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Pointing From the Grave, A True Story of Murder and DNA.

Author Samantha Weinberg, pg. 255.

The Frediani case was David Barticks fourth murder. Bartick's practice represented people accused of a wide range of crimes; corporations and drug dealers, bankers charged with money laundering, judges with domestic violence and domestic cleaners accused of murder. Unusually for a defense attorney, he commands respect across the board; from his peers, DAs, policemen, journalists. He is always busy, but makes it a point to devote as much energy to each of his clients, whatever their crime and whatever their circumstances. He is known as a professional - who fights hard, without ever crossing the line, or compromising his ethics. His first loyalty, however, is always to his client.

San Diego Union Tribune, Woman Makes Her Stand, Tells Her Story, Is Acquitted

Because Xochil Munoz frequently crossed the border into San Ysidro, she knew inspectors would ask to search her car once in a while. So Munoz wasnt nervous last January when agents converged on the 1990 Toyota Camry station wagon she had just bought from an acquaintance... Agents sliced into the tire and found three packages each containing about a kilogram of cocaine ... Bartick told her not to worry. She would have a chance to tell her story... Bartick argued that Munoz was an unwitting tool of the drug trade. She was set up, he told jurors... Eventually, Munoz decided to tell her story to a jury, convincing jurors she wasnt a criminal and weeping with relief at a rare not-guilty verdict in San Diego federal court ... With tears in her eyes, she hugged Bartick.

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San Diego Union Tribune, Jury Acquits 5 From Ship With A Cargo of Cocaine

The 10 tons of cocaine on the fishing trawler Svesda Maru was so well hidden it took U.S. authorities five days to find it. It was the largest maritime cocaine bust in history, federal agents boasted at the time... So when five crew members of the Belize-flagged ship went on trial in federal court earlier this month is San Diego, their lawyers argued they didnt know the true mission of their trip. Jurors agreed Wednesday, acquitting the five Russian and Ukranian crew members on charges of conspiracy to smuggle drugs... They all proclaimed their complete innocence from Day One, said attorney David Bartick...

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San Diego Union Tribune, Elated Man is Cleared in Slaying on Grounds He was Misidentified

A man accused of murdering an East County bus driver in an act of road rage was cleared yesterday after authorities admitted that they had the wrong man ... Defense attorney David Bartick said Martinez was not involved in the slaying in any way ... Truly, my client has no personal knowledge of the offense, Bartick said ... Bartick said Martinez was elated that the charges were dropped.

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San Diego Union Tribune, Ailing Boy Gets Wish to See His Jailed Dad

The boy lives in a Chicago boarding school with 24-hour medical care. Doctors say muscular dystrophy has taken away his ability to breathe normally, to eat normally, even to lift his arms. His dying wish - his only wish - was to see his father who is awaiting trial in San Diego jail in a 15-year old slaying... This week, after months of efforts by attorney [David Bartick], and with the approval of a federal judge, that wish came true... Such visits are extremely rare, particularly in cases involving murder charges, said David Bartick, Balentines defense lawyer, recalling another attorneys description of it as a minor miracle.

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