Alan M. May; White House Counsel Under Nixon
Alan M. May, 50, former White House aide in the Nixon Administration and Orange County defense attorney. May was northern California field director for Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign, and later was appointed to a series of political posts, including White House counsel. In one of his best-known cases, May won a manslaughter conviction and three-year prison term in 1985 for Vietnamese student Minh Van Lam. The student was accused of murdering Cal State Fullerton Prof. Edward Lee Cooperman. On Wednesday in San Francisco of an undisclosed illness.
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