The story of Isaac Wright Jr is another inspiring story that will teach you that; bad situations are the times to learn better ways to make your life better than it was before.
Wright decided to make lemonades out of the lemons that people threw at him, he even helped many inmates to get lighter sentences and some gained their freedom while he was still in jail.
In the year 1991, Wright was tried in a Somerset County courtroom, and he was convicted under the Jersey drug kingpin law. Wright started representing himself during trial while he was serving a life sentence in prison. He continued to study law and oversee his own appeal, although he didn’t have any certification yet. Over the next couple of years, Wright worked as a prison paralegal and won the freedom and reduced sentences of over 20 inmates, many that were serving life sentences. Some of his legal arguments were put into law, which is now a standard that they follow in court.
Attorney Gilbert G. Miller, who is the assistant Somerset County Prosecutor that was appointed to oppose Wright’s appeal and other court actions, said that: Mr Wright is a highly intelligent person, he also said that he is very impressed with Mr Wright’s ability as a legal strategist. Mr Wright developed his own legal strategy, which he used to help many fellow inmates gain their freedom.
During his 1996 court hearing, Weight cross examined detective James Dugan, and somehow convinced Dugan to break the code of silence and confess to police misconduct during his case. Dugan’s confession opened many revelations of wide and systematic misconduct and cover up in Mr Wright’s case. This whole new revelations pointed accusing fingers specifically to the Somerset head county prosecutor who goes by the name of Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr.
Bissel was fingered as being the mastermind of the whole misconduct. He was the person that directed the police officers to falsify their police reports, while he personally dictated the false testimony of the witnesses and made secret deals with attorneys to convince their clients to provide false testimonies to jurors, saying that Wright was their drug boss, these people also plead guilty to face lighter jail terms. The truth is that, none of those people ever stepped foot in jail, as they were smuggled out after the sentencing was done.
Judge Michael Imbriani who oversaw Wright’s trial, faced the full wrath of the law. He was removed from office and sent to prison for theft charges.
After Bissel heard about Dugan’s confession on the news, he ran into hiding. When he heard the police were trying to kick down his room door at a Las Vegas Hotel, he shot himself in the head and died of bullet wounds.
Wright was dismissed of all charges after spending seven years in Jail. He spent another seven years to pursue his law degree and got an undergraduate degree in the year 2002. He started attending law school in 2005 and graduated from Saint Thomas University of Law in 2007.
The law school renamed their cafetaria in honour of him. Wright passed the New Jersey Bar in 2008 and spent the next 9 years under investigation by the new Jersey Bar committee on character, before the was granted admission to Bar by New Jersey Supreme court on the 27th of September, 2017, where he was officially sworn in as a licenced attorney.
Pain and revenge would have wasted Wright’s years in jail, but God had bigger and for him, and he was smart enough to detect it and follow the direction that God was taking him to.
God can never be wrong, you just need to find out his plans for you.
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