{"id":409,"date":"2010-02-13T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T22:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2010-02-13T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T22:40:18","slug":"my-nomination-for-most-admirable-living-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"My nomination for Most Admirable Living Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=406\">I held up Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)<\/a> as the historical figure who most exemplifies my own highest aspirations as a lawyer: to stand up for other people&#8217;s natural rights as well as my own, without undue regard for personal welfare, in the teeth of the moneyed establishment, popular prejudice, and politician-made &#8220;law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who today best exemplifies this ideal? <a href=\"http:\/\/normpattis.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/heads-rollin-at-tlc-what-did-you-expect.html\">Not Gerry Spence<\/a>. IMHO, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pier5law.com\/Tony-Serra.htm\">J. Tony Serra<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegascitylife.com\/articles\/2004\/06\/16\/cover_story\/cover.txt\">high-powered criminal defense attorney<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawcrossing.com\/article\/4209\/The-Anti-Attorney-Attorney-Criminal-Defense-Lawyer-Tony-Serra\/\">pauper<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwtrcc.org\/mtap07\/mtap0807.html#jail\">scofflaw<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.november.org\/stayinfo\/breaking07\/TonySerra.html\">ex-con<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I held up Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) as the historical figure who most exemplifies my own highest aspirations as a lawyer: to stand up for other people&#8217;s natural rights as well as my own, without undue regard for personal welfare, in the teeth of the moneyed establishment, popular prejudice, and politician-made &#8220;law.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}