Gerry Spence, a celebrated "country lawyer" from Wyoming, died at the age of 96 after a long career of winning high-profile ...

Two-term Fremont County prosecutor, trial lawyer and Laramie native Gerry Spence died Wednesday. He was 96 years old.

Calling himself America’s best trial lawyer, he won justice for Karen Silkwood and successfully defended Imelda Marcos. He ...

One of the most famous trial attorneys of the 20th century and a proud son of Wyoming, Gerry Spence, died overnight Wednesday ...

In 1979, he rose to prominence when he won a case on behalf of nuclear whistleblower Karen Silkwood, whose story was later chronicled in a Meryl Streep film.

Well-known Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry Spence has died at age 96. Spence’s 1979 court victory against an Oklahoma plutonium ...

During 70 years as a consistently successful trial lawyer, Gerry Spence gained worldwide notoriety for his courtroom ...

Trial lawyer Gerry Spence, the defense counsel who won the acquittal of former first lady Imelda Marcos on federal ...

Don’t know Gerry Spence? Lawyer 60-plus years? OK. He probably doesn’t know you either. Wyoming country boy. Defended the superfamous. Never lost a criminal case. In the ’80s I saw him fight ...

Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder, by Gerry Spence (St. Martin’s, 352 pp., $27.99) I learned early in my police career that when an arrest has been made and a case gets presented ...

A case Gerry Spence won 13 years ago haunted him earlier this year. Wyoming`s most famous attorney wrestled with his revulsion toward capital punishment as the state executed Mark Hopkinson, whose ...