Following the verdict, Richard Crowley, deputy chief prosecutor at CPS East Midlands, said footage of Anne's treatment had upset many people across the country.

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Asked if he would use Lee as an expert witness again given the developments in the Spector case, Christopher Anderson, the deputy chief prosecutor of the criminal division, hesitated.

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He was chosen as special prosecutor last August by Deputy Chief Administration Judge Fern Fisher after Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes recused himself because Lopez, as Brooklyn Democratic chairman, supported Hynes politically.

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But in September he appointed Bernard Chunga, the long-serving deputy public prosecutor, and a man deeply loyal to the regime, to be chief justice.

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