Denise Jackson said she trusted that any paperwork she was told to sign was necessary to litigate her personal injury claim when Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Willis W. Berry Jr. was representing her in a simple slip-and-fall case in 1993.
“I trusted him,” Jackson testified in the first day of trial in her fraud lawsuit against Berry. “He was the lawyer, not me. … He knows. I had no reason not to trust him or doubt his integrity as my attorney. … I trusted him and so I signed.”
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