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Ehrlichman said his fellow inmates' calls to the lawyers who had defended them in court were not returned, and they faced parole boards without the counsel of attorneys.
"Don't drop him at the door of the parole hearing, he badly needs your help at this point of the process," Ehrlichman said, adding, "This is why I come to law schools, to deliver these sermonettes. You don't learn about this in your criminal law classes."
Ehrlichman described the parole officers at his minimum-security prison as "old hacks who had never studied law." He said the parole officers based their decisions on prisoners' records based on an interview with the prisoner, unaided by an attorney.
The record, according to Ehrlichman, contains incriminating material, and he cited a case where a prisoner wasn't given parole because he admitted in the interview to having used narcotics sometime in his past.
But Kunen quickly--and probably inadvertently--dispells the myth of public defenders as ethical gods. "Deception is not deceit," Kunen says, "Lawyers and magicians practice deception. Dishonest people practice deceit." With that said, Kunen brazenly describes a client's parole status at a sentencing hearing. All of which proves Kunen...