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At the university, Rodham taught classes in criminal law. She was considered a rigorous teacher who was tough with her grades.
Rodham became the first director of a new legal aid clinic at the school, where she secured support from the local bar association and gained federal funding.
As a court-appointed lawyer, Rodham was required to act as defense counsel to a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl;
after her request to be relieved of the assignment failed, Rodham used an effective defense and counseled her client to plead guilty to a lesser charge. She has called the trial a "terrible case".
In 1975, Clinton represented Thomas Alfred Taylor, a 41-year-old man accused of raping a young girl, for free while working at the legal aid clinic at the University of Arkansas.
Based on court documents obtained by CNN and Clinton's own account in her 2003 memoir "Living History," she won a plea deal for Taylor, securing a significantly reduced charge and sentence, based on a forensic mistake that cast doubt on the semen and blood samples found in the defendant’s underwear.
Clinton’s critics highlighting the case insinuate it shows that Clinton is not the champion of women’s issues she frames herself to be, pointing to court documents that show Clinton questioned the girl's emotional state and an audio recording of Clinton from the 1980s where she says she believed her client was guilty.
The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website that obtained and released the audio, alleges Clinton agreed to represent Taylor. In the Beacon recording, Clinton says she took the case
"as a favor."
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Shelton
https://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/25/prosecutor-in-controversial-case-says-clinton-had-no-choice-but-to-defend-rapist/
(yeah, I know, sources suck)