Murder trial to start for ex-White House lawyer

Former White House lawyer John Farren is to be tried in absentia for the alleged attempted murder of Mary Farren, his then wife who had been a lawyer at Skadden, Arps.

The trial of John Farren, a former White House lawyer charged wtih murder, is to begin. Orhan Cam

A civil trial has already found him liable to pay US$28.6m for the brain injury and emotional trauma inflicted on his wife in an attack in 2010. A Connecticut judge has now granted his request not to be present at the criminal trial, after he argued that he would suffer psychological problems. His ex-wife served him with divorce papers in January 2010. Source: ABA

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