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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.
Reflecting on a career sitting beside the worst of the worst
- Lori Pilger | Lincoln Journal Star
- Aug 29, 2015
- Aug 29, 2015 Updated Sep 18, 2015
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Jim Mowbray is retiring from the Nebraska Commission on Public Advocacy.
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Jim Mowbray makes his closing argument during a 2008 murder trial in Gage County.
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Jim Mowbray's Perry Mason moment didn't come the day the Nebraska Supreme Court sided with him in 2008 and found that Nebraska's electric chair was cruel and unusual punishment.
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