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Convicted Sex Offender Now a Licensed Attorney in Washington State
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2023
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2023, page 13
A divided Washington Supreme Court beat back prejudice with a November 2022 decision admitting a convicted sex offender to the state bar. Zachary LeRoy Stevens was charged as a teenager with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor for sending child pornography to a detective posing as a 14-year-old ...
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