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Oral history interview with Norman Sepenuk [Session 03, Recording 02]
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- 1993-03-07 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:31:07
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Norman Sepenuk was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1933. He attended Rutgers College and transferred to Princeton University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1954. He then served in the U.S. Army until 1956. In 1959, he earned a law degree from Harvard Law School. He practiced law in Jersey City until 1961, when he relocated to Washington, D.C., to work for the Department of Justice Tax Division. In 1963, he and Barbara Hammond were married; they later had three children. In 1965, U.S. Attorney Sid Lezak requested Sepenuk's assistance in an Oregon tax evasion case, and soon after that, Lezak offered him a job. Sepenuk worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Oregon from 1965 to 1972. He left the office briefly in 1968 to attend the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he earned a master's degree in public administration in 1969. In 1971 he was selected as one of two attorneys from Oregon to serve on the National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws (also known as the Brown Commission). In 1972, he entered private practice and worked as an independent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon, with a focus on white collar crime.
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Tape 5, Side 2. In the third interview session, conducted on March 7, 1993, Sepenuk continues to discuss working as a defense attorney focused on white collar crime, cases he worked on, and judges he argued before. He also talks about his involvement in various legal associations, changes in the legal field during his career, and sentencing guidelines, particularly with regard to drug related crimes. He discusses his health, his hobbies, his wife and children, and their careers. He closes the session by reflecting on his career and achievements, and by sharing his plans for the future.
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Joint copyright is held by the Oregon Historical Society and the U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
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- English
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- Batchelor, Jeffrey M., 1946- (Contributor)