Years ago circa the vintage of Michelle Roberts esq and Kim Taylor I had occasion to be sitting in federal court watching a judge look with incredulity at counsel for the District of Columbia in a cash case. As you might guess the public defender service endlessly refers out cah cases it is not allowed to undertake. The plaintiff had multiple sclerosis, received hot showers, was not moved as needed and was otherwise not treated well. He was a run of the mill felon, nonviolent, no children involved etc. the district was put on notice by the judge that it was going to pay if the fools went to trial.
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What do you think might be done to better treat those in the d. Jail et with autoimmune diseases?
If you cannot get them out help them suffer less and the district reduce its costs? What a horrible combination?
Respond on this blog if you wish to do so.
1. MICHELE ROBERTS
Shea & Gardner
MICHELE ROBERTS MAY NOT HAVE REPRESENTED ANY presidents, but she's built a reputation as the finest pure trial lawyer in Washington–magic with juries, loved by judges, feared by opposing counsel. For years she has been an independent operator, though big firms have used her as a secret weapon, bringing her in at the 11th hour to argue their cases before a jury. The simple act of hiring her often results in settlement. The uptown bar has a phrase for it: "Roberts to the rescue." Among the recently rescued was Charles Bakaly, an associate of Kenneth Starr's charged with improperly leaking confidential documents. Thanks to Roberts, he was exonerated at trial.
Roberts is a native of the Bronx whose mother, a domestic worker, whiled away her free time at the courthouse watching trials. That, and Roberts's own belief that her brothers' friends kept going away for years at a time because there were no good lawyers to help them, inspired Roberts to become a lawyer. She won a scholarship to Wesleyan University and attended law school at the University of California's prestigious Boalt Hall. She spent eight years in the DC public defender's office before opening her own practice representing everyone from slumlords to accused murderers. Following the Bakaly victory, Roberts moved uptown to join Shea & Gardner, a tony firm on Massachusetts Avenue, where she will be renting her skills to a higher class of criminal. In time she plans to get more involved in profitable corporate litigation.
Does she have any second thoughts about working for corporate types? "I've been defending the worst of the worst for a long time," she says. "That doesn't trouble me at all."
Shon Hopwood
Shon Robert Hopwood (born June 11, 1975) is an American appellate lawyer and graduate teaching fellow with Georgetown University Law Center's Appellate Litigation Clinic. Hopwood became well-known as a jailhouse lawyer who served time in prison for bank robbery. While in prison, he started spending time in the law library, and became an accomplished United States Supreme Court practitioner by the time he left in 2008.[1]
Shon Hopwood
Shon Robert Hopwood (born June 11, 1975) is an American appellate lawyer and graduate teaching fellow with Georgetown University Law Center's Appellate Litigation Clinic. Hopwood became well-known as a jailhouse lawyer who served time in prison for bank robbery. While in prison, he started spending time in the law library, and became an accomplished United States Supreme Court practitioner by the time he left in 2008.[1]
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