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Pennsylvania lawyer’s ad starring smiling thugs draws criticism

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USA: A Pittsburgh lawyer’s online ad showing smiling robbers, drug dealers, and prostitutes flashing thumbs up and thanking him for getting them off the hook has garnered tens of thousands of views and drawn fire from a local bar association.

One fictional criminal pauses while climbing out a window, carrying a laptop to say “Thanks Dan”, to the camera, while a pair of men carrying handguns offer a similar message before pulling ski masks over their faces in the three-minute, 27-second ad posted on YouTube by criminal defence lawyer Daniel Muessig.

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