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Rival challenges Rice remark on prosecuting Spitzer

Nassau DA Kathleen Rice, center, and other candidates

Photo credit: Bruce Gilbert | Nassau DA Kathleen Rice, center, and other candidates in the race for New York Attorney General debate at NYU Law School. (Sept. 2, 2010)

Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice gave no direct answer in a public radio debate in Manhattan Wednesday when challenged by a Democratic rival to disclose the law she could have used to prosecute former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer for patronizing a prostitute in Washington, D.C.

Rice is the only one of the five Democrats vying for attorney general who says she would have charged Spitzer.

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