Haller Jackson clerked for Judge
Alex Kozinski on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Jackson was widely seen as a brilliant thinker – he also clerked on the 5th Circuit and for two federal district judges – and Kozinski trusted his legal instincts.
So when Jackson told Kozinski that he was hoping to find someone to file a brief calling for en banc review of a Feb. 9 ruling by the 5th Circuit, Kozinski was interested – especially when Jackson told him that the case involved a warden Jackson knew from his imprisonment at Louisiana’s Angola state penitentiary.
Jackson is no longer a lawyer. He pleaded guilty in 2015 to computer solicitation of a minor and was sentenced to a five-year term, which he served at Angola. In prison, Jackson told me in a phone interview on Monday, he got to know