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Former Prisoners Become Attorneys: From Breaking the Law to Practicing Law

Loaded on Feb. 4, 2019 by Christopher Zoukis published in Prison Legal News February, 2019, page 1
Filed under: Post-release, ex-offender, re-entry, jobs. Location: United States of America.

by Christopher Zoukis

“A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client,” the old adage goes. But Isaac Wright, Jr. knew he was innocent, so he represented himself at his 1991 trial on charges under New Jersey’s “drug kingpin” law. Unsurprisingly, he was convicted and sentenced ...

 

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