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Why You Need a Lawyer in Your Corner

By Steven Rodriguez

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“I’m a bright, capable and creative-enough guy. I’m someone accustomed to being useful to society,” the man lamented to an Ohio newspaper columnist. Once a successful physician, husband and father, this man was scouring the want ads, hoping to find a job. It is an activity that has consumed his waking hours with increasing frustration every day since his parole from and Ohio state prison more than a year ago. “I’ve applied for every job I could,” said the man. “Five hundred, easy. But when you have a nine-year gap in your employment record, there is no way to make that look good.” He’s had a few interviews, but his prison record is a formidable roadblock. “Who would you hire?” he asks, if you could choose between an ex-con and anyone else? I picked up the Columbus Dispatch while traveling through Ohio over the holidays and was moved by columnist Mike Harden’s interview with a once vibrant, talented and skilled man who now struggles to scratch out the barest of existences...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).