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Olympic canoeist's lawyers urge DOJ inspector general to reconsider Reflecting Pool case probe

Lawyers who represented Olympic canoeist David Hearn in a now-defunct criminal case alleging he vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are urging the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) internal watchdog to reconsider a probe into how the indictment and prosecution were handled. A letter sent Wednesday from Hearn's legal team to Inspector General Don…

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