A Lawyer’s Backstairs Journey Through the Criminal Justice System . . .
. . . or, “The impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.”
Two jails, eight prisons, five states, 30 cells, 7 dorms, 8 weeks in the hole, 1,682 days. ‘Lawyerguy’, ‘Bird’, ‘Ro-dog’, ‘Hate Monger’, ‘Red’, ‘Professor’, a half-dozen more nicknames. Six fights (5-0-1), a dozen confrontations, thousands of jump-shots, eight hundred students, tens of thousands of meals cooked, and hundreds of unsolicited clients – inmate and staff alike.
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Dennis Moore, (client#83)
From Part II, Pretrial, Chapter 4: Full Contact Chess. Dennis Moore would drop by ‘my table’ every once in a while during morning rec when no one else was nearby. He was an older Black guy who walked with a cane, was maybe 6 feet tall all straightened up – literally, not metaphorically, he was…
The ’26-1′ Rule (a parable)
A tale of men in power, arbitrarily creating, enforcing, uncreating rules – in 1978. In early March, just a few weeks after the Blizzard of ’78 decimated the I-95 Providence – Boston Corridor, the ECAC Hockey Tournament began. Back then, pre-Big East/Hockey East et.al., there was one league for the 16 or so Hockey teams…
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