Joel Steinberg

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Joel Barnet Steinberg (born May 25, 1941) is a disbarred American attorney from New York City who attracted international media attention when he was accused of child abuse and murder for the beating and subsequent death of a six-year-old girl, Elizabeth ("Lisa") Launders. Steinberg and his live-in partner, Hedda Nussbaum, had illegally adopted the girl. Nussbaum was granted immunity for her testimony, and Steinberg was convicted of manslaughter in November 1987 and paroled in 2004.

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