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Linda Deutsch, AP trial writer who had front row to courtroom history, dies at 80

FILE – Associated Press retired Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch poses for a photo in Los Angeles, June 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

FILE – Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch, right, and other journalists demonstrate in front of a federal courthouse in Los Angeles, July 6, 2005, in support of New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who were ordered to jail by a U.S. judge for refusing to divulge sources in the investigation of the leak of an undercover CIA officer’s name. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

FILE – Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch, right, and other journalists demonstrate in front of a federal courthouse in Los Angeles, July 6, 2005, in support of New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who were ordered to jail by a U.S. judge for refusing to divulge sources in the investigation of the leak of an undercover CIA officer’s name. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch is shown in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1978. (AP Photo)