Susan Jordan, a California criminal defense attorney known for zealously advocating on behalf of women, died in a single-engine plane crash on Friday. Jordan won an acquittal in a 1977 case that made her name by successfully arguing to a jury that the female defendant acted in self-defense when she shot to death a man who had raped her. Jordan spent her life defending those she thought had been victimized by the government, or were powerless or oppressed, says her friend and former law partner, William Osterhoudt.
June 03, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Susan Jordan, a Ukiah, Calif., criminal defense attorney known for zealously advocating on behalf of women, died in a plane crash in Utah on Friday. She was 67.
Jordan and longtime friend John Austin, a health-care executive, were flying Austin’s home-built single-engine plane when they crashed, the Ukiah Daily Journal reported. The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane hit power lines in the town of Escalante, which sits near the hilly Bryce Canyon National Park.
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