In the corridors of the New York state Capitol, John Dunne is recalled with a respect bordering on reverence, and often viewed as a rare statesman in a Legislature that has become synonymous with acrimony, dysfunction and corruption.

Dunne spent 24 years as a Republican member of the Senate. Ironically, Dunne, now senior counsel to the Albany firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, devoted much of his post-political career to reigning in the controversial Rockefeller Drug Laws—which he had helped usher through the upper chamber.

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