has these ambivalences," he told PBS in 2005.

It might seem a bout of unlikely introspection for an outspoken lawyer whose high-profile career has been marred by his association with a now-dead pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, and is now headed back into the spotlight as he argues against President Donald Trump's removal

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