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About Alf Nordhus
- Alf Nordhus (25 August 1919 – 19 December 1997) was a Norwegian barrister.
- Alf Magnus Nordhus was born in Bergen, Norway.
- Nordhus graduated from the University of Oslo with a law degree in 1943.
- He was a public prosecutor from 1946 to 1947.
- Nordhus was licensed as an attorney in 1953 and opened his own law practice in Oslo the same year.
- From 1958 he practiced as a barrister before the Supreme Court of Norway.
- He became a very well known and sought-after defense lawyer.
- He served in the defense in several serious criminal cases.
- Among his most prominent trials were the Hollekim case (1964) where he went against his own client who had confessed to murder and got him acquitted.
- The Liv case (1982) involved a woman accused of having killed her husband after years of being subjected to psychological and physical abuse.
- A bust of Nordhus, sculptured by Nils Aas, is located at the Oslo Courthouse.
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