A jailbird who was so outraged over what he felt was his lawyer’s shoddy representation of him in court sued the attorney — but he couldn’t remember the guy’s name.
So the fuming felon filed a federal suit against “I Don’t Know My Lawyer’s Name†for the truly astounding sum of “one houndred dollarys†in damages.
Some portions of Wilfredo Rodena’s self-filed suit against “I don’t know†are incomprehensible, but he filed the action as part of a civil-rights bid to overturn his 1989 conviction for kidnapping a young woman at knife point.
In his Manhattan federal court filing, Rodena claimed that “I don’t know†and he did “not fight for me at all. He did not said one word in my behelf.â€
The suit also names Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson — whose name Rodena spelled correctly — and says, “the stenographer is envoled to. But I don’t no her name.”
Instead of typing, Rodena said, “All she did was Smirk at me. And kept her fingers over the machine, and never typed one letter.”
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After 20 plus years in the prison library, he gets his jailhouse degree.
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