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Prince would be latest high-profile defendant – with a strategy condemned by US legal expertsNew Yorkers love a big trial.From Joan Collins, who resisted a claim from her publisher over an “unpublishable” manuscript, to Leona Helmsley’s “only little people pay taxes” prosecution, to a long line of swindlers, cheats, celebrity divorces and mafia take-downs, each scandal-strewn case becomes part of the metropolis’s dirty jungle lore. Continue reading...