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March 19, 2012 | | FLASHY Before the public even knew the name of the Army staff sergeant accused of murdering 16 Afghans in cold blood, his lawyer was busily trying the case in the media. The Daily Beast’s Winston Ross talks to the colleagues and rivals of John Henry Browne, the 6-foot-5 Seattle attorney who’s defended Ted Bundy and the ‘Barefoot Bandit.’ Fingers Crossed Rick Santorum doesn’t think any of the Republican candidates have a good chance at securing the 1,144 delegates needed for the presidential nomination, making it likely that the primary will end in a brokered convention. Despite his dismal showing in Puerto Rico over the weekend, Santorum is looking forward to a better turnout in Illinois this week in the hopes that he can at least prevent Mitt Romney from accumulating more delegates. “If the other people stay in the race, it’s going to be hard for anyone to get to that magic number,” the former Pennsylvania senator said on CBS’s This Morning. “We believe we get to the convention, the convention will nominate a conservative. The convention will not nominate an establishment moderate from Massachusetts.” RESOLUTE Lynndie England, the former U.S. soldier convicted of abusing Iraqi detainees in the Abu Ghraib scandal, says in a new interview that she doesn’t regret how the detainees were treated. “Their lives are better. They got the better end of the deal,” she tells The Daily. “They weren’t innocent. They’re trying to kill us, and you want me to apologize to them? It’s like saying sorry to the enemy.” Now the mother of a 7-year-old son, England says she has at least one regret: she worries that some of the pictures of her and her fellow soldiers humiliating and abusing detainees may have cost American lives on the battlefield. She also told interviewers that she doesn’t regret having her son, even though the father, Charles Graner, who was the ringleader of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, doesn’t want anything to do with him. PRIMARY Analysts are saying that Illinois’s Tuesday primary is a must-win for Rick Santorum, but new Public Policy Polling numbers show that probably won’t happen. Frontrunner Mitt Romney has a commanding 45 percent–to–30 percent lead over Santorum, according to the survey released Monday, the eve of the vote (it was taken Saturday and Sunday). Both candidates are campaigning today in the state, which has 54 delegates at stake. PAYBACK The owners of the New York Mets have agreed to pay $162 million to other Madoff investors who lost their cash when the billionaire financier’s fraud scheme went belly up. They reached an agreement with the trustee for Madoff’s victims Monday morning just as jury selection for a civil trial to determine how much the Mets owners owed was about to begin. (The trustee’s lawyer, Irving Picard, had alleged that the Mets owners knew Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme but invested anyway.) A judge had already ruled that they must pay up to $83 million back, but if they had gone to trial, they might have been forced to pay another $303 million. Mets lawyers were prepared to call pitcher Sandy Koufax to testify for the defense. | | 
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