George Collins must have been one bright student to be given the honor to write for The American Law Review and later to argue in front of the Supreme Court.
Finding himself afoul of the law at a later date does not take away from his past good. You used the tried and untrue tactic of the leftist media...well, that is misdirection from the point at hand.
"George Collins must have been one bright student to be given the honor to write for The American Law Review and later to argue in front of the Supreme Court."
Well.... writing for a "law review" that was unrelated to any law school and that you paid to get your articles into was really no great accomplishment. Neither, by the way, is losing in front of the Supreme Court. Even you and I could pull that off.
But there is no doubt he was very bright. He was certainly bright enough to get his own chapter in the book,
Celebrated Criminal Cases in America.
The title of his chapter even says so:
"Attorney George D. Collins, the Brilliant Attorney, Who Committed Bigamy and Perjury - A Remarkable Case."
"Finding himself afoul of the law at a later date does not take away from his past good."
Neither does becoming Secretary of the California Bar Association take away from his past bad. But you sure seemed to think that detail was important to include.
I'm just trying to keep the record complete.
Of course... the only actual substantive issue is that his arguments had their day in court, and the US Supreme Court said, "You're wrong, Brilliant Attorney George D. Collins."
Funny how that works.