Following news of well-known civil rights attorney William Buckman’s death—a suicide, according to police—lawyers who worked with him recounted his courtroom talents and his many successes, most notably in challenging racial-profiling practices within the State Police.
Buckman, 61, who headed a Moorestown, N.J., firm and was heavily involved with the American Civil Liberties Union’s New Jersey chapter throughout his career, helped convince a judge 18 years ago that state troopers along a southern stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike were disproportionately targeting black motorists.
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