![]() It`s been quite a while since I practiced law, so it`s been very good for me.''įriedland wrote to Public Advocate Alfred Slocum, who runs the state`s public defender program. ![]() I could empty this place of about 25 to 30 percent of the prisoners if I had access to the courts and to proper stenographers. ''I`m trying to do something for these people who can`t do anything for themselves and it`s a. ''They don`t know about making applications for bail or letting their families know they are in jail,'' Friedland said. ![]() In another case the wrong twin brother was in prison. In one case, a computer made an error, and a man with no criminal record was locked up. Some don`t know what charges have been made against them. Some of the inmates have been in prison for three months without seeing a lawyer, he said. ''It`s a disgrace, the administration of criminal justice for the poor,'' he said. ![]() I`ve been working hard trying to solve other people`s problems. I`ve been doing a lot of helpful things for people. He`s very content.''įriedland agreed: ''My spirits are very, very good. I really think he`s found salvation for himself. He`s very much in search of the depth of God. ''David is a Jew, but he has found Jesus Christ. ''I would say he`s born again,'' said cell mate Rains, 37. Maybe my inner vision had improved so much that my outer vision improved.'' ''I suddenly noticed I was reading without glasses and amazingly, my eyesight had improved. ''I woke up the following morning and felt fantastic,'' Friedland said. Paul`s writings to the Corinthians in the New Testament. One night at the Trenton prison, he said, he spent much of the night praying and meditating after listening to his cell mate read from St. Your degree of dedication is different.'' You could do the same things, but differently. Now I know your obligation is not to yourself but to God and to others. I was always for self-advancement, as a politician and as a lawyer. ''My own motivation was always self-directed. Jail brings that point to you with alarming speed. ''If you had a different set of values along the path, you wouldn`t be in trouble. ''I could have done so much more.'' His values were misplaced, he said. ''I regret the many years I wasted in the legislature,'' Friedland said. Kean for the Assembly speaker`s seat, a job that cemented Kean`s power in preparation for his candidacy for governor. In the Assembly, the Democrat made both friends and enemies when he crossed the aisle to back Republican Thomas H. Friedland, whose father, Jacob, was a state senator from 1938 until 1949, was elected to the state Senate in 1977 after serving eight years in the Assembly. A debater and lawyer, Friedland made his mark in New Jersey politics in 1964 when, at 26, he filed a class-action suit that challenged the way the state legislature`s districts were apportioned. Prison, Friedland said, has given him a chance to reevaluate his life. I`m like a whirlwind of energy, even in here.'' All are free pending appeals.įriedland, charming and talkative, said he is happy in prison: ''If my life ended today, I would be content. ''I made a lot of mistakes, and I did a lot of things I think were wrong, whether or not they were in violation of the statutes.'' His codefendants in that case-two union trustees, the union`s lawyer and Friedland`s partner, former New Jersey Assemblyman Joseph Higgins- have received four to eight years in prison. ''I`m innocent of the charges they brought against me, and I have a good defense to the charges,'' he said. If convicted in connection with a more-recent, 90-count indictment against him alleging that he defrauded the same union in the mid-1980s, Friedland would face more than 20 years in prison. Friedland, 50, formerly of Jersey City, is serving a seven-year sentence in connection with a 1980 conviction for defrauding Local 701 of the Teamsters union in New Brunswick. I lived on the banks of a river where lions walked by and hippos screamed in the night.'' But I`ve slept on beaches and been on islands where there is no water and you can`t get clean. I`ve eaten in some of the best restaurants in the world. ''He sits there with his big cigar in his mouth,'' Faulks said.
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