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Oh come on, this is a gross understatement of what this man accomplished.
He didn’t just write the supreme court. He then testified to them. As his own lawyer, after failing in a similar attempt at his initial trial.
He got a unanimous 9-0 vote in his favor.
That trial freed two thousand unjustly imprisoned people. He then went on to have a proper trial for his original crime with an actual lawyer and got his fair innocent verdict.
This man singlehandedly reinforced one or two constitutional amendments, sealing a rather significant loophole, and almost no one knows about him.
Before he did this, it was possible to be denied a lawyer if you weren’t facing the possibility of the death penalty, as he was denied one. Now it’s not, and everyone who’s up for trial is entitled to a lawyer.
And I think that’s worth talking about.