Grant Cooper
{{Short description|American defense attorney}}
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Grant B. Cooper (April 1, 1903, in New York City[https://web.archive.org/web/20081214132134/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,838859,00.html "Priceless Defenders"]. Time. January 17, 1969. – May 3, 1990{{cite news | title = Grant Cooper Dies; Was Sirhan Sirhan's Defense Attorney | work = The Post-Standard |location=Syracuse, NY | date = May 10, 1990 }}), was the chief defense attorney in the murder trial against Sirhan Sirhan for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Sirhan's more recent counsel has accused Cooper of deliberately throwing the Sirhan case as the result of a then-pending indictment against Cooper for possessing stolen transcripts of the grand jury proceedings in the Beverly Hills Friar's Club card cheating case. Cooper, who faced the possibility of jail time, was eventually fined $1000. Cooper died in 1990 of an aortic aneurysm.
Notable cases
Besides his role as the lead attorney for Sirhan Sirhan, he also defended JPL co-founder Tsien Hsue-shen against charges of being a communist and facing deportation to China.{{cite book |last1=Chang |first1=Iris |title=Thread of the Silkworm |date=August 6, 2008 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-7867-2565-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtfndLdZhnAC |access-date=February 4, 2021 |language=en}} He also represented mob boss Johnny Roselli in the Friar's Club case.
Cooper has represented several Hollywood actors, including Joan Bennett and Shirley Temple in her divorce from John Agar.{{Citation needed|date=February 2021}}
Bar Association Leadership
In 1960, Cooper served as President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.{{Cite web |title=LACBA Presidents |url=https://lacba.org/?pg=LACBA-Presidents |access-date=2025-02-15 |website=lacba.org}}
From 1962 to 1963, Cooper was the president of the American College of Trial Lawyers.[http://www.actl.com/Source/Members/actl_CommitteeRoster.cfm?section=Past_Presidents2&co=pp ACTL.com] ACTL About Us - Past Presidents
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Category:Deaths from aortic aneurysm
Category:20th-century American lawyers
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