By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Nancy Svetich Pogue once used a flowing red negligee to save a client from prison.
The dramatic moment came when then deputy public defender Pogue held up the sheer nightgown and asked jurors if a woman forced into her home by a man intent on rape would have first changed into a negligee, as the woman claimed.
The jury acquitted Pogue's client, a parolee with a prior "strike" th... (continued)
Dec. 15, 2010
Nancy Svetich Pogue
Commissioner Nancy Svetich Pogue provides the calm needed to diffuse the tension in her child-support courtroom.
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