Joseph Nérette (; April 9, 1924 – April 29, 2007) was a

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an judge and

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. He served as the provisional president of Haiti between 1991 and 1992, part of a period in which real political authority rested with the military junta headed by

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and

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. Nérette got his law degree in 1950. He served as substitute prosecutor in Port-au-Prince from 1971 to 1978. He was an appeals court judge from 1978 until 1988, when he was appointed to the

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by a military government. He died of lung cancer in

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on April 29, 2007, aged 83.

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