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With a national profile, he represented the notorious and the celebrated, helping to secure an acquittal in the Smith rape case and a lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein.
By Adam Nossiter
Roy Black, a nationally prominent defense lawyer who successfully defended William Kennedy Smith in his 1991 trial for rape and helped Jeffrey Epstein secure a plea deal in 2008 that enabled him to escape federal sex-trafficking charges, died on Monday at his home in Coral Gables, Fla. He was 80.
