with interest in high profile cases. i remember feeling a very strong sense that things that happened in john s trial were just fundamentally unfair. banks and cooney went to meet their new client. the first time i met john thompson was at the louisiana state penitentiary at angola. and frankly, we had a bit of a hard time communicating. didn t know nothing about new orleans and we had a criminal justice system here that locked up more people in our state penitentiary. so first thing i asked them is, do you really understand what you re up against? neither michael or i had any idea in 1988 that we d spend the next quarter century working with john thompson. michael and gordon began preparing an appeal.
then you sending me some lawyers saying they re going to represent me. come on, get real. gordon and i normally represent big companies in employment litigation and trade secret litigation, but this is my first case in criminal case litigation. michael brajss and banks and gordon cooney will interest in high profile cases. i remember feeling a very strong sense that things that happened in john s trial were just fundamentally unfair. banks and cooney wednesday to meet their new client. the first time i met john thompson was at the louisiana state penitentiary at aarngola.
gordon and i normally represent big companies with litigation, trade secret litigation but this was my first case representing a criminal defendant. michael banks and gordon cooney were high powered corporate lawyers with interest in pro bono cases. the case itself did not suggest innocence. there was nothing we read that caused us to say, wow, this guy didn t do it. i was skeptical of his innocence, but i remember feeling a very strong sense from reading john s file that things that happened in john s trial were just fundamentally unfair. banks and cooney went to meet their new client. the first time i met john thompson was at the louisiana state penitentiary at angola and frankly, we had a bit of a hard time communicating. he knew nothing about new orleans and the criminal justice system here that locked up more people than our state
secret litigation, but this was my first case representing a criminal defendant. michael banks and gordon cooney were high powered corporate lawyers with an interest in pro bono cases. the case itself did not suggest innocence. there was nothing we read that caused us to say, wow! this guy didn t do it. i was skeptical of his innocence. but i remember feeling a very strong sense from reading john s file that things that happened in john s trial were just fundamentally unfair. banks and cooney went to meat their new client. the first time i met john thompson was at the louisiana state penitentiary at angola. frankly, we had a bit of a hard time communicating. they didn t know nothing about new orleans. we had a criminal justice system that locked up more people than our state pen tenry could hold. the first thing i asked them, do you really understand what you re up against? neither michael or i had any