Attorney Ross Garber (right), sits next to an AIG executive during testimony before the Connecticut state legislature March 26.
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(AP) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is getting help from a Connecticut lawyer who represented that state's governor during a 2004 impeachment effort.
Sanford's attorneys this week released documents that include arguments by lawyer Ross Garber, who contends the case against Sanford doesn't meet the high standard for impeachment.
Garber is an ethics expert who represented the Connecticut governor's office when then-Gov. John G. Rowland faced an impeachment inquiry. Rowland resigned, pleaded guilty to a corruption charge and went to prison.
The first step in considering Sanford's impeachment begins Tuesday in Columbia when a legislative panel is to consider whether he was derelict in his duties by leaving the state in June to see his lover.
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