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Who is Keith Ellison? (7)

June 12, 2006 Posted by Scott at 6:52 AM

In this morning's Star Tribune story by Margaret Zack, DFL-endorsed Fifth District congressional candidate Keith Ellison appears as the attorney defending Lamar Lucky Smith, a man charged with the cold blooded murder of (I gather from the story) illegal immigrant Martin Ruiz in Minneapolis last summer: "Two go on trial for ambush killing." The murder is described by Minneapolis's former police chief as an execution in cold blood.