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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Jill Lawless / The Bulletin
January 17, 2009
LONDON — British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85.
Mortimer’s family said he died early in the morning at his home in the Chiltern Hills northwest of London, with his wife and children....