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Aug 12, 2024 | news.bloombergtax.com | Tiana Headley |Caitlin McLeanEye |Caitlin McLean

The two decades Kate Menendez spent as a federal public defender representing people who couldn’t afford an attorney in Minnesota taught her the importance of never kicking someone while they’re down. It’s a lesson that stuck with Menendez, now a 52-year-old federal trial judge in the state, as she mulled the sentence of criminal defendant Greg Easley, who had been found guilty of possessing a machine gun while trafficking drugs.

Aug 12, 2024 | news.bloomberglaw.com | Tiana Headley |Caitlin McLean |Caitlin McLeanEye

The two decades Kate Menendez spent as a federal public defender representing people who couldn’t afford an attorney in Minnesota taught her the importance of never kicking someone while they’re down. It’s a lesson that stuck with Menendez, now a 52-year-old federal trial judge in the state, as she mulled the sentence of criminal defendant Greg Easley, who had been found guilty of possessing a machine gun while trafficking drugs.