urt and false pretenses. He represented himself at trial, was convicted and sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison. The court appointed a lawyer named Monroe Freedman to argue his appeal. Judge Bazelon invited me to watch the oral argument. I was blown away by Freedman’s eloquence, erudition, command of the record

e leading experts with 09:44:33 24 whom you've conferred? 25 A. The expert I conferred with initially was 09:44:37 EFTA00601169 17 1 Dean Monroe Freedman of the Hofstra law school who 2 had been my kind of ethical guru for my entire 3 career. I spent an extensive amount of time with 4 him conferr