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Mark Sisti, 61, grew up in Buffalo, N.Y., and attended Canisius College in Buffalo. He moved to New Hampshire as a student of Franklin Pierce Law Center, now the UNH School of Law and has been a criminal defense lawyer in New Hampshire for more than 30 years.
With his former law partner, Paul Twomey, he defended Pamela Smart, the media services coordinator at Winnacunnet High School who was convicted in 1991 of conspiring with students for the murder of her husband, Gregory Smart.
Sisti is currently defending Anthony Barnaby, who was extradited from Canada in May to face a fourth trial - following three hung juries - on the charge of murdering two women in Nashua.
* Q. When did you decide that you wanted to be a lawyer?
A. I got a really good interest in it when I was in a neighborhood that was primarily Italian in the west side of Buffalo. The guy that was looked up to in the neighborhood was the local lawyer - Antonio Scholino. He was the guy who took care of everybody, and he was the guy in the neighborhood who took care of business.