Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori (April 18, 1860 – March 14, 1917) was a French attorney.
 He was born in Reims.
 In his professional life, he defended the accused in some of the most prominent political cases of his day.
 Among his noted clients was Alfred Dreyfus, who was eventually acquitted of treason.
 During the Dreyfus trial, Labori was the victim of an assassination attempt which hospitalized him for a week.
 The attacker was never identified.
Catherine Gertrude "Katie" Roraback (September 17, 1920 – October 17, 2007) was a civil rights attorney in Connecticut, best known for representing Estelle Griswold and Dr. C. Lee Buxton in the famous 1965 Supreme Court case, " Griswold v. Connecticut", which legalized the use of birth control in Connecticut and created the precedent of the right to privacy.
 She is also known for such cases as the New Haven Black Panther trials of 1971, in which she defended Black Panther member Ericka Huggins after she was accused of murder.
 Roraback dealt with issues such as women's rights and racial discrimination, and lived her life to defend the rights of the "dissenters and the dispossessed".
James Gillespie Birney (February 4, 1792November 25, 1857) was an abolitionist, politician, and attorney born in Danville, Kentucky.
 He published an abolitionist weekly publication titled "The Philanthropist" and twice served as the presidential nominee for the anti-slavery Liberty Party.
Sylvester Emmons (28 February 1808 – 15 November 1881) was an American attorney born in New Jersey.
Lucian Lincoln "Lin" Wood Jr. (born October 19, 1952 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is a high-profile American attorney based in Atlanta, Georgia.
 He represented Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996.
 Wood's representation of Richard Jewell propelled Wood from a personal injury lawyer to be known as one of the top libel, defamation and First Amendment lawyers in the U. S. earning him the title of "Attorney for the Damned".
Orrin N. Hilton (1849-1932) was a Denver judge and attorney who participated for the defense in several famous court cases.
 Judge Hilton successfully defended George Pettibone of the Western Federation of Miners when Pinkerton detective James McParland accused him of conspiracy to murder former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg.
Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington.
Henning Elof Sjöström (13 May 1922 – 16 October 2011) was a Swedish defense attorney, and regarded as Sweden's first celebrity lawyer due to his high-profile cases.
 Sjöström was the attorney for Kurt Haijby during the Haijby affair, in which Haijby was accused of blackmailing Swedish King Gustav V.
Sigmund Zeisler (1860-1931) was a German-Jewish U.S. attorney born in Austria and known for his defense of radicals in Chicago in the 1880s.
 His wife was the famed concert pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.
Richard Allensworth Jewell (born Richard White; December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American police officer and security guard.
 While working as a security guard for AT&T, he became known in connection with the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
 Discovering a backpack filled with three pipe bombs on the park grounds, Jewell alerted police and helped to evacuate the area before the bomb exploded, saving many people from injury or death.
 Initially hailed by the media as a hero, Jewell was later considered a suspect.
 Jewell's case is considered an example of the damage that can be done by reporting based on unreliable or incomplete information.

Question: Where was the attorney born who defended the accused who was intially regarded as a hero?
Answer: Raleigh, North Carolina