Man sent to jail, studied Law in jail and later prosecuted the Judge that wrongfully jailed him
When life rolls a hard side of the coin to you, what do you do? Do you acknowledge it as fate, or do you battle to see what’s on the opposite side of the coin. The Story of Issac Wright should train you never to withdraw, never surrender, consistently attempt again in any event, when life present it most noticeably terrible to you.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client,” the old adage goes. But Isaac Wright, Jr. knew he was innocent, so he represented himself at his 1991 trial on charges under New Jersey’s “drug kingpin” law. Unsurprisingly, he was convicted and sentenced to life for running one of New York City’s largest narcotics distribution networks.
Wright began teaching himself the law after he arrived in prison. When he appealed his conviction he represented himself again, this time winning a reversal of the kingpin charge. Yet he remained incarcerated on other convictions until 1996, when he was again in court and again served as his own attorney. Under Wright’s cross-examination, veteran police detective James Dugan confessed to his role in a scheme to frame Wright that was coordinated by Somerset County prosecutor Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr.
Dugan later pleaded guilty to official misconduct, while Wright’s trial judge, Michael Imbriani, went to prison on theft charges and Bissell killed himself when U.S. Marshals kicked in the door of a Nevada hotel room where he’d fled.
After spending over seven years in a maximum-security prison, Wright was exonerated and released. He then went to college and earned a law degree, graduating from St. Thomas University’s School of Law in 2007. He passed the New Jersey bar exam in 2008, then spent the next nine years fighting the bar’s Committee on Character before he was finally admitted by the state Supreme Court on September 27, 2017.
Presently an outlaw, Bissell crossed state lines and in the long run drove police to a Nevada lodging. As officials separated his entryway, Nicholas Bissell ended it all.
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