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Public Interest

May 19, 2010

Turning a Corner

Frankie Guzman has come a long way to become a student at UCLA School of Law.

By Sara Randazzo

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Francis "Frankie" Guzman learned at an early age what it means to be discriminated against. In juvenile hall for armed robbery at age 15, Guzman watched as two young white women who robbed a pizza joint at gunpoint got off with probation after two weeks in jail. With a nearly identical crime, Guzman, a Mexican American, waited eight months to hear his sentence - and got 15 years in prison...

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