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Criminal

Apr. 13, 2012

Boy made good, now attorney gone bad

Isaac Guillen was a former gangbanger who turned his life around to defend society's undesirables. That is until he fell back into a criminal lifestyle. Now, his plea deal haunts the criminal defense bar.


By Gabe Friedman


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Isaac E. Guillen didn't have to work hard to gain acceptance from his colleagues in the criminal defense bar. Here was a former gangbanger who turned his life around to defend society's undesirables. His life seemed a TV-ready redemption story. He was certainly the last person fellow lawyers expected to see in shackles.


But then federal agents swooped in and arrested Guillen in ...

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