Queried about understanding of ‘deep intellectual stuff,’ jurors quickly convict disbarred lawyer
By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14
A disbarred lawyer who represented himself at his shoplifting trial was unable to persuade jurors with an emotional closing argument that quoted the Bible and Teddy Roosevelt. Jurors in Roanoke, Va., deliberated for just under a half-hour Tuesday before convicting Owaiian Jones of petit larceny and obtaining money under false…