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Ex-Con Denied Admission To AZ Bar
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2006, page 35
The Arizona Supreme Court has upheld the State Committee on Character and Fitness (Committee) denial of a convicted murderer's application for admission to the State Bar.
James Hamm served over 17 years in the Arizona prison system for a first degree murder he committed near Tucson in 1974. By the ...
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