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A Reform DA Fights Back

The Crime Report

Late last year, Becton, 70, sat down at her county office with The Imprint for a three-hour conversation about her career and her vision for reforming the criminal justice system. In 1960, she experienced perhaps her most formative memory: watching on television as 6-year-old Ruby Bridges of New Orleans, Louisiana, flanked by white U.S.

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