Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits. They're relegated to a permanent undercaste.
Copy QuoteI busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Copy Quote View & ShareOne of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
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