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NEW YORK (AP) - Richard Conway Casey, who was the nation's first blind federal trial judge and presided over high-profile cases including an abortion-law challenge and the Peter Gotti trial, has died at the age of 74.
Casey, who spent almost a decade on the bench, died Thursday, his office said. The cause was an apparent heart attack.
Casey was nominated for federal judgeship by President Clinton in 1997, 10 years after he became blind from an inherited degenerative eye disease.
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