{"id":1467,"date":"2016-07-21T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2018-05-09T03:21:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T10:21:13","slug":"wrongfully-convicted-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wrongfully-convicted-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"At 17 He Was Wrongfully Convicted And Sentenced To 28 Years. Now He&#8217;s A New York City Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From an article on Sunny Skyz:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Adams, who at age 17 was sentenced to 28 years in prison for an alleged rape he didn&#8217;t commit and went to law school after being exonerated, is beginning law practice in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Sprung from prison through efforts by the the Wisconsin Innocence Project, Adams entered Loyola University Law School and graduated last year. His wife took a job in New York City, and Adams got a job there as a post-conviction litigation fellow with the Innocence Project there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I put my mind to it. I put my work behind it. I put God first, and now look at me,&#8221; Adams told <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2016\/07\/18\/wrongly-convicted-chicagoan-sworn-in-as-lawyer-in-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adams told the ABA Journal in last year&#8217;s feature that he had become such an effective jailhouse lawyer helping other inmates in prison that he was deemed a security threat and moved from a maximum security prison in Wisconsin to a supermax facility, where privileges were more limited.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, he looked back with understandable pride on his swearing-in as an attorney in the Empire State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It should be a lesson to all those who have obstacles to overcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nd1EwYW8N6M?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/1732\/At-17-He-Was-Wrongfully-Convicted-And-Sentenced-To-28-Years-Now-He-s-A-New-York-City-Lawyer\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article on Sunny Skyz: Jarrett Adams, who at age 17 was sentenced to 28 years in prison for an alleged rape he didn&#8217;t commit and went to law school after being exonerated, is beginning law practice in New York City. Sprung from prison through efforts by the the Wisconsin Innocence Project, Adams entered&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}