title: Austin Cooper (lawyer)
text: # Austin Cooper (lawyer)
  
  Austin Cooper (1930 – 24 September 2013) was a Canadian criminal lawyer. His cases include defending Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in the 1970s for heroin possession and Susan Nelles, a nurse who was accused of murdering babies during a spree of deaths at a Toronto hospital. He was a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School.
  
  