Hard-charging civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox, 77, dies in

Maddox, who worked together with Rev. Al Sharpton and disbarred attorney C. Vernon Mason, became an advocate for victims of police abuse in some of the most racially divisive cases in the city.

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