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27-Litigation Tactics (Including Misrepresentations, Tape Recordings)
Determining if a prosecutor's public statements about the brutality of a murder violate the Code's prohibition on extrajudicial statements is a legal matter beyond the purview of the Bar. [Rule 3.6(a) now governs such statements.]

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