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Robert Jackson was an associate Justice of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in the 1940s and 1950s.  He also served as the Chief Prosecutor at the [[Nuremberg Trials]] at the end of [[World War II]], in Germany.   
 
Robert Jackson was an associate Justice of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in the 1940s and 1950s.  He also served as the Chief Prosecutor at the [[Nuremberg Trials]] at the end of [[World War II]], in Germany.   
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Jackson, who never attended college, was known to be a brilliant, conservative judge.  Evidently he conducted the Nuremberg Trials in a reasonably fair manner, as three persons were acquitted and a substantial percentage avoided the death penalty.
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Jackson, who never attended college, was known to be a brilliant, conservative judge.  Evidently he conducted the [[Nuremberg Trials]] in a reasonably fair manner, as three persons were acquitted and a substantial percentage avoided the death penalty.
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Future conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist once served as Jackson's clerk.
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Future conservative Chief Justice [[William Rehnquist]] once served as Jackson's clerk.
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