WHEN A DEKALB COUNTY judge refused to grant more than a 24-hour continuance in the drug-trafficking trial of Jerome D. Lee’s client, Lee unintentionally bought more time by getting himself thrown in jail.
Lee was held in contempt-and later in a holding cell-when he refused to participate in his client’s criminal trial, saying that ethically and professionally, he just couldn’t go forward. Lee, a 33-year-old graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School who left King & Spalding in 2002 to join a Roswell firm focused on representing Latino clients, says he was hit with two surprises just before a February 2006 trial date for his client, Esquel Casanova.
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