Jewish lawyers should not represent a Christian family, said an attorney for a boy injured in the Columbine High School shootings earlier this year. Denver lawyer Anthony Sturniolo sent a letter dated Oct. 14 to the family after they decided to hire Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger and local co-counsel Howard Zucker. Sturniolo told The Denver Post he did not intend the letter to be anti-Semitic.
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