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Robert Morgenthau, inspiration for Law and Order, to resign at 90

An era is passing in New York with the retirement of the legendary prosecutor who was the model for the district attorney on the TV programme Law and Order.

Robert Morgenthau has announced that he will step down at 90 after almost 35 years in office, rather than run for a tenth term in November.

The Manhattan district attorney has brought more than three million prosecutions against everyone from the mob chieftain John Gotti to John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman.

Read entire article at Times (UK)