For 26 years, the author maintained a law practice. He became an attorney, at age 36, the hard way - - by working his way through law school while holding down a full-time job as an avionics technician and working part-time at a motorcycle shop. Back in 1980’s Georgia, most attorneys got their start by signing up to represent individuals on the indigent list. Our Constitution states that no one who is charged with a crime and faces substantial jail time will be denied an attorney. If the accused cannot afford an attorney, the state will provide legal representation. Except for large cities, public defenders were almost unheard of, so legal representation came from members of the Bar. The author represented well over 200 criminal defendants dFor 26 years, the author maintained a law practice. He became an attorney, at age 36, the hard way - - by working his way through law school while holding down a full-time job as an avionics technician and working part-time at a motorcycle shop. Back in 1980’s Georgia, most attorneys got their start by signing up to represent individuals on the indigent list. Our Constitution states that no one who is charged with a crime and faces substantial jail time will be denied an attorney. If the accused cannot afford an attorney, the state will provide legal representation. Except for large cities, public defenders were almost unheard of, so legal representation came from members of the Bar. The author represented well over 200 criminal defendants during his career, while also handling adoptions, divorces, bankruptcies, wills, personal injury and various other cases. Prior to becoming an attorney, he was a farmer, a store clerk, part-owner of an automobile salvage yard, a draftsman, an electronics technician, a motorcycle mechanic, a professional welder, a board operator at a TV station, a customer-relations representative for a photocopy company, and a management trainee for a well-known insurance company. Hobbies have included hunting, boating, flying ultralight airplanes, roller and ice skating, motorcycles, bowling, antique automobiles, scuba diving, weightlifting, jogging, softball, hypnosis, and traveling. The author has written numerous newspaper articles, been published nationally, and has written several novels. With the exception of a few humorous scenes, the author strived to make prison and the practice of law as realistic as possible. Now retired, he lives on a lake in Georgia. ...more
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HOAX: Leftists Fall For Parody Story About Trump Watching 'The Gorilla Channel' 17 Hours Per Day ByBEN SHAPIRO @benshapiro January 5, 2018 On Thursday evening, Twitter account @pixelatedboat tweeted out a parody segment supposedly lifted from Michael Wolff’s new bestselling White House gossip book Fire and Fury. Here’s the hilarious segment: There was only one problem. People took the story seriously.
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