I knew a casino hustler in the late nineties that did 13 years in San Quentin for manslaughter. He became a jail house lawyer. He said he studied the law books at Quentin because jail house lawyers were protected. They would kill anyone that fucked with a jail house lawyer.
He said he got a lot of guys out of prison. He told me about the appeal process where he would file an appeal then six months or a year later they would get back to him and say he filed in the wrong jurisdiction. Then he would file in the other jurisdiction and six months or a year later they would say the same thing, wrong jurisdiction.
So he started filing the same appeal in multiple jurisdictions at the same time. He said it got results and other jail house lawyers plus real lawyers started doing the same thing.
He said he got so many guys out of prison that he was invited to leave the state when his sentence was up.





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